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...this season, more than ever, a larger playoff system would be the ideal way to avoid the controversy of leaving teams out of the title chase, as happened to Harvard in 2000, one year after capturing the national championship...
...Which brings me to the raison d?etre for this letter from Orlando. The last time I did one of these minor-key adventure series in this electronic space was last fall, when I embarked upon a mission to witness the epic Sox-Yanks playoff series from the stands, and write about the wild ride for Time.com. Some readers got a kick out of the ferociously biased account; some felt I was just another lame, pathetic loser. In any event, when I saw the kid in the Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph...
...addition to scheduling concerns, issues to be discussed include academic profile, location, strength of program and ramifications to the current 12-team, three-weekend playoff structure that ECAC commissioner Phil Buttafuoco said has been “received very well” by the league’s member schools...
...same is true for Yale’s travel partner Brown, but the Bears’ sweep of the Bulldogs puts them in slightly better shape heading down the stretch. With only two conference losses, Brown controls its own destiny and can force at least a playoff if it wins...
That victory over Cornell earned the Crimson—who had stumbled into the playoffs with a 2-8-1 record in the final 11 games—a third straight overtime playoff win, an improbable ECAC title, and the team’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in almost a decade...