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[QUOTE="wgdsr, post: 4638804, member: 7179"]
here, to me, is a semi-major sticking point or 2 for 'cuse.  
- they have not just acc teams but hop/md playing one another.  so a normal-conference full slate for the opponents' record that gets dinged @ .500. they're not gonna benefit unless umd/hop reach the b1g finals after a win or 2 each.
- more importantly... we know holy cross hurts.  but holy cross has 3 games left on their slate.  those are against teams that are a combined 3 and 27!!!  if they ohfer, their opponents' record will continue to be a drag of course, but hc's opponents' record (and cuse's opp/opp), which has kept the saders above water so far, is about to take a massive hit and take that opp/opp component for cuse down with them.

hypothetical: hc wins 3 games, and their record jumps from .000 to .231 on cuse's formula.  fyi, that is multiples better w/regard to cuse (and other hc opponents) than a 3 game win streak would help almost any other opponent's record, save st bonnies.  like 3-4-almost 5x.  (if a team that's 8 and 3 wins 3 games it doesn't change % nearly as much). 2 or 3 hc wins would nullify the huge drag on opp/opp record that hc will have in a couple weeks.  if they bagel... it will be a killer.  'cuse fans need to be yuge crusader fans.

also fyi, had holy cross gone say, 4 and 7 to date, minus the slight other movements, they'd be sitting at 19/20 rpi right now in a vacuum/other patriots that beat them benefitting.  had bonnies done the same, cuse'd be at about 16 today.
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