Sunday PWR: Big Doin's

[Al DeFlorio]

Dartmouth's "good wins" over Cornell and BC would help them if they needed a small boost to get in.  Harvard has nothing like those--and let's hope it stays that way.

[Josh '99]

Dartmouth's "good win" over Cornell doesn't count because it was against a conference opponent.

[Al DeFlorio]

When you're fudging, you're fudging--and looking for reasons to do so.

[Josh '99]

True.  I don't see any reason to expect that the Selection Committee will fudge things to help Dartmouth, though.

[Al DeFlorio]

Who knows?  Maybe they'll decide they really don't want the seventh place team from the ten-team WCHA in the tournament. ::help::

[Dart~Ben]

The games that cost Dartmouth the most - the loss to UVM at home which they had no business losing and the loss at UMass in the letdown game following the BC win.

I think the Vermont one had the potential to be the biggest one though, had Dartmouth not pulled a road sweep out of its ass and gotten the first round bye. That game was looking like it was going to be the difference between 4th and 5th. And were Dartmouth to have played the RPI-black hole known as Princeton 2 or 3 more times, there was no way in hell of getting an at-large berth.

Dartmouth needs to sweep the quarters against Union or Clarkson (2 most likely opponents), and they need to get a W over Harvard in the semis to avoid going 0-3 against the Crimson. At that point of course I'd like a W over Cornell in the finals, but if Dartmouth finished 21-12-1, I'd like to think they'd be very much on the bubble. And even if they came up an inch short, it'd still be the best season in roughly 25 years.