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...said in a post-game press conference. “But from a coaching standpoint, I couldn’t be prouder of the way we performed.” The loss to the Tigers left Harvard in 15th place in USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings (PWR), a system based on a formula that attempts to mimic the logic of the NCAA selection committee. With at least two of the 16 NCAA berths to be awarded to teams outside the PWR’s top 25, the Crimson was unlikely to receive an at-large bid and needed...
...Crimson’s blistering streak has propelled the team back into NCAA Tournament discussion, albeit very much as a bubble team. Harvard is currently in a tie for 16th in USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings (PWR), a system that tries to predict teams’ potential to make it to the Dance. Although 16 teams will be selected for the Tournament, at least two automatic bids will be doled out to teams that currently stand outside of the PWR’s top 16, leaving the Crimson on the outside looking in. While it?...
...pairwise rankings (PWR), finalized one night earlier, had forecast a Harvard trip to Amherst against UNH, but had also projected Boston College and Mercyhurst as the two teams most likely to accompany them to the Mullins Center. But according to Wayne Dean, the tournament committee chair, Denver was seen as more deserving of the second overall seed than Colorado College—No. 2 in the PWR—a subjective swap that skewed the predictions slightly...
Weighing in on the weekend ahead, though, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 dismissed suggestions that the makeup of the strict-PWR bracket would have been preferable to the final version...
Despite its long weekend, the Crimson actually moved up a spot and into seventh in the pairwise rankings (PWR), used to forecast NCAA tournament invitees, while solidifying its hold on several of the head-to-head comparisons that determine precisely where a team falls among other teams under consideration...