"Anthony J. Buffa" wrote:
> A quick question:
>
> RPI recently won a game in double OT in their annual Christmas tourney.
> I vaguely recall that even though 2 OTs were needed to determine the
> winner for tournament purposes, this will be regarded as a one-OT tie
> for official NCAA records. Is this correct?
No, no, no, no, and no. And again, no.
This is a net-legend that ranks up there with Craig Shergold and kidney harvesting. The NCAA uses only the end result of the game for its records; there are no allowances made for regular-season tournament games that last longer than five minutes of
OT. If you win, you get a win. If you lose, you get a loss. If you tie, you get a tie. So RPI gets the W, Quinnipiac gets the L, and nobody has the result "adjusted" to a tie. And, had Ryan Shields waited until, say, the six-minute mark of OT to
knock home the winning goal against UMass-Amherst the next night, it still would have officially been RPI with the W and UMass-Amherst with the L.
The only wrinkle in this is that tournaments are now (as of last season, I think) allowed to use the shoot-out to determine winners after a five-minute OT. A game that goes to a shoot-out is officially considered a tie for both teams. For example,
in the Badger Hockey Showdown consolation game, Wisconsin defeated Colorado College in the shoot-out round after the teams had skated to a 3-3 overtime tie. In this case, Wisconsin does not officially get the W nor Colorado College the L. It's a
tie for both.
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