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...selection committee likely used something like the RPI to justify the belief that the WCHA was as strong as the ECAC and worthy of just as many berths in the national tournament. This is a terrible justification, because there simply weren't enough non-conference games for the RPI to accurately reflect the weakness of the Western teams...
...record against common opponents seems to favor Minnesota. But Minnesota played five games against Wisconsin, which finished third in the WCHA. Harvard played only one. That warps the statistics. Wins against Wisconsin were pretty easy to come by. The Badgers are a team that lost 15-0 to Northeastern and 13-2 to Dartmouth earlier in the year...
...loss left Harvard's fate in the hands of the six-person AWCHA selection committee. Brown, the ECAC champions, and Minnesota-Duluth, the WCHA champions, both earned automatic bids to the championships, leaving two at-large spots...
...third consecutive year that Minnesota had been selected for the AWCHA Tournament. The Golden Gophers got the majority of their wins from first-year hockey programs in the WCHA. Minnesota did post a respectable 7-3-0 record against teams from the ECAC...
More than just elimination is riding on this game. Two of the four bids to the AWCHA national championship tournament, which will be in Boston next weekend, have already been claimed. Brown, the ECAC regular season champion, and Minnesota-Duluth, the WCHA conference champion are already going to the frozen four...