Joel Graber wrote:
>> What would Coach Sertich say if Miami won its own tournament, let's say over
>> Michigan in the final?  Wouldn't that pretty much seal the top two seeds
>> in the West?  This could be interesting to see where a league tournament
>> winner is seeded against a team or teams from another league that have been
>> in a poll consistently above such a winner.  We'll see.
 
>I believe there is a precedent here-  in either 90-91 or 89-90 (someone correct
>me), Clarkson won the ECAC, and was placed rather lowly in the NC$$ tournament.
>They were, needless to say, rather unhappy with this situation, and preceded
>to go into Sault Ste. Marie, and beat Lake Superior State at home.
 
It was 1990-91. Clarkson won the ECAC regular season title and
tournament crown. They were 25-7-1, I believe, going into the NC$$'s
and were seeded fourth. It didn't matter as they defeated defending
national champion Wisconsin and number one in the nation LSSU in
SS Marie.
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"I don't think [The 24-3 Arizona hoops team] is capable of winning 6 in a row."
---Dick Vitale, apparently oblivious to the fact that is statistically
   impossible to go 24-3 without at least 1 winning streak of at least 8 games
   and to the fact that the Wildcats won 19 in a row earlier this season.