No. 16 Rutgers Rowing Set for Big Ten Championships Sunday
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A decent showing in B1Gs should result in having the team's name called on Selection Day for the National Races for the 4th year in a row which are held in Cooper River in Cherry Hill, NJ Memorial Day Weekend this year. Big opportunity to bring a good group of RU fans down to Cooper River Park for Nationals.
RU's B1G Champion 3V4 boat won decisively as well. Won by 5 seconds over 2nd place OSU.
RU 1V8 finishes 4th behind Michigan, Indiana, and OSU. Should be 3rd overall I believe and probably NCAA Tourney bound.
Indiana, Ohio State, and Rutgers all finished within 0.7 seconds of each other, but the second place finish pushed Indiana ahead of us for third overall as well as allowing Michigan to jump Ohio State for first.
As far as the NCAAs, there are 11 automatic bids and 11 at large selections for 22 overall teams. Nine conferences are done, with the Pac-12 and Ivy going later today. Of the 9 conferences that finished, five are unranked but there were no bid stealing upsets as none of these conferences had ranked teams. The other four champions were ranked ahead of us. The Pac-12 has #4 Stanford, #6 Washington, #7 Cal, and #19 Oregon State while the Ivy has #1 Princeton, #3 Yale, #5 Brown, #8 Penn, #17 Harvard, and #20 Columbia. Barring unbelievable upsets by Oregon State, Harvard, or Columbia it should end up being the "top" 17 schools plus the five unranked champions, so if you want it do a last four bubble, it should look somewhat as follows based on the most recent rankings:
#14 Duke
#15 Indiana
#16 Rutgers
#17 Harvard
#18 Iowa
#19 Oregon State
#20 Columbia
RV Tennessee (1 vote behind Columbia)
- We finished behind Duke in all three races on Apr 7
- We just finished well ahead of Iowa today, so they should stay behind us.
- We raced Oregon State four weeks ago where they won the 2nd Varsity 8 but we won the Varsity 4 and 1st Varsity 8.
- We faced Columbia two weeks ago and finished ahead of them in every race so should be clearly ahead of them.
- Also faced Tennessee on Apr 7 where they finished ahead in the 2nd Varsity 8 but we finished ahead in the Varsity 4 and 1st Varsity 8.
- Harvard was also there two weeks ago and they finished one spot ahead of us in the Varsity 4 and 2nd Varsity 8, but we finished two spots ahead in the 1st Varsity 8 (with Columbia in between), and as Indiana reminded us today, that race is worth a whole lot more, and should keep the edge over them.
So again, barring any last minute heroics in the Ivy or Pac 12 championships, we have recent direct head to head results with the teams around us for the last couple spots. Even if you want to put Harvard ahead of us, we should still be uncomfortably in. Of course, committees can do whatever they want and all this speculation is meaningless.
As far as the NCAAs, there are 11 automatic bids and 11 at large selections for 22 overall teams. Nine conferences are done, with the Pac-12 and Ivy going later today. Of the 9 conferences that finished, five are unranked but there were no bid stealing upsets as none of these conferences had ranked teams. The other four champions were ranked ahead of us. The Pac-12 has #4 Stanford, #6 Washington, #7 Cal, and #19 Oregon State while the Ivy has #1 Princeton, #3 Yale, #5 Brown, #8 Penn, #17 Harvard, and #20 Columbia. Barring unbelievable upsets by Oregon State, Harvard, or Columbia it should end up being the "top" 17 schools plus the five unranked champions, so if you want it do a last four bubble, it should look somewhat as follows based on the most recent rankings:
#14 Duke
#15 Indiana
#16 Rutgers
#17 Harvard
#18 Iowa
#19 Oregon State
#20 Columbia
RV Tennessee (1 vote behind Columbia)
- We finished behind Duke in all three races on Apr 7
- We just finished well ahead of Iowa today, so they should stay behind us.
- We raced Oregon State four weeks ago where they won the 2nd Varsity 8 but we won the Varsity 4 and 1st Varsity 8.
- We faced Columbia two weeks ago and finished ahead of them in every race so should be clearly ahead of them.
- Also faced Tennessee on Apr 7 where they finished ahead in the 2nd Varsity 8 but we finished ahead in the Varsity 4 and 1st Varsity 8.
- Harvard was also there two weeks ago and they finished one spot ahead of us in the Varsity 4 and 2nd Varsity 8, but we finished two spots ahead in the 1st Varsity 8 (with Columbia in between), and as Indiana reminded us today, that race is worth a whole lot more, and should keep the edge over them.
So again, barring any last minute heroics in the Ivy or Pac 12 championships, we have recent direct head to head results with the teams around us for the last couple spots. Even if you want to put Harvard ahead of us, we should still be uncomfortably in. Of course, committees can do whatever they want and all this speculation is meaningless.
Good breakdown. I felt like as long as we finished no worse than 4th in the B1G races overall which we did, we would make the NCAAs. Last year OSU, Michigan, Rutgers, and Indiana got into the NCAA races and I see that scenario playing out again this year.
No. 16 Rowing 4th at Big Ten Championships
No. 16 Rowing 4th at Big Ten Championships - Rutgers University Athletics
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It seems like rowing teams finish as close to their "ranking" more than any other sport. It seems very lock step to me, with very few "upsets."
Rutgers is IN the NCAA races as an At Large and will get to compete as the home state school at Cooper River Park MDW. I sure hope there will be a good group of RU fans to make it to Cherry Hill for the races. 5 B1G schools got in: Michigan, OSU, Rutgers, Indiana, and USC.
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