CC and ND lose

CC and North Dakota both lost tonight. NoDak now has five losses, which means we could conceivably jump them again in the polls. (I'll leave PWR speculations to those who know more).

Also, with those results, Cornell now has the best record in NCAA Division I with an .826 winning percentage. Colorado College is 2nd, at .816. When was the last time Cornell led the country in winning percentage this late in the season? 1970?

Jordan

But simply by playing Vt, our RPI drops so we lose the comparison with Minn - leaving us losing the tie for 3rd.

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> When was the last time Cornell led the country in winning percentage this late in the season?

Cornell led the country in winning percentage at the end of 1973. They finished at 23-5-1 .810, ahead of Harvard's .795. This includes the forfeit win against BU; not including it they finished at 22-6-1 .776. However, they also lost the final two games of the season, so even if you do not include the forfeit, they were 22-4-1 .833 going into the NCAA tournament; the best winning percentage in the country.

In 1974 they went into the ECAC SF at 18-6-1 .740, and lost to a BU team that finished the year #1 in win% at .742, so they may have been #1 at that time. Michigan Tech also finished that season at .738 so they may have been ahead at that point.

No Cornell team since then has led the NCAA in win% this late in the year.

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:

But simply by playing Vt, our RPI drops so we lose the comparison with Minn - leaving us losing the tie for 3rd.

Depends whether you "break the tie" by RPI or the pairwise comparison with BC. The latter seems more reasonable to me, since the committee has said, at least in the past, that they looked at individual pairwise comparisons, not at the total number of comparisons won.

Everybody root for BU tomorrow!