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Confused over Harvard's invitation to the NCAA's annual eight-team championship tourney...
...when Cornell beat Clarkson in the finals of the ECAC tourney Saturday, giving the Big Red an automatic invitation to the NCAAs, most assumed the Golden Knights had wrapped up the second ECAC spot in the national tourney. Clarkson had finished second in the tourney and had beaten Harvard twice in three weeks...
Even more shocking that Harvard's appearance in the tourney was the committee's decision to give Harvard home...
Furthermore, although Western Michigan is 32-10 and the Central College Hockey Association champion, the Broncos may be the most beatable of the four western teams in the tourney...
...National Reputation. Although the Crimson was the most unheralded squad at the NCAA Final Four in '83, the icemen's reputation nationally is high. This can be seen in the pre-season attention that the squad garnered and, of course, in four national tourney appearances in five years. No other ECAC team--save RPI, eliminated in the ECAC quarters--has that kind of standing among the national college hockey community...