mrjames
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01-30-18 05:42 PM - Post#245182
In response to penn nation
From a wins perspective we'd have to go way back.
To be fair, though, a LOT of Ivies have played competitively in Column 1 and 2 games (Brown took a Tier 1 oppt - Provy - to overtime; Cornell has a Tier 2 win at Toledo; Penn has a Tier 2 win at Dayton; Harvard was close in a bunch of Tier 2 ones; Columbia was close in some Tier 2 games, etc.). The game score averages are pretty middle of the pack, which would indicate that this isn't the worst OOC performance we've seen - it just didn't generate a lot of notable wins.
There are usually about 8 or so upsets in conf tourney play of which most of the 16 line gets populated. If there are more than usual, it can have a real effect to push teams up to surprising heights. And the one-bid league discussion won't get to the detail of "what USC team Princeton faced." That'll be a seed-line changing win for the Tigers.
But yeah, with a reasonable year of upsets, 13 is probably not realistic.
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