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Date Posted: 17:23:13 06/09/04 Wed
Author: Ray
Subject: Re: LU & play-in....pitt
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Re: LU & play-in....pitt" on 13:05:25 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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