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...tournament snub came as a huge surprise to Harvard because it had been ranked ahead of Rhode Island in both the NSCAA and Soccer Buzz regional polls for the past several weeks, and ahead of Yale in the Soccer Buzz poll...
Harvard’s lack of bad losses compared to Rhode Island’s losses to teams well off the NCAA radar—Brown, St. Bonaventure and New Hampshire—led to a majority of rational human voters ranking Harvard ahead of the Rams in both polls. But the NCAA selection criteria led to a different result than voter opinion...
Both the Rams and the Crimson had the same number of wins over NCAA qualifying teams. Harvard had beaten Princeton and Central Connecticut. Rhode Island had beaten Dayton and Richmond, both teams in its conference...
...criteria been more like the men’s. Unlike the women’s committee, the men’s committee uses as the main selection criteria an adjusted rating-percentage-index that additionally rewards good wins and penalizes bad losses. Since Harvard had no bad losses and Rhode Island had several, Harvard would have been clearly helped by that format...
...NCAA also happened to save money by selecting Rhode Island over Harvard, too. Had Harvard been selected, it would have had to have been shipped out of region, and another team would have been shipped to the region to avoid an intraconference in the first round...