NYSioux

I believe that even if Furman wins there are a couple other things that have to happen to potentially take up an additional at-large. IIRC, ETSU losing and Furman holding Mercer to 16 points or less. If this is misstated, please someone jump in to correct me.

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We have four heading to "The Bench" just off the Long Island Rail Road at 3:00 for pregame!

You may be right. I'm no expert in either system, however, I did see a lot comments about how we were lucky to have such a system in place rather than a committee that can screw us over like in football. Whether the Pairwise is a fair system can be argued, but whether it is objective and determines which teams get into the tournament cannot. The second point cannot be said for the RPI in basketball.

My bad. I thought you were distinguishing the national championship from frozen four appearances. That was more side commentary though. From an objective view, the rankings are similar, although skewed slightly higher to NCHC on the top end. From a personal opinion perspective, I think we would see the Big Ten turn into a pretty strong conference with the addition of Notre Dame and UND. I am happy with UND being in the NCHC, but I think games against Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan every year would be a great thing for our team and our fans. I also think that Penn State shows a lot of promise in the short time they have had as a DI hockey club.

If you compare an 8 team NCHC with an 8 team Big Ten (including UND and Notre Dame) objectively based on last years final pairwise rankings, I think the NCHC is still better, but it is not as lopsided as some might think. Here are the rankings based on the app on my phone(including tied rankings): NCHC #2, #3, #6, #14, #17, #26, #43, #55 Big Ten #3, #6, #12, #18, #22, #31, #40, #47 I understand the argument that the league made us more playoff ready, but I disagree with it. The first two years in the NCHC, the results were similar to the 10 years that preceded it. I think that if you consistently put together good teams and put yourself in a position to win, things are going to work out in your favor.

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The assistant commissioner was pretty vocal about it on Twitter yesterday.

I certainly wouldn't argue that the MVFC is a stronger conference overall. Unfortunately, the committee went out of its way with the WIU selection. To me, it's not even about just western Illinois. UND should have been safely in the field ahead of a few teams (including WIU). I thought I needed just a day to vent, but it might be a 9 month recovery process . I can't imagine how some of the seniors are feeling.

I disagree. The NCAA did an excellent job scheduling two easy bus rides with Western Illinois. With EIU there's um......I got nothing

I agree with this. Much like the last team left out of the basketball tournament, there are always plenty of opportunities that have been missed that said team controlled, but did not do what needed to be done. I'm just a little bit grouchy about how a couple of the selections were made. Overall I'm very happy with a 7-4 season. I have had the outlook for a while now that it would only be a matter of time until we reached a consistent playoff caliber level. This team's future is very, very bright

To be fair, I was replying to the quote where you said UND lost to the last place team in the conference and followed with "Ballgame", which is why we do not need to go any further than comparing our resume than to EIU's. With regard to WIU, your comparing wins against WYO and Portland State to wins against SDSU and N. Iowa. Those are probably pretty comparable, but I would take the WYO and PSU wins both on the road on top of the better overall record. No doubt it is inexcusable to lose to Idaho State at home and that is the reason why we sit where we do today, but I don't think the committee was justified in making that decision.

Well, we did beat the 6 seed on the road. Perhaps you can point out EIU's most impressive win?