Lance Riegert asks:
 
> Hey, does anyone think that one more ECAC team should have entered
> the NCAAs? RPI (or Princeton), I feel, should be the last team to
> make the Nationals.
 
No, not given the stated selection criteria used by the NCAA.  If
Princeton had won the ECAC consolation game, the pairwise comparisons
would have been different, and they would presumably have made the
field.  Read
 
http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?pairwise
 
for an explanation of the process,
 
http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?pairwise
 
for my prediction of how the selection would be done given the final
pairwise comparisons.  There was some ambiguity this year, and I
guessed the wrong one of the two likely possibilites, but the only
difference was the substitution of Notre Dame for OSU.  To go through
the whole process interactively, see
 
http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?tourney
 
If you still think RPI or Princeton should have made it after all
that, then we can talk.  But don't complain just because they're from
our conference and fell slightly short of the field.  This is why the
NCAA has selection criteria instead of using opinion polls.
 
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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