Dartmouth/UVM

judy · February 11, 2002, 10:58:38 AM

It's Monday morning and due to the lack of work here at work, I'm bored and feeling like
::nut::

So what does everyone think of our chances of getting a win at Dartmouth? And in hoping that we get a win at Vermont, how much do we win by? Who's going? Where are you staying? Know of any good places in Burlington to go hang out during the day? Good places to go dancing at night?

looking forward to 6pm when Olympic hockey starts up again...

AdamGanderson · February 11, 2002, 11:29:08 AM

It's like someone else said of the Yale game. It really depends which team shows up. If the team that played against Hahvahd shows up to the Dartmouth game, it's so ours. If the team that played against Princeton (or even Yale I fear) shows up, we may not make it to a 10 game win streak.

Greg Berge · February 11, 2002, 12:08:04 PM

> may not make it to a 10 game win streak.

Um. Let's get to nine, first.

Judy, stay anywhere but the Super 8 on the interstate in South Burlington. Anne and I stayed there years ago (when it was a Best Western) and tried the "bubble bath in the in-room jacuzzi" trick. Silly kids. Place has never been the same.

jeh25 · February 11, 2002, 12:18:12 PM

Ewww. I didn't need that image Greg. Dammit, I was about to have lunch too....

AdamGanderson · February 11, 2002, 12:27:43 PM

Sorry Greg... I got so caught up in wishing UVM were the Saturday game (to open up the possibility of a 4 point weekend/7 point season chant) that I forgot we still have to beat them.

Thanks for keeping me honest.

Beeeej · February 11, 2002, 12:43:07 PM

Adam, UVM is the Saturday game.

Beeeej

rhovorka · February 11, 2002, 12:53:05 PM

I'd also like to point out that it is now statistically possible for Cornell to clinch the Cleary Cup (or as I like to call it, "The #1 seed in the ECAC tournament") this weekend. It would be Cornell's first first-place finish since the '73-'74 season, which they were celebrating 6 months before I was born.

Not being the full-fledged stat geek, here's my thought process. With a 7 game lead going in, we'd have to emerge from the weekend with a 9-point lead to be guaranteed of first place (4 games remaining, including one with Clarkson). That means we have to have a net gain of 2 points vs. Harvard, a net gain of 1 point to Clarkson, and just not losing any ground to Colgate and Dartmouth. There are several possibilities, of course (I did tinker with JTW's great possibilities script at http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2002/ecac.cgi.shtml ), but with #2 Harvard playing #3 Clarkson Friday, we are guaranteed that both of them can not have 4 point weekends. But that also means the 2nd place team after Friday will have at least 21 points to our max of 29. So we can't clinch 1st place Friday (of course because that would require an 11 point lead with 5 games remaining...duh).

So, the possibility of clinching:
1) Outright Ivy Championship (Friday)
2) Home Ice for the playoffs (Friday if #1 happens)
3) #1 seed for the playoffs (Saturday)

All in the same weekend! More incentive to push those fence-sitters into going.

Realistically, I'm betting we don't clinch the Cleary Cup this weekend. But getting it in front of home fans (dare I say vs. Clarkson?) and taking league-pressure (not PWR pressure) off the last weekend of the season would be great. It isn't ours yet. And I'm confident that coach still has the team focusing on every game.

Greg Berge · February 11, 2002, 03:06:57 PM

> It would be Cornell's first first-place finish since the '73-'74 season

72-73, actually. Heck, I was all of 10.

rhovorka · February 11, 2002, 06:34:10 PM

It was '73-'74 according to this graph: http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/histories/history_rs_bargraph.html

But according to http://www.augenblick.org/chha/h_ecrs.html it was '72-'73. TBRW made a mistake?! ;-) Looks like they just counted the '71 3rd place finish twice, pushing everything up a year until missing the 4th place finish in '75.

Ben Doyle 03 · February 11, 2002, 11:57:16 PM

What's the fastest route from Ithaca to Hanover (. . .knowing full well none of them are fast)?

LGR!!!!!

jtwcornell91 · February 12, 2002, 12:42:20 AM

What's really scary is that all we need to do to be guaranteed a first-place finish is go 3-3 or better in our last three league games.

Incidentally, I hope everyone appreciates the irony in the new trophy named after Bill Cleary potentially being awarded to the team that ended his career as a head coach.

Greg Berge · February 12, 2002, 02:07:15 AM

> TBRW made a mistake?!

Anything to keep you honest. ;-)

jeh25 · February 12, 2002, 09:14:04 AM

is to ride with Age. :-P

Seriously, avoid the temptation to go via Syracuse.

Take NY79 to I81S to I88 to I90 to I91

Alternatively, you can take NY79 to NY206? to I88 to I90 to I91. This way is shorter and avoids Binghamton (no friggin P) but the road is a little curvy and can get hairy in the winter. Unless your car has plenty of power, you will also spend a lot of time downshifting out of turns and up hills.

jtwcornell91 · February 12, 2002, 09:21:35 AM

I think in the Boston to Ithaca thread we determined that the best way to Albany was 79->206->I-88, so by extension that should apply here. But you might want to stick to the interstates if weather becomes a factor.

Melissa \'01 · February 12, 2002, 09:32:21 AM

have been traveling 206 all season and so far has been great ....very clear. as long as we don't get any snow between now and then this is the way to go ( and the twists and turns are great for easing the monotony of a boring road trip ... tho if you like to get a groove on in your car road trips are NEVER boring!):-))

Dartmouth/UVM

Melissa \'01