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...there, Harvard will first have to down the Golden Knights, who qualified for their first-ever ECAC tournament as a No. 8 seed after a successful inaugural conference campaign. For a team in only its second year of Division I play, Clarkson’s 13-15-6 record, including two wins in the last three games to earn a post-season bid, surprised many observers...
...let’s start with a typical eight-team tournament where the No. 1 seed opens with No. 8, No. 2 with No. 7, and so on. Should an eight-seed, one which posted anywhere from an 0-14 to 4-10 league record, be able to get hot for three games and take the league’s coveted automatic bid to the NCAA tournament? How about a seven-seed with a slightly better, say, 5-9 record...
...major tournament survive for three days. Looking at the American East and the Patriot League—two conferences that the Ivy League schedules a fair amount of games with and that are at similar talent levels—in 36 combined tournaments, the No. 1 seed has won 25, the No. 2 seed has claimed 10, and a No. 3 seed took home the other. The lowest seed ever to make the conference finals was a No. 5 and only five times have teams seeded lower than third advanced to the final game...
Narrowing the tournament field to three or four, however, makes it more difficult to lodge the “unworthy” complaint. Sure an 8-6 four-seed might be unjustified in taking the automatic bid away from a 13-1 or 14-0 No. 1 seed, but what about a 10-4 third-place team taking the automatic bid away from a 12-2 league winner. While a 13-1 or 14-0 record shows a significant talent gap compared to an 8-6, how much better can we say that the 12-2 team is than...
...double whammy Mass.-Lowell, BU, and Maine each suffered was enough to boost Harvard from a low No. 3 seed to a low No. 2. But with regular-season play drawing to a close nationwide this weekend and plenty more high-profile matchups capable of dropping the Crimson right back down, Harvard’s skaters will certainly be watching the results...