Anyone know when we'll play: noon or 6 pm?
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i was under the impression that, despite what the announcers said, we should play the lowest ranked team in the tourney. if michigan beats cc, we should play michigan, not unh. am i correct?
-mike
No I've heard a bunch of times that the East winner plays the Northeast winner.
The announcers on TV said the same thing yesterday.
But I don't know what time.......
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announcers for the cc game just said cornell-unh at noon on thursday the 10th
Oh well, means I'll have to take off work Wednesday as well. It's an 8 hour flight for me in my little plane. (Beats the heck out of driving, though.)
Yup, I just saw it on the graphic. Play at noon. How do they decide that?
That sucks.
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Why does that suck? We seem to be doing quite well in the noon games.
can someone explain why we are playing unh instead of possibly michigan? i thought that the number one seed of the tourney plays the lowest seed to make it to the FF (thus the wording in the press release- "if all four #1 seeds make the FF, the top ranked #1 will play the lowest ranked #1.")
anyone wanna fill me in?
-mike
They don't re-seed after the regionals. The brackets and matchups are set up in aqdvance (before the season). It's the same way in basketball.
Okay, reseeding only happens to a point guys. Have you ever seen reseeding in the NCAA basketball tournament? If a 15 beats a 2, do they still not play the winner of the same game the 2 would have played? How else would you have an office pool? ;-)
The brackets matchups are set before, so that, exactly as you quoted... "If all four #1 seeds make the FF, the top ranked #1 will play the lowest ranked #1." We're the top, UNH is the lowest. So the East plays Northeast, and West plays Midwest. They do not then reseed things if the #1s don't advance, it's just set up ahead of time to line up that way, and then the cards fall where they may.
I have no idea how they decide which teams play early/late. But I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN has some input. Michigan-Minnesota would at least sound like a better primetime game than Cornell-UNH (to an ESPN guy thinking national name recognition, etc.)
Except they announced Cornell was in the early game when Michigan and CC were still in the first period. I suspect they give the highest remaining seed the choice of game times.
Neither basketball nor hockey (nor, for that matter, any single-elimination NCAA championship I'm familiar with) reseeds at any point in the playing of the tournament, but there is a slight difference between hoops and pucks.
Hockey determines which regional winners will meet when the tournament field is set, with the idea being (as many have stated) to pair the overall #1 with #4, and #2 with #3.
Basketball uses a static rotation for this purpose. No matter what their overall seed, the East and South champions will meet in one semi and the Midwest and West champs in the other. This is set before the season starts. It led to significant consternation about a possible Arizona/Kentucky matchup in a semifinal as opposed to the championship. Of course, that could have been a 1/4 or 2/3 pairing in the committee's eyes - there's no way to know how the committee ranked the teams.
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well, if Schafer requested it, that would make sense. He likes the earlier game so the boys can eat a normal dinner and get to bed early to rest up for the final, even though it's two days later.