13otto
Masters Student
Posts: 779
Loc: Philadelphia, PA
Reg: 11-22-04
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02-15-19 10:07 AM - Post#276446
In response to 10Q
It's kind of depressing that a team that went 4-0 in the Big Five is struggling to make the Ivy Tournament. There is still plenty of hope, but the room for error is rather small. Let's get a home sweep next weekend. If we don't, that window will narrow a lot more.
The first 2/3 of this season reminds me of the 2001-02 season. We opened that season with a win at Georgia Tech (as an 11-point underdog) en route to a 6-1 start, with the lone loss being to then #2 Illinois, by 7, in a game in which we were an 18 1/2 point underdog. We would finish the 2001-02 non-conference portion of our schedule with a 13-3 record, including an outright Big 5 championship with a perfect 4-0 city series record. But we started off the Ivy League season 2-3, with losses at Harvard (RPI #174), at home vs. lowly Columbia (RPI #214) and at Yale. We were 3 full games out of first place behind 5-0 Princeton & 6-1 Yale, no longer controlling our own destiny. Harvard was 5-2, in third place. With no Ivy League Tournament, we had to win out and hope that Yale and Princeton would split, just to gain a 3-way tie. We all know how that season played out.
This season, we currently trail first-place Yale by 3 games, and second-place Cornell, Harvard & Princeton by two games each, but have to catch only one of those 4 teams. With 6 of our final 8 games at the Palestra, the odds of doing so should be more favorable than they were in 2002. It all starts this weekend at the Palestra. With a sweep, we're right where we need to be.
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