One of the wackiest ECAC seasons in history finally ended Saturday night, and the Clarkson Golden Knights wound up clinching the regular-season title. Predictably, there were a number of ties in the standings, and the tie- breaker gurus may have had to put in a bit of overtime to sort things out -- particularly in the Union-Dartmouth tie for tenth, which didn't get resolved until the third tiebreaker. Results from the ECAC's last weekend: Friday, March 3, 1995: Clarkson 10, BROWN 2 VERMONT 1, Princeton 0 Rpi 2, CORNELL 2 (OT) HARVARD 8, St. Lawrence 3 COLGATE 7, Union 5 DARTMOUTH 7, Yale 4 Saturday, March 4: Clarkson 5, HARVARD 4 DARTMOUTH 3, Princeton 2 COLGATE 3, Rpi 0 BROWN 8, St. Lawrence 2 CORNELL 8, Union 2 VERMONT 3, Yale 2 (OT) Final regular-season ECAC standings: League Overall Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Clarkson 14 5 3 31 116 70 20 8 4 44 167 109 # Brown 13 7 2 28 78 76 14 10 3 31 98 96 # Harvard 12 9 1 25 79 68 14 13 1 29 104 94 # Colgate 12 9 1 25 98 78 18 13 1 37 144 116 @ Vermont 11 9 2 24 85 61 18 12 2 38 129 98 @ RPI 10 9 3 23 75 78 16 13 3 35 122 117 $ Princeton 9 10 3 21 81 83 14 11 4 32 106 101 $ St. Lawrence 10 12 0 20 83 110 15 16 1 31 113 144 $ Cornell 8 10 4 20 72 76 10 13 4 24 95 100 $ Union 6 12 4 16 70 87 9 15 4 22 98 111 Dartmouth 7 13 2 16 80 111 9 16 2 20 95 136 Yale 6 13 3 15 65 84 8 17 3 19 91 115 $ - Clinched playoff berth @ - Clinched preliminary round bye # - Clinched home ice for quarterfinals * - Clinched regular-season title Harvard placed third due to a 1-0-1 record head-to-head against Colgate. St. Lawrence placed eighth due to their record against the top four teams (2-6 vs. 1-6-1 for Cornell). Union placed tenth due to their record against the top eight teams (5-7-4 vs. 5-10-1 for Dartmouth). Final Ivy League standings: Team W L T Pts GF GA ------------------------------------------- * Brown 7 2 1 15 37 26 Harvard 6 4 0 12 33 27 Princeton 5 4 1 11 34 32 Dartmouth 3 5 2 8 35 42 Yale 3 5 2 8 28 33 Cornell 2 6 2 6 32 39 * - Clinched Ivy League championship And now, on to the playoffs, which don't look any easier to handicap than the regular-season was. Things get started Tuesday night with the prelim- inary round games, which have Union traveling to Princeton and St. Lawrence hosting Cornell. The rest of this post contains home, away, overtime, and one-goal-game records for the ECAC. If this stuff bores you, go ahead and hit 'n' (or whatever the Next Message command is on your mailer)... I don't mind :-) OK, for the rest of you... Final ECAC Home standings: League Overall Team W L T Pct. GF GA W L T Pct. GF GA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RPI * 7 3 1 0.682 50 37 10 6 1 0.618 82 64 Brown 7 3 1 0.682 39 31 7 5 2 0.571 47 47 St. Lawrence 7 4 0 0.636 43 44 8 5 1 0.607 52 52 Clarkson 6 4 1 0.591 59 31 8 5 2 0.600 81 50 Union 5 3 3 0.591 39 33 7 3 3 0.654 50 37 Colgate 6 5 0 0.545 52 39 9 5 0 0.643 71 48 Vermont 6 5 0 0.545 45 32 9 6 0 