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Field Hockey Task Is SImple: Win And You're In
October 22, 2023 | Field Hockey
With one game remaining in the regular season, the task for the Princeton field hockey team is simple. Beat Yale, and advance to the Ivy League tournament.
The same, of course, is true of Yale, which makes the game Friday in New Haven (gametime 5 pm) sort of an Ivy tournament quarterfinal. The rest of the tournament is pretty straightforward as well.
Right now, Harvard is 6-0 in the league, followed by 5-1 Cornell, 4-2 Princeton and 4-2 Penn. Yale is next at 3-3. The schedule this weekend has the Princeton-Yale game Friday, with the other three games Saturday. Those three games are: Harvard at Cornell, Brown at Penn and Columbia at Dartmouth.
Harvard clinched at least a tie for the league championship Saturday with its win over Penn, and the winner of its game against Cornell will host the tournament the following weekend as the top seed. Should Cornell beat Harvard, it would get a share of the championship as well, and Harvard would be the No. 2 seed.
Should Yale defeat Princeton, it would be locked into the No. 4 seed, and that would also lock Penