{"id":291,"date":"2008-03-15T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/blogs\/d-i-womens-hockey\/david-de-remer\/20080315\/harvard-earns-its-tickets-to-duluth.html"},"modified":"2008-03-15T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:27:14","slug":"harvard-earns-its-tickets-to-duluth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2008\/03\/15\/harvard-earns-its-tickets-to-duluth\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard earns its tickets to Duluth"},"content":{"rendered":"
No big surprises in No. 1 Harvard’s 5-1 NCAA women’s quarterfinal win over Dartmouth. Harvard proves once again why it was the best in the ECAC this season. The attendance of 1497 was solid, but I was hoping for a little better. It was up from Harvard’s 2005 NCAA quarterfinal, the triple overtime win over Mercyhurst which was seen by 1,013.<\/p>\n
One characteristic of this Harvard team is that it handles pressure well. This Harvard team has been much more loose, relaxed, and joyous than past Crimson No. 1 teams. Such attitude should be an asset for the Crimson going forward.<\/p>\n
One downside for Harvard is this year’s edition is the first since the WCHA’s existence not to play a WCHA team during the regular season. Now in the NCAA semifinals, Harvard will be assured of facing a WCHA opponent. Harvard lost its only game against a non-ECAC NCAA team this season by a 4-1 margin to UNH, so this Crimson team still has plenty to prove at the national level.<\/p>\n
More thoughts on intraconference play in the NCAA tournament — it is fair to allow for it in cases in which the No. 1 team and the No. 8 team are from the same conferences, and there is a big gap in the selection criteria between No. 1 and 2 and No. 7 and 8. That was the surely case this season. This debate was also relevant in 2006, when it looked as if No. 1 UNH would have a tough quarterfinal against No. 7 Mercyhurst against a much weaker No. 8 BC, but Harvard pulled off a surprising ECAC tourney win and made that debate irrelevant. Protecting the No. 1 seed in a tournament is a noble goal, although it sure makes for a less interesting quarterfinal matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No big surprises in No. 1 Harvard’s 5-1 NCAA women’s quarterfinal win over Dartmouth. Harvard proves once again why it was the best in the ECAC this season. The attendance of 1497 was solid, but I was hoping for a little better. It was up from Harvard’s 2005 NCAA quarterfinal, the triple overtime win over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1449],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n