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• Of the 14 at-large bids, all but 3 are spoken for.
  
  Seeding will be an interesting exercise for the selection committee
  
  Since so many teams beat each other and different opponents, the numbers will determine a lot in final placement, inclusion, etc.

Hello wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:40 pm Some love for the Ivies!

jeremyfallis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:40 pm Our latest bracket projections are live on USA Lacrosse Magazine: https://www.usalacrosse.com/magazine/co ... host-sites

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• Of the 14 at-large bids, all but 3 are spoken for.
  
  Seeding will be an interesting exercise for the selection committee
  
  Since so many teams beat each other and different opponents, the numbers will determine a lot in final placement, inclusion, etc.

jff97 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:36 pm I don't envy the committee's job this year at all. Northwestern is the only team that's separated itself from the field. The top seeds as well as a lot of the AQs and at-large bids could beat each other on any given day. Seeding this field and making the bracket is not going to be easy.

jff97 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:36 pm I don't envy the committee's job this year at all. Northwestern is the only team that's separated itself from the field. The top seeds as well as a lot of the AQs and at-large bids could beat each other on any given day. Seeding this field and making the bracket is not going to be easy.

Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:54 pm

jff97 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:36 pm I don't envy the committee's job this year at all. Northwestern is the only team that's separated itself from the field. The top seeds as well as a lot of the AQs and at-large bids could beat each other on any given day. Seeding this field and making the bracket is not going to be easy.

Well I’m happy to take this on. All decisions arbitrary and final.

Lax101 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:13 pm Im told more so than ever that there will be a big disconnect between eye test and subjective view (and even AA's on field) compared to the RPI. Can Yale with one of highest RPI's get a better seed than ND or Cuse?They lost by 8 to BC. RPI does not seem to view ACC the way most students of the game would. If you had to make a big money wager with no spread would anyone take Yale over Cuse, ND or BC ... or even Virginia. Same is true of MD. Would anyone take MD with no spread against Cuse, ND or BC.

Lax101 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:13 am Does anyone know to what extent conference tournament results impact final NCAA tournament seeds. Some people say not at all, some people say a little and most people dont seem to know. Has the committee ever commented on the subject?

RJP wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:42 pm Well Yale and UVA both beat Stanford and Princeton by the same margins so i would take that natch up. Brown lost to ND by 1 and Yale beat Brown by 5 so i might put money on that match as well. Yes the BC game was a bad look but so were pretty much every other top 10 losses to Penn State and UPenn. It will be an interesting next month.

flushlax77 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:00 am No idea how Brown is 20 when their best win is 35th in RPI and they lost to 27. Shows how broken the system is.

flushlax77 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:00 am

RJP wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:42 pm Well Yale and UVA both beat Stanford and Princeton by the same margins so i would take that natch up. Brown lost to ND by 1 and Yale beat Brown by 5 so i might put money on that match as well. Yes the BC game was a bad look but so were pretty much every other top 10 losses to Penn State and UPenn. It will be an interesting next month.

This ignores so much context. The UVA that beat Stanford in the first game of the season is way different than the UVA that beat BC last week. New coach, new system, 3 freshmen starting in their first game.

Yale that beat Stanford is the same roster from last year. It’s part of what makes them so good this year.

This is a fun thought exercise on potential matchups between each Ivy League team and their same conference ranking counterpart

Yale vs Syracuse- Cuse (most competitive game)
Princeton vs BC- BC
Penn vs ND- ND
UVA vs Harvard- UVA
UNC vs Brown - Brown in an upset
Cornell vs Duke- Duke
Dartmouth vs Clemson- Clemson
Columbia vs VT/Louisville/Pitt- give me all the ACC teams by running clock.

I got the Ivies losing all of these matchups except Brown which would be considered an upset.

It’s been fun watching the Ivies come back strong after their weak minded admin decided to take 2 years of playing away from their athletes. But I think the RPI is severely overrating their teams. No idea how Brown is 20 when their best win is 35th in RPI and they lost to 27. Shows how broken the system is.