Thanks for the updated KRACH rankings, Tony -- that's about as much consensus as I've ever seen between KRACH and the actual rankings. Clarkson/Colgate is the only difference with a razor-thin margin in between.
Now to spoil any feeling of consensus, here are the Massey Ratings that have...
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Well, no, in that scenario, one WCHA intraconference quarterfinal is completely unavoidable according to the current rules, and the committe would have no discretion to avoid an intraconference quarterfinal. No one advocating for avoiding interconference quarterfinals is saying it should always dominate...
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One solution to the debates in this thread could be for the NCAA committee to actually somehow formalize these tradeoffs between the Pairwise criteria, reducing travel, and intraconference quarterfinals in forming pairings.
You use Pairwise Criteria to seed and select teams. Then you use...
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1v7, 2v6, 3v8 is also possible to avoid intraconference play, right?
So by the rules, the top three teams have each earned the right to play a team in the 6-8 band; those teams are to be allocated according to committee principles, which trade off "bracket integrity" vs avoiding...
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