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01-16-18 01:56 PM - Post#243720
In response to bradley
It was interesting that Lunardi had Princeton as the 14th seed prior to the loss to Penn. The following week and this week, he has Penn as the 15th seed which is probably based on RPI -- strength of schedule. This year, it may be challenging for Princeton, Penn, Harvard or Yale to get anything better than a 14th seed unless one of the teams finishes with a very strong IL record and then wins the IL tournament as well.
The bottom ten seeds in the tournament go to the four 15-seeds and the six 16-seeds. Lunardi is right on. Princeton now ranks approximately third in that group, just behind Bucknell and Iona.
The Tigers' main route to even a 14-seed is to win all the way out and hope for a few conference tournament upsets by middlin' teams that have a hot weekend that knocks out regular season champions like Buffalo, Missouri State, East Tennessee, Louisiana-Lafayette, and Towson, that cannot qualify for at-large berths. If a team other than Princeton wins our tournament, that team will certainly be a 15 or 16-seed.
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