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...last time I went to an ECAC playoff was the winter of '75 when Harvard made the finals and won a trip to St. Louis for the NCAA's. I remember listening to the game between Harvard and Minnesota on the radio while I was talking on the phone and nearly fainting as the Golden Gophers scored three quick goals to put Harvard out of the national championship. Needless to say, I never talked to the girl on the other end of the phone again...
...right. It also wasn't the team that went to overtime with Number One-ranked Denver over Christmas, that beat playoff-bound Brown twice, that made fools out of the Providence Friars and their empty arena on December 1, that out-freshmanned number eight finisher UNH to a 7-6 win on December...
...plethora of final standings were still possible before the last night of league play. If Columbia had polished off the Tigers after its scintillating 88-84 victory over Penn the prior night, it would have meant a playoff game Tuesday night in Princeton...
However, if Penn had lost while Princeton won, there would have been a three-way tie with the Big Three all finishing the season at 11-3. That scenario would have necessitated playoff games on Tuesday and Thursday. As it turned out, the Quakers finished 12-2, while Princeton and Columbia were both...
Coming into this final weekend of play, Penn is 11-1, Columbia is 10-2 and Princeton is 9-3 in league competition. If Columbia sweeps this weekend's games, it will require a playoff game with Penn to decide who goes to the NCAA tournament. Columbia must win at least one game to secure a berth in the National Invitational Tournament, as the second-place team in the Ivy League can usually expect an invitation...