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...fourth-seeding would probably translate into a first round matchup with Brown and a semifinal contest with top-seed Slippery Rock. A third-seeding will probably match Harvard with Bucknell in first-round action...
...Crimson narrowly defeated Rutgers in their opening heat, while the Elis cruised in their first-round race. In the final, Harvard started strongly, but Yale had a three seat lead by the 500-meter mark. The Crimson then surged to take a narrow lead that they didn't relinquish...
Coming off of its first-round NCAA tournament victory over Johns Hopkins last year, the Princeton Tigers will also be vying for the nation's top spots. Even though they were the youngest team in the Ivies, the Tigers spent all of last season...
Rensselaer (17-9 overall, 12-6 ECAC) currently sits in fourth place in the league--the cutoff point for first-round home ice--and one win ahead of fifth-place Harvard (10-10-2, 10-6-2). An Engineers win would clinch a fourth-place finish (and home ice) for Rensselaer--assuming they beat the Big Green the next night--and would just about put the nail in the coffin for Crimson home-ice hopes...
...Crimson's fifth-place standing in the ECAC threatens to put the squad on the road for the ECAC playoffs, as only the top four teams in the league play first-round action at home...