Bison137
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12-27-18 05:05 PM - Post#270196
In response to Bison89
137, thank you.
With the PL regular season about to start, the PL teams have a combined record of 57-58 as per patriotleague.org and 6 teams at 0.500 or better. I was wondering: 1. Has the PL ever had an overall winning OOC record, and 2. Have 6 or more teams ever had 0.500 or better records?
http://www.patriotleague.org/standings.aspx?path=m...
I think the high point in terms of wins and losses came in 2007-08 when the league finished five games over .500 (six if you don't count the NCAA tournament). The champ that year was American and, believe it or not, the worst record (12-19) belonged to Bucknell. The key was that there were no horrible records that year. To make it more impressive, that was the year the PL temporarily banned teams from D2/D3 games.
The previous year, the league finished at exactly .500 - one game above if you ignore the NCAA's. But that record is not as impressive because Lafayette, Lehigh, Army, and Navy all played multiple D2/D3 games.
In no year have six PL teams had .500+ records. And when the league had only eight teams, I am pretty sure that there was no year with five teams at .500+. One thing to keep in mind is that the OOC schedules in the last decade are generally a bit stronger than they were prior to that.
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