Updated Div A Standings

by **Tim Gray** on Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:59 pm

With one weekend to go, here are the Div A standings:

1. Boston College - Clinches #1 seed with 2 more wins. Plays WPI, USCG and URI

2. Northeastern - Clinches # 2 seed with a win over UNH and a win over WPI or URI loss, or IF BC loses 2 games and NU wins out, they could get #1 seed.

3(t). URI - URI plays UCONN tonight. if URI wins, they are three, UNH is four and UCONN is 5. If UCONN wins UNH is 3, UCONN is 4 and URI is 5
3(t).UNH - see above. Can get #2 seed with a win over NU.

5. UCONN
6. BU - Clinches #6 seed with a win over USCG

WPI - Needs to beat BC, NU and Stonehill and have BU lose one game of remaining 2 games.

Eliminated -
Stonehill - Even if they beat WPI, and BU loses both games, they are in a tie with BU and BU owns head to head tie breaker.
Coast Guard
Bridgewater

I think I got that right.

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by **PSLguy** on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:01 pm

Some food for thought...

Assuming all conference favorites win:
MICH, LIND, UMD, SU, UGA, TAMU, NU, ORE are all in with AQs

the usual suspect At larges:
BYU, CSU, CU, AZ, UCSB (maybe), and ASU (new blood)

This leaves, assuming UCSB performs well in the WCLL's, 2 at larges for the rest of the world:

CalPoly loses to USC...this has to drop them from consideration (are they eligible for the WCLL playoffs? this is their only salvation). Utah...bad loss has to oust them.

FSU is trounced by GT in the quarters of the SELC..they need some serious favours to not be out.
UF plays VTech and UGA (#17) plays GT (#23)...anything could happen in this game... regardless UF (#19) or Vtech (#20) will go down... because of the tight middle bottom poll grouping of these best SELC teams, The only second bid I can see from the SELC is at the hands of a tight loss to, or upset of, UGA by either team in the final (depending on other conf results). A GT upset SELC victory seals in one SELC bid.

MSU... if they beat MICH tomorrow and play well but lose in the CCLA's they may be in..if the lose big..and don't show well in the tourney..it will be difficult...

If UCSB were to severely underperform in the WCLL's I could see them being left out. Thus, MSU, UCSB, winner of UF/Vtech are solidly on the bubble... Circumstances could expand this to BC, Cal Poly, SFU, and FSU

Translation: IF BC and NU have a replay in the PCLL final with a similar result (one goal difference either way) you could see a PCLL at large. (knock on wood)

by **Tim Gray** on Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:21 am

UCONN defeated URI last night, so they have the inside track on the #4 seed and URI looks like #5. UNH/NU tonight will most likely determine # 2 and #3 seeds.

by **Tim Gray** on Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:39 am

Here are the playoff standings:

BC - one seed - even if BC loses to URI, they own tie breaker vs NU.
NU - two seed - even if NU loses to BU, they own tiebreaker vs all other teams.
UCONN - three seed and hosts BU
UNH -four seed and hosts URI
URI - five seed and travels to UNH
BU - six seed and travels to UCONN

UCONN, UNH and URI are all tied for 3rd place. Head to head is the first tie breaker. They are all 1-1 with each other, so it goes to next tie breaker which is goal differential between common opponents. BC games are not included b/c UC/BC wasn't able to be rescheduled. Therefore, goal differential is:

UC +33
UNH + 29
URI +13 (+21 if they beat BSC by more than 8 Tues).

If URI loses both it remaining games, they would be tied with BU, but own the head to head tie breaker.

NU and BC have byes.

UCONN hosts BU
UNH hosts URI