>>        Nitpick: any team that wins a conference tournament is
>>automatically a TUC for all purposes, regardless of their winning
>>percentage.
 
>Actually, that is not at all an undisputed fact.  Harvard's appearance in
>the ECAC finals 2 years ago caused some discussion on this point, but it
>was entirely unresolved in my recollection, and when Harvard lost the point
>became moot.  We have no idea whether a team which wins its tournament
>despite being under .500 becomes a TUC for purposes of comparison criteria.
>It seems far more reasonable to assume that such a team is NOT a TUC,
>since, particularly for the 'record vs. TUC' criterion, this could create
>quite a few differences in PWC standings.
 
According to John Painter at the NCAA:
 
# -- If a team claims one of a conference's automatic berths by winning
the league tournament, that team does become a "team under
consideration," no matter what its overall winning percentage.
 
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