WHOM to root for 3/9 - 3/12/12 (other conferences)

[jtn27]

UMass out of TUC status, Yale in.  Cornell's TUC record now 8-3-3.  12th in Pairwise (tied with Denver at 11, Denver has higher RPI).

We're currently winning comparison against 3 teams above us in PWR and RPI, namely Michigan, Minnesota and Union.  So having Yale a TUC and UMass not one can be the key to an NCAA berth.  UMass is just barely out - they were still at .5001 after their loss but then a few other results knocked them down to ,4999.
I just hope we don't wind up in a ridiculous situation like playing Yale in the ECAC consolation game and not being sure if we want to beat Yale and knock them out of being a TUC.

Always root for Cornell. No matter what. End of discussion.

[nyc94]

UMass out of TUC status, Yale in.  Cornell's TUC record now 8-3-3.  12th in Pairwise (tied with Denver at 11, Denver has higher RPI).

We're currently winning comparison against 3 teams above us in PWR and RPI, namely Michigan, Minnesota and Union.  So having Yale a TUC and UMass not one can be the key to an NCAA berth.  UMass is just barely out - they were still at .5001 after their loss but then a few other results knocked them down to ,4999.

I was about to post the same thing.  I'll add that we are losing to two teams below us - Denver and Michigan State - because of our lower RPI.  so root for Wisconsin and Miami, respectively.  Might be enough to flip the comparisons if we win and they lose.  We also trail Michigan and Minnesota in RPI and are very unlikely to catch up.  We win those comparisons with Common Opponents and TUC.  I don't think it's possible for Michigan and Minnesota to catch our TUC winning percentage (with Yale in and UMass out) even if they win out against TUCs.

[jkahn]

UMass out of TUC status, Yale in.  Cornell's TUC record now 8-3-3.  12th in Pairwise (tied with Denver at 11, Denver has higher RPI).

We're currently winning comparison against 3 teams above us in PWR and RPI, namely Michigan, Minnesota and Union.  So having Yale a TUC and UMass not one can be the key to an NCAA berth.  UMass is just barely out - they were still at .5001 after their loss but then a few other results knocked them down to ,4999.
I just hope we don't wind up in a ridiculous situation like playing Yale in the ECAC consolation game and not being sure if we want to beat Yale and knock them out of being a TUC.

Always root for Cornell. No matter what. End of discussion.

The point was more that a situation could possibly exist this year where a tie (or even a loss) in our last game might get us into the NCAA's and a win would not.
And that I sure hope that crazy situation doesn't happen this year.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell has the highest TUC percentage of all.  Maybe I need to learn to love TUC.::yark::

[Trotsky]

Always root for Cornell. No matter what. End of discussion.

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