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That isn’t why the end of the PCC happened. And Montana had already left in 1950 anyhow. The PCC disbanded over a major slush fund scandal that touched nearly every school in the league at one point or another (in other words “everyone’s AD was helping its students get paid under the table...

Yale sponsors 35 varsity sports. Villanova 24.

Ice hockey already does something like this which the baseball committee can just do as well. Which is, simply put: games that a team wins that have a negative impact on their RPI are simply ignored.

Yes, that’s the way RPI works. It is purely results driven, meaning that each new data point (ie a game result) added changes some portion of it. However, today’s RPI doesn’t matter for anything or anyone. In some ways, today’s RPI doesn’t exist. Because the formula is known, people can...

More evidence for the Mirror Universe Evil Doppelgänger of Randy Edsall theory continues to accrue.

Doesn’t matter where they are now. It does matter where they are March 18.

They should have pitched it with “And you don’t have to be in the B1G for hockey anymore. You can go be friends with all your old Minnesota friends. And also North Dakota!”

What do you mean “will be”? It’s steady been that way. The only thing that’s new about it is that some peoples previously unassailable positions at the top of the heap may not be as strong as they thought.

Generally speaking, the higher seeded of the two teams that would advance. Based on who remains in each regional (Stanford and College Park): Stanford/Maryland, Stanford/Wake, Stanford UConn - remains at Stanford; when #1 seeds both advance, the super goes to the higher ranking in the national...

The answer is “maybe”. The official guideline is as follows: 1) Higher seed of the two hosts. 2) If they’re both tied, and “national seeds” (ie from the #1 seed band), the higher ranked of the two gets it. 3) If they’re both tied, the tiebreaker is a bid process. In this scenario, UCSB and...

Yep. It’s unfortunate that what looks like a moderately aggressive non-con, one that any other year might have served us well, turned out to only really have one good team on it. The harder truth is that it looks like we need to be more than moderately aggressive. Not sure whether that...

The NCAA selection committees don’t generally go for very strict bracketing, in that #1 overall plays #64 overall, and so on. Only the sixteen regional hosts are technically “seeded” by the baseball committee in a strict rank; the rest are divided into “seed bands” and are moveable within those...

This was just an overall crummy year for the non-cons we had on our schedule overall. Lots of teams that, any other year, we would’ve looked good having on the schedule: Pepperdine, LBSU, USC just to name three. With those three in a top 50 or better position, there’s no question that our...

The simple fix is to do what the ice hockey committee already does and toss from the calculation games that a team wins that still negatively impact the RPI. Because that’s basically why these games are getting dropped: no matter what happens, win or lose, the better team is going to see...

Nah, that happens at Alfred State.