0.600 67 40 Princeton 5 4 2 0.545 46 37 6 4 2 0.583 50 40 Harvard 5 5 1 0.500 38 34 5 7 1 0.423 41 45 Dartmouth 5 6 0 0.455 48 54 6 7 0 0.462 56 62 Cornell 3 4 4 0.455 40 37 4 4 4 0.500 48 39 Yale 4 6 1 0.409 34 40 5 6 1 0.458 44 40 * - Includes 1-1 record as host of RPI Invitational Final ECAC Road standings: League Overall Team W L T Pct. GF GA W L T Pct. GF GA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson 8 1 2 0.818 57 39 12 3 2 0.765 86 59 Harvard 7 4 0 0.636 41 34 9 6 0 0.600 63 49 Brown 6 4 1 0.591 39 45 7 5 1 0.577 51 49 Colgate 6 4 1 0.591 46 39 9 8 1 0.528 73 68 Vermont 5 4 2 0.545 40 29 9 6 2 0.588 62 58 Cornell 5 6 0 0.455 32 39 6 9 0 0.400 47 61 Princeton 4 6 1 0.409 35 46 8 7 2 0.529 56 61 RPI 3 6 2 0.364 25 41 6 7 2 0.467 40 53 St. Lawrence 3 8 0 0.273 40 66 7 11 0 0.389 61 92 Dartmouth 2 7 2 0.273 32 57 3 9 2 0.286 39 74 Yale 2 7 2 0.273 31 44 3 11 2 0.250 47 75 Union 1 9 1 0.136 31 54 2 12 1 0.167 48 74 Final ECAC Overtime game standings: League Overall Team W L T Pct. W L T Pct. ------------------------------------------------------- St. Lawrence 1 0 0 1.000 1 0 2 0.667 Harvard 1 0 1 0.750 1 0 1 0.750 Dartmouth 1 0 2 0.667 1 0 2 0.667 Brown 1 0 2 0.667 1 0 3 0.625 RPI 1 0 3 0.625 1 0 3 0.625 Clarkson 1 1 3 0.500 2 1 4 0.571 Princeton 1 1 3 0.500 1 1 4 0.500 Vermont 1 1 2 0.500 2 1 2 0.600 Union 0 0 4 0.500 0 0 4 0.500 Cornell 0 1 4 0.400 0 1 4 0.400 Yale 0 2 3 0.300 0 2 3 0.300 Colgate 0 2 1 0.167 2 2 1 0.500 Final ECAC One-goal game standings (games decided by one or zero goals): League Overall Team W L T Pct. W L T Pct. ------------------------------------------------------- Brown 5 0 2 0.857 5 1 3 0.722 RPI 4 1 3 0.688 6 1 3 0.750 St. Lawrence 4 2 0 0.667 6 2 1 0.722 Dartmouth 5 4 2 0.545 6 5 2 0.538 Cornell 4 3 4 0.545 4 4 4 0.500 Vermont 4 4 2 0.500 7 5 2 0.571 Princeton 3 3 3 0.500 5 3 4 0.583 Clarkson 3 3 3 0.500 5 4 4 0.538 Harvard 4 6 1 0.409 4 7 1 0.375 Yale 3 6 3 0.375 3 6 3 0.375 Union 1 3 4 0.375 2 4 4 0.400 Colgate 1 6 1 0.188 3 7 1 0.318 ECAC record against non-league teams: Team W L T Pct. GF GA --------------------------------------------- Hockey East 21 23 1 0.478 164 192 CCHA 5 6 2 0.462 59 64 WCHA 1 6 0 0.143 17 31 Independent 9 1 0 0.900 67 24 * Not Eligible 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 ** Div. I record: 36 36 3 0.500 307 311 Non-Division I 8 1 2 0.818 62 33 Overall Record: 44 37 5 0.541 369 344 * - Alaska-Fairbanks was counted as an independent, rather than a CCHA team (Harvard was 2-0 against Alaska-Fairbanks) ** - "Not Eligible" = ineligible for the NC$$ Division I tournament -- Disclaimer -- Unless otherwise noted, all opinions expressed above are strictly those of: Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and '94.5 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! DJF 5/27/94 "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million type- writers, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." -- Blair Houghton