And a couple to make us feel better.

And a couple to make us feel better.
by basicbasket (2018-04-09 12:28:29)
Edited on 2018-04-09 12:29:19

In reply to: So a few numbers to make us feel worse...! :) posted by wearendhockey

The record of 1 seeds vs. lower seeds in the semifinal and final games since 1981 (when it went to 8 teams) is 33-32. In the NCAA basketball tournament, by contrast, the record of 1 seeds vs. lower seeds since 1985 (when it went to 64 teams) is 34-15. That suggests a higher degree of parity and/or randomness to me.

Its a Sweet 16 tournament

The gap between 1 and 16 varies for each college sport but when we’re talking about SPORT variation...there’s just too little margin in hockey for single game elimination.

There was a MUCH bigger gap between SCSU and Aur Force in this hear’s Tourney and AF handled them no problem.

We were playing the last at large team in but we were also playing last year’s runner up. We were undoubtedly the better team over the course of the year but they were more ready for that game and likely would have been over any other team too.