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The committee's selection decisions effectively come down to two spots for Brown, Georgetown, Ohio State and Princeton. That gets cut to one spot for Brown, Georgetown and Ohio State if Princeton wins the Ivy tournament.
The wild card is Ohio State. Its high-level victories are the sort of differentiators that help guide the committee's choices ... but so are the Buckeyes' losses.
"I believe in our body of work and I believe in what we've done," Ohio State coach Nick Myers said after Saturday's Big Ten title game. "I haven't studied it to the extent I know the committee will, but at the end of the day, we have a top-five win, a top-10 win. With Towson winning today, you're looking at four wins in the top 20. I guess you're going to have to show another bubble team that has a resume similar to that."
The committee has shown a penchant for punishing poor results, and it's not as if Brown doesn't have some quality in its profile. The guess is the Bears barely slip in, and force the committee to use three flights out of necessity in the first round.
Annapolis quarterfinal
(1) ATLANTIC COAST/Syracuse vs. METRO ATLANTIC/Marist-NORTHEAST/Bryant
(8) Cornell vs. AMERICA EAST/Albany
Denver quarterfinal
(4) BIG EAST/Denver vs. PATRIOT/Colgate
(5) Duke vs. BIG TEN/Johns Hopkins
Annapolis quarterfinal
(3) North Carolina vs. Brown
(6) Virginia vs. IVY/Princeton
Denver quarterfinal
(2) Notre Dame vs. COLONIAL/Towson-SOUTHERN/High Point
(7) Maryland vs. Yale
Just on the inside: Cornell, Yale, Brown
Just on the outside: Ohio State, Georgetown, Marquette
Moving in: Brown, Bryant, High Point
Moving out: Georgetown, Richmond, Saint Joseph's
http://www.syracuse.com/patrick-ste...lege_lacrosse_syracuse_move.html#incart_river
The committee's selection decisions effectively come down to two spots for Brown, Georgetown, Ohio State and Princeton. That gets cut to one spot for Brown, Georgetown and Ohio State if Princeton wins the Ivy tournament.
The wild card is Ohio State. Its high-level victories are the sort of differentiators that help guide the committee's choices ... but so are the Buckeyes' losses.
"I believe in our body of work and I believe in what we've done," Ohio State coach Nick Myers said after Saturday's Big Ten title game. "I haven't studied it to the extent I know the committee will, but at the end of the day, we have a top-five win, a top-10 win. With Towson winning today, you're looking at four wins in the top 20. I guess you're going to have to show another bubble team that has a resume similar to that."
The committee has shown a penchant for punishing poor results, and it's not as if Brown doesn't have some quality in its profile. The guess is the Bears barely slip in, and force the committee to use three flights out of necessity in the first round.
Annapolis quarterfinal
(1) ATLANTIC COAST/Syracuse vs. METRO ATLANTIC/Marist-NORTHEAST/Bryant
(8) Cornell vs. AMERICA EAST/Albany
Denver quarterfinal
(4) BIG EAST/Denver vs. PATRIOT/Colgate
(5) Duke vs. BIG TEN/Johns Hopkins
Annapolis quarterfinal
(3) North Carolina vs. Brown
(6) Virginia vs. IVY/Princeton
Denver quarterfinal
(2) Notre Dame vs. COLONIAL/Towson-SOUTHERN/High Point
(7) Maryland vs. Yale
Just on the inside: Cornell, Yale, Brown
Just on the outside: Ohio State, Georgetown, Marquette
Moving in: Brown, Bryant, High Point
Moving out: Georgetown, Richmond, Saint Joseph's
http://www.syracuse.com/patrick-ste...lege_lacrosse_syracuse_move.html#incart_river
