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Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

Fish:
I think you have had to many sleepless nights in the shanty!! There be Zero Pool B bids this year. Pool C is the only route for Utica . And if you have not figured it out there are 3 Poo
l C bids available.
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

NUProf said:
I've thought about this in regard to all D3 sports and wondered what the impact would be. The source of Pool C bids is in the excess of teams in Pool A conferences above the 6.5 teams per slot NCAA mandate. 7 is too close to 6.5 for many at large bids to be created when leagues tend to hover right at the minimums. Making the minimum for a bid 8 instead of 7 would make sense, but there is another factor - you now throw all of the 7 team conferences into Pool B and that could actually end us right back in the same place. Non-winners in Pool A conferences wouldn't get to "swim" in Pool B.
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Pardon my ignorance but what is Pool B? It doesn't seem to exist now. I read somewhere else on this thread that you can't cure stupid, but I think you can cure ignorance.
 
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petrietodonovan said:
Pardon my ignorance but what is Pool B? It doesn't seem to exist now. I read somewhere else on this thread that you can't cure stupid, but I think you can cure ignorance.
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There is always a Pool B, there just isn't always any available berths for them.

Pool B consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification.
 
petrietodonovan said:
Pardon my ignorance but what is Pool B? It doesn't seem to exist now. I read somewhere else on this thread that you can't cure stupid, but I think you can cure ignorance.
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Pool B is reserved for independents and members of conferences that don't get auto bids. There is only the ECAC West in that category this year. Not enough teams to create a spot in the field. The "other site" has all the details in the "Bracketology" series.
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

NUProf said:
Pool B is reserved for independents and members of conferences that don't get auto bids. There is only the ECAC West in that category this year. Not enough teams to create a spot in the field. The "other site" has all the details in the "Bracketology" series.
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OK, so that's where I dropped the ball *this* time... I take it that there has to be some minimum number of teams that qualify for that pool. How many would that be?

(Why so? is another question entirely, but I gave up on making any intuitive sense of the D-3 process years ago.)
 
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Fishman'81 said:
OK, so that's where I dropped the ball *this* time... I take it that there has to be some minimum number of teams that qualify for that pool. How many would that be?

(Why so? is another question entirely, but I gave up on making any intuitive sense of the D-3 process years ago.)
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Basically, there must be as many teams-per-bid in Pool B as there are in Pool A, the idea being that you don't want to make it more advantageous to be an independent than to actually play in a conference. If i told you that you could go play in a 5-team league and try to beat those other 4 teams to get into the NCAAs, or you could go play in a 10-team league and have 9 teams standing between you and the tournament... which would you choose, given only that information?
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

The smaller conference, in most cases... But probably not the ECAC-West, available AQ or not. (The answer cuts both ways in D-3, where such disparity exists.)

Thanks for the input, though. It's much appreciated. I'm guessing that I'm not alone in my ignorance here.
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

Fishman'81 said:
The smaller conference, in most cases... But probably not the ECAC-West, available AQ or not. (The answer cuts both ways in D-3, where such disparity exists.)

Thanks for the input, though. It's much appreciated. I'm guessing that I'm not alone in my ignorance here.
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Go to d3hockey.com

Click on News, then bracketology. It is all explained in very clear terms there. You don't need to continue to live in ignorance.

My career has been built on stamping out ignorance, and you may find yourself enlightened.

You can also link here directly:

http://www.d3hockey.com/bracketology/men/12-13/2013-selection-process
 
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