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Combine one part playoff hockey, one part a young team with nothing to lose, and one part an opponent that may have forgotten what it feels like to lose...
...Clarkson is a good team,” head coach Katey Stone said. “They’re hard working, They have a good goaltender, and it’s playoff hockey. It’s really different hockey—there’s a lot more juice...
Unlike the I-AA football playoff issue, the idea of a conference tourney, like the ones held by the other 30 conferences in Division I basketball elicits a wide variety of highly emotional responses from fans, coaches and athletic directors around the league that are discordant, at best...
Let’s go even further. What if three teams are tied with 11-3 records? Most of the league cheered that result in 2002, when Penn, Princeton, and Yale each finished the season with that exact record. The excitement of the playoff atmosphere consumed the league. But what if Penn had found an extra point against Columbia during the league’s opening weekend. Likewise, what if Princeton had fallen to the Lions 49-48 on the final weekend of the season, rather than taking the contest by the same margin. It’s not hard...
Under one set of “lucky” circumstances, the league is graced with the spectacle that is a postseason playoff. Under another, Penn is deemed the most worthy team at 12-2, and Yale and Princeton are sent home. Under both, the Quakers eventually move on to the Big Dance...