Scores 11/22/11 (The games everyone foget about)

[NUProf]

Re: Scores 11/22/11 (The games everyone foget about)

IF and I don't think the smoke filled room will permit it to happen, but IF the ECAC-W gets left out, look for them to get to the magic 7 very quickly.

Getting to 7 might get them back into Pool B

It shouldn't, but the NCAA used creative math this year to expand the women's tournament to 8 teams - they didn't follow the handbook version of what to round to determine the number of teams in the field. By my arithmetic they are still two teams short. They are supposed to multiply the size of the field by 6.5, and truncate to determine the cut off number. That means for an 8 team field the women need 52 teams.

That's not how the Men's field got to 11 when it did. We were sitting on 70 teams and a field of 10, and then added one more (Wesfield?) to get to 71 that's when the field went up to 11. Fortunately enough at about the same time we lost LVC, we picked up UNE. When we had 70 teams, 70/6.5 = 10.8 that should have been enough for 11 teams if the process used for the women's field was used, but it wasn't. If they want to be creative on Pool B, I think that 7 teams is at least half the Pool A access ratio (Number of teams in Pool A conferences divided by number of Pool A slots), which would mean when they divide the number of Pool B teams by the access ratio, it would round to 1

 

[PSUChamps2001]

The ECAC West is not doing itself any favors so far with the first year without a Pool B bid to fall back on.

Elmira gets stomped by Oswego twice....Hobart loses to Cortland...Manhattanville loses to WNEU.

But their the best conference ......tic

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

Re: Scores 11/22/11 (The games everyone foget about)

But their the best conference ......tic

they are or they're*

In the last five or so years yes, I think the ECAC W's OOC record speaks for itself on proving that top to bottom it was the best conference. Granted, they only got 1 NC with Neumann. But, still...we're talking about overall strength of conference and not riding on the coattails of every conference's elite one or two like the ECAC East, NESCAC, NCHA, and SUNYAC do/did.

This year, the ECAC W looks collectively down a little bit as Hobart and Manhttanville seem to be down a bit.

 

[joecct]

Re: Scores 11/22/11 (The games everyone foget about)

Getting to 7 might get them back into Pool B

It shouldn't, but the NCAA used creative math this year to expand the women's tournament to 8 teams - they didn't follow the handbook version of what to round to determine the number of teams in the field. By my arithmetic they are still two teams short. They are supposed to multiply the size of the field by 6.5, and truncate to determine the cut off number. That means for an 8 team field the women need 52 teams.

That's not how the Men's field got to 11 when it did. We were sitting on 70 teams and a field of 10, and then added one more (Wesfield?) to get to 71 that's when the field went up to 11. Fortunately enough at about the same time we lost LVC, we picked up UNE. When we had 70 teams, 70/6.5 = 10.8 that should have been enough for 11 teams if the process used for the women's field was used, but it wasn't. If they want to be creative on Pool B, I think that 7 teams is at least half the Pool A access ratio (Number of teams in Pool A conferences divided by number of Pool A slots), which would mean when they divide the number of Pool B teams by the access ratio, it would round to 1

Prof

Great reasoning, but doesn't 7 get them a Pool A bid?

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

Re: Scores 11/22/11 (The games everyone foget about)

Prof

Great reasoning, but doesn't 7 get them a Pool A bid?

After the one-year probation period, yes I believe it does. But, I think Pool B can go into effect immediately? That might be what Prof is referring to?