Nope, I don't think so.

At Maine you compete for the national championship.  You can't win that
if you don't make the dance.

I think losing in the national title game would be more motivating than
not making the tournament.  Yet, this season has not borne that out.

-Deron


--- james acheson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> hmmm.... well barring the unlikely championship win, do you think
> that maybe a team led by Captains Damon and Levielle (and not
> Mushaluck, regarless of his 27 or 29 years on this planet) would do
> better next year not having made it to the big dance the previous
> year?
>
> sometimes you gotta get slapped in the face to wake up, and if our
> boys make it to the big dance, maybe they will think that they do not
> need to work out a lot more over the summer.
>
> Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At this point, I'll take an at-large berth and a trip west if it
> means
> we get to play in the tournament.
>
> -Deron
>
>
> --- "D. B. Doucette" wrote:
>
> > Well, first PWR of this season is out, and things do not look
> > promising.
> > Maine is now at a 15th place tie...even Lowell is ahead of them !
> >
> > Maine will in my opinion really have problems if it were going for
> an
> > at-large bid: its record when it comes to the intangibles the
> > Committee
> > gives to "good wins", especially neutral site and road wins. Other
> > than
> > Vermont (ahead of them also), and Lowell (barely snatched victory
> > from the
> > jaws of a tie) Maine on the road this year has been a disaster. The
> > fans
> > travel well, but the team ?
> >
> > This season might come down to having to post at least one win at
> > each of
> > the two-game away series at New Hampshire and Boston College, and
> win
> > all
> > else, for the Black Bears to be in any contention for an at-large
> > invite to
> > the Tournament. Quite the change this season, that Maine seemingly
> > HAS to
> > win in Boston to have the best shot to control its' post-season
> fate.
> >
> > Even were they to win the HE auto-bid at not-to-be-the-Bank of
> > America
> > Center, Maine might be so low in the seedings so that they are
> prime
> > fodder
> > to be posted other than to Amherst or Worcester, and sent west.
> Even
> > more
> > scary, that the CHA (most likely a #16) auto-bid could be kept in
> the
> > East
> > given Maine is the "bigger" school and might be thought to be more
> > flexible
> > with regards to traveling.
> >
> > At least the Red Sox won the World Series....
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Deron Treadwell wrote:
> >
> > >I recently wrote that Maine might only be able to lose 2-3 games
> in
> > order
> > >to realistically have a shot at an at-large berth to the NCAA
> > Tournament.
> > >While we are still waiting for the Pairwise Rankings to debut (as
> of
> > >Monday night), but if they are anything like the below there is
> much
> > work
> > >to do.
> > >
> >
>
>
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