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...odds that North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, and Memphis—the four top-ranked teams in the country—would all make it to the championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...
...Mary’s won the championship final...
...Princeton’s Mark Magnowski slotted an empty-netter with less than two minutes remaining in the ECAC championship game, he may as well have been slamming his stick in the collective gut of the Harvard men’s hockey team. With a 4-1 victory over the No. 16 Crimson (17-14-4) on March 22 at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., the No. 15 Tigers (22-13-0) ended Harvard’s season and extended their own, clinching the ECAC tournament title and the accompanying NCAA bid. While Princeton lost...
...last 10 games, one could certainly say that the No. 16 Harvard (17-13-4) men’s hockey team is on a roll. Its latest victory came March 21, as the Crimson rolled over archrival No. 20 Cornell (19-14-4) in the semifinals of the ECAC championship tournament. “This is great,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said in a postgame press conference. “But our guys came here with one thing in mind, and that’s to win the ECAC.” Despite...
...become apparent that in the world of college wrestling, the Big Ten spells trouble.Iowa, Ohio State, and Penn State claimed the top three spots last weekend at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo., leading a Big Ten group that overwhelmed the field with 10 teams in the top 17.Sending only two grapplers to the tournament, the Harvard squad had little interest in the team competition. But freshman Corey Jantzen (141 lbs) and sophomore J.P. O’Connor (149) felt the sting of the dominant conference, both falling to Big Ten opponents.O’Connor, ranked third...