OT - B10 lacrosse championship

[RUfinal4]

I see Rutgers didn't break the top 4 and is not in the tourney.

#1 MD plays #4 PSU
#2 OSU plays #3 Hopkins

Considering is it only a 6 team conference with 5 conference games I wonder if all teams should be in the tourney since you may have all 6 teams in the top 20 of the country some years. This particular year the 5th place team is top 12 in the country and reached #1 early in the season

The current rankings:
MD - 1
OSU - 7
PSU - 8
JHU - 10
RU - 12
MI - unranked

Maybe :

Day 1 (Wed): #6 vs #5
Day 2 (Thu): winner of Day 1 vs #4
Day 3 (Fri): semifinals
Day 4 (Sun): championship

The bottom 3 teams will have extra games so they will have a tough road to win the auto-NCAA berth. The back to back games also can give them a harder road since they may have tired legs or injuries. Not sure the academic schedules of each campus but Rutgers is starting exams this week so the lacrosse players (in my scenario above) would probably need to make up exams or take them in their hotels at the tournament.

 

[bigmatt718]

That way is stupid...do 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5. 1st and 2nd seeds get first round byes.

 

[wcicci]

I see Rutgers didn't break the top 4 and is not in the tourney.

#1 MD plays #4 PSU
#2 OSU plays #3 Hopkins

Considering is it only a 6 team conference with 5 conference games I wonder if all teams should be in the tourney since you may have all 6 teams in the top 20 of the country some years. This particular year the 5th place team is top 12 in the country and reached #1 early in the season

The current rankings:
MD - 1
OSU - 7
PSU - 8
JHU - 10
RU - 12
MI - unranked

Maybe :

Day 1 (Wed): #6 vs #5
Day 2 (Thu): winner of Day 1 vs #4
Day 3 (Fri): semifinals
Day 4 (Sun): championship

The bottom 3 teams will have extra games so they will have a tough road to win the auto-NCAA berth. The back to back games also can give them a harder road since they may have tired legs or injuries. Not sure the academic schedules of each campus but Rutgers is starting exams this week so the lacrosse players (in my scenario above) would probably need to make up exams or take them in their hotels at the tournament.

BIG tournament is fine. RU has s good shot at NCAAs without playing. This was an interesting year. Michigan is a decent team, but was conference whipping boy. Other than that, things pretty much went as planned. 5 strong teams that held serve at home. Only difference was RU 3OT loss to MD or top 5 are all 3-2 and locks for NCAA. Even with MD loss, RU is in position for an NCAA bid. Would probably be in w/out Delaware loss. BIG is one of top 2 conferences and RPI will always help teams, if they take care of business OOC.