Fellow pundits,
 
If Cornell "squeaked" in, then I suggest that any team which did not
get an automatic bid by winning their regular season or tournament
"backed" in.
 
The object of the sport is to win the championship.
 
Cornell did.  That more than offsets *any* difference in an
abstract measure like a power rating, whose constituent factors and
their relative weights are ultimately arbitrary.
 
The elevation of a statistical measure over a concrete result is
ludicrous, and reflects a greater respect for the creators of
ratings indices than for the players who got the job done.
 
Congratulations to all the teams who earned their way into the
tournament by winning their regular season title or their
tournament title.
 
They are, after all, the champions.
 
 
Greg Berge
Let's Go Red!
 
 
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