Greg writes:
 
>2 Colgate players and 1 Cornell player are assessed game DQs and will have
>to sit out their next game.  For Cornell, this is an NC contest, for Colgate
>it is a league game.
 
>Stretch this scenario a tad and you have what I think is a real problem.
>What if, for instance, the league game upcoming for Colgate was itself a
>game against Cornell -- a situation that could easily happen if one team had
>one game interposed between the home and home pair, and the other did not.
 
>What that would yield would be Cornell losing its DQ'ed players in an
>unimportant NC contest, and Colgate losing its players in a league game.....
>against Cornell!
 
        In fact, that exact situation, only with the teams reversed,
would have arised if the DQs had occurred in the first of these three
games (the one on Long Island) rather than the last.  Colgate played
Merrimack in between the non-conference game with Cornell and the
conference game at Lynah, while the Red were idle.  Exactly that
possibility occurred to me, only in this case it would have been
worse, since the game in which the DQs would have occurred was
*itself* a non-conference game.  Of course, since Colgate is in a
position to make the NCAA tournament on the basis of their overall
performance, there are arguably no unimportant games for them, in or
out of the conference.
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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