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Harvard lost out to New England schools Yale and Rhode Island for NCAA at-large berths. Rhode Island was selected over Harvard despite having a far weaker schedule and a worse record against common opponents. But URI (15-5-1) had a far better overall record than Harvard (8-7-1), a better record against teams under NCAA consideration and just as many wins as Harvard against NCAA-bound teams. That was enough for the Rams to earn the at-large berth under the NCAA’s selection criteria...
...None of us expected it to be over today at all,” said co-captain Caitlin Butler. “We didn’t really expect that we would not get in behind Yale and Rhode Island. But you leave it up to an at-large bid, you never know what will happen...
...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...
...couple of tournament upsets played a key role in keeping Harvard out of the NCAA tournament. Richmond, an unlikely at-large NCAA qualifier, upset Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 championship. Had Rhode Island won its conference to qualify automatically, it would have freed up an at-large berth that could have gone to Harvard...
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...