ICGrad wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:57 pm
wgdsr wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:37 pm
the flipside is also "true". if it's straight rpi, no one from the ivy will be allowed to claim acc bias ever again.
It might be that the committee has little choice.
In the (admittedly not entirely likely, but certainly possible) scenario that Cornell and Harvard win this weekend, then the two edge cases have played themselves into the ILT and would be hovering right around/better than Duke and ND. I'm not sure what the ILT results do to either team's RPI, but in that scenario, the committee will be hard pressed to leave out a Cornell team that beat both Princeton (a lock) and Yale (a near-lock) and that made it to the ILT over both of those teams; same for Harvard.
I'd love to see the committee sweat that one out.
That said, a more likely scenario is that Cornell and/or Harvard loses, and whichever (or both) does is likely out.
You know the committee is absolutely praying that BOTH Cornell and Harvard lose and then they can easily give their 4 slots to Penn, Yale, Brown and Princeton.
If the opposite occurs but both Cornell and Harvard LOSE in the ILT, then the committee would be forced to take 4 teams of which 2 didn't even make the ILT over 2 teams that did.
Look, we Cornell fans are used to getting screwed by the committee, so let's just hope that Princeton kicks our butt Saturday, and then we can all go to the Fall Creek House, and drown our sorrows while toasting the committee for sticking it to us again, all the while wondering why we ever thought the selection process might by some miracle be fair to the Ivy League.
Sorry about my Cynicism.
GOBIGRED
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