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Boston University celebrates its 39th Beanpot championship Monday night (photo: Kyle Prudhomme).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am an interested observer who lives in Beanpot land and to be honest, the Beanpot seems like such a meaningless tournament to much of the country every year.<\/p>\n

And as someone who has lived in Massachusetts his whole life, why should anyone care about a Beanpot? I will tell you why:<\/p>\n

The Beanpot is somewhat provincial. If you\u2019re not from either Boston University, Boston College, Harvard or Northeastern, you don\u2019t have role in the manifestation of the related events.<\/p>\n

Well, unless you\u2019re in the surrounding majority of teams in the PairWise.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it. Monday\u2019s championship game between Boston University and Northeastern was as much about the majority of fans that love the schools as it was about the minority of interested observers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d said Northeastern coach Jerry Keefe when asked if he realized what Monday\u2019s loss meant toward his team’s NCAA tournament position. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reality is that Monday hurt Northeastern in many ways. It wasn\u2019t simply not capturing the school\u2019s fourth straight Beanpot that was lost. Northeastern now sits on the wrong side of the PairWise bubble, in 17th position, at least two spots from an NCAA at-large bid.<\/p>\n

A few days earlier, the Huskies basked in the glow of a win over UMass Lowell that rose them to 14th in the PairWise, comfortably above the bubble of the NCAA electors. Those are the nice moments of the PairWise bubble.<\/p>\n

That also shows the volatility of a rankings system like the PairWise.<\/p>\n

The other side of the Beanpot felt much better for Boston University on Monday. The Terriers rose to 14th \u2013 inside the NCAA tournament bubble. Something not a lot of people saw coming. Raise your hand if you saw any hope for the Terries on December 1 when at that point BU was 43rd in the PairWise and had just lost the club\u2019s flagship game, a contest against Cornell.<\/p>\n

Hands down. You\u2019re all liars.<\/p>\n

But as we reached Monday and now Tuesday morning, you have to take coach Albie O\u2019Connell at his word. His team has delivered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s more buy-in from the group,\u201d said O\u2019Connell. \u201cGuys are playing for each other more. They\u2019re more concerned with scoring goals that the highlight reel goals. They\u2019re showing up every day in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

This may not be a race to the finish line for any of the Beanpot teams, but for Monday, at least, Boston University had a race to celebrate at the local pub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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