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Re: LU & play-in....pitt -- Rick, 13:05:25 06/09/04 Wed
dunno....
In going back and looking at both the conf. & team RPI rankings for NCAA Tourney participants it appears that the play-in game should have been Alabama State ( .4264 RPI and a #16 seed ) instead of Lehigh ( .4666 RPI ) VS. Florida A&M ( .4169 RPI ). Plus, Alabama State played in one of the few conferences ranked below the Patriot ( error in my post to Fred above - 31 conferences not 32 in total )
Can't recall if we discussed this here or if/how the NCAA arrived at this match-up.
anyone ?
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Re: LU & play-in....pitt -- Ray, 17:23:13 06/09/04 Wed
Consensus at the time was that the NCAA has a desire to rotate the PI-game slots among as many conferences/teams as possible, within reason. Lehigh was, IIRC, #3 from the bottom in terms of RPI of the 65-team field, and the PL having never had a PI-game entrant (but the lower two conferences/teams having been relegated previously), the NCAA took the opportunity to send the PL champ, since it was at least a defensible selection.
Also discussed was that there's a subtle element of race involved there, since the bottom-rated conferences that most often end up in the PI game are from the SWAC and MEAC, two conferences strongly populated by "historically black" colleges. I don't know whether any of the SWAC/MEAC people are complaining about this, but now the NCAA can defend themselves by saying that they've had two Northeastern private schools (LU and Siena) in the PI game in the last 4(?) years.
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Re: OOC schedule @HC vs. Bucknell's - Fred -- Fred, 11:53:15 06/09/04 Wed
Rick,
You make some good points above. The schedule should be geared towards winning the league tournament. BU played an ambitious schedule, but were upset in the first game of their tourney.
It's league schedule that hurts HC, not the OOC schedule.
The RPI of 23 of the American East is not appreciably different than that of the PL (26), IMO.
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