BC is on national TV again Friday night, this time against Northeastern.
I'd like to know why Boston College got in over several other schools with very similar records and strength of schedule.
I'm sure their size and $$$$$ had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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then you have to love the auto bid out of the Atlantic!!!I'd like to know why Boston College got in over several other schools with very similar records and strength of schedule.
I'm sure their size and $$$$$ had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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You have to look at the pairwise rankings. It is formula-based. There is no objectivity to it:
then you have to love the auto bid out of the Atlantic!!!
I didnt realize that, but it still seems to favor big schools because the bigger schools are in a better position to effect schedule, and given RPI is a massive factor in that rankings schedule.......well, you can see how that could play out.
Yet HockeyEast, perhaps the toughest in hockey doesnt get an automatic bid - how does that make any sense?
UMASS-Lowell makes the final of HockeyEast, and sits at home because they're the 17th ranked team in a 16 team tournament, and 38 ranked RIT advances. Ridiculous.
Vermont took 2 of 3 from Boston College in the playoffs, has about the same record, and is only ranked .0100 behind BC in RPI, but BC makes it ranked 11th versus UVM at 20th. Seems too dramatic a difference IMO.
I didnt realize that, but it still seems to favor big schools because the bigger schools are in a better position to effect schedule, and given RPI is a massive factor in that rankings schedule.......well, you can see how that could play out.
Yet HockeyEast, perhaps the toughest in hockey doesnt get an automatic bid - how does that make any sense?
UMASS-Lowell makes the final of HockeyEast, and sits at home because they're the 17th ranked team in a 16 team tournament, and 38 ranked RIT advances. Ridiculous.
Vermont took 2 of 3 from Boston College in the playoffs, has about the same record, and is only ranked .0100 behind BC in RPI, but BC makes it ranked 11th versus UVM at 20th. Seems too dramatic a difference IMO.
Boston College (so Santini) will be on ESPN2 playing against Denver if anybody is interested.
Miami (Ohio) is also playing Providence today at 6:30 on ESPNU, but I don't think Coleman will be playing from the Game Misconduct
Alexander Kerfoot and Harvard are playing at 7:30 against Nebraska-Omaha on ESPN3
BC about to get ousted
PROVIDENCE — The Friars will be in Boston for the Final Four, which in itself marks the end of a long road back. They last made it to college hockey’s biggest dance in 1985, when Chris Terreri was the their star goalie and some unknown kid named Adam Oates from RPI helped dash their dream of an NCAA championship.
“It’s a great moment for our program,” said coach Nate Leaman, moments after his Friars erased Denver, 4-1, here Sunday to capture the East Regional championship. “But the job’s not done. We move on to Boston. These are the great moments we want our program in . . . but the job’s not done.”
Three decades gone by. Thirty years and waiting. While so much of New England college hockey has focused on the success of the likes of Boston University and Boston College, the Friars have plugged along, ever earnest, most always respectable, but never quite championship stuff.
But now here they are, two victories, perhaps only 120 minutes, from bringing home a national title to a state that has long embraced hockey (homage here to the beloved and legendary Rhode Island Reds). They will play in the Frozen Four’s first game on April 9 at TD Garden, against an opponent (Nebraska-Omaha) that still hadn’t been determined Sunday night when they the sashayed out of the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.