---"Anne M. Baseler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I loathe the F5 and agree, but since one (the only real?) motivation is to
> give the #1 a free ride to the final and artificially inflate their chance
> of a RS-PS title and auto NCAA bye, I don't see why they did it.
>
> (It's funny that the #5 won last year. Probably the only time it'll ever
> happen, but it's so typical that an ECAC plan *will* go awry as soon as
> possible to cause maximum embarrassment to the league...;-)
In fact, Princeton was the #4 seed last year (they started the tournament as
the #7 seed) and Cornell was the #5 seed (they started the tournament as the
#8 seed).
Regardless, last year's winner did have to play on back-to-back-to-back days.
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