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The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the eight team NCAA Tournament which starts the following weekend. Altogether, four Eastern teams will advance, the ECAC and Hockey East tournament champions and two others.
With a performance like last night's, however, the Tigers deserve to be the champions. Of the five events, Princeton swimmers won three. And the first two were the killers.
In the latest WMEB/CHSB poll, North Dakota (32-7) is the unanimous top choice, followed by Boston College (25-7), Minnesota (30-9-1) and Michigan State (29-9-2). Last year's national champions, the Spartans, are tied with the Crimson in that fourth slot.
But the Bruins are the defending Eastern champions, and for a good reason. While dual meets can be decided by a few talented athletes, a multi-team championship favors depth instead. Brown's strength lies in its large core of quality swimmers, as seen in last year's Easterns, when...
Sophomores Jenny Greene and Janice Sweetser both earned titles in last year's Eastern meet and will be looking to repeat as champions. Greene finished on top in the three-meter diving competition in '86, and grabbed a fourth-place finish on the one-meter board.