Stuart Suss
PhD Student
Posts: 1439
Loc: Chester County, Pennsylva...
Reg: 11-21-04
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02-23-20 03:28 PM - Post#301543
Last year, on the last Saturday of the regular season, Brown arrived at Penn to play an elimination game. The winner would be the #4 seed in the Ivy tournament.
This year, on the second to last Saturday of the regular season, Penn will arrive at Brown to play what will effectively be an elimination game. Under most circumstances, the winner will be the #4 seed in the Ivy tournament.
If Brown defeats Penn:
1. Brown wins the #4 seed unless Brown loses all of its remaining three games (Princeton, at Harvard, at Dartmouth) while Penn wins all of its remaining three games (at Yale, Cornell, Columbia).
2. A Brown sweep of the home weekend (Princeton, Penn) clinches a tournament bid.
3. Brown would win any tiebreaker with Penn by reason of a sweep in the season series.
If Penn defeats Brown:
1. Penn wins the #4 seed as long as it matches Brown's record in the other three games.
2. If Penn, having won at Brown, goes 2-1 vs. Yale (away), Cornell (home) and Columbia (home), then Brown would have to sweep Princeton (home), Harvard (away) and Dartmouth (away) to clinch the #4 seed. A loss by Brown in any one of those three games would give Penn the #4 seed by tie breaker (a home win against Yale).
There are crazier scenarios, but I will stop here.
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Kwaequer
Postdoc
Posts: 3084
Age: 43
Reg: 12-20-15
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02-23-20 03:42 PM - Post#301548
In response to Stuart Suss
This is a better fate than we deserve. How disappointing that in a peak year we are left with these scenarios. I know we've had injuries. But the program is not in good shape right now.
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barryw
Sophomore
Posts: 122
Age: 78
Reg: 05-05-10
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02-23-20 04:40 PM - Post#301557
In response to Kwaequer
It is amazing that Penn still has a chance to make the playoffs with five guys who should be playing and aren't - Ryan, Bryce, Jonah, Jelani Williams, and Michael Wang.
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mrjames
Professor
Posts: 6062
Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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Re: Like last year: Penn vs. Brown for 4th place
02-23-20 10:37 PM - Post#301599
In response to Stuart Suss
Yeah, the three (and more)-team scenarios get really fun...
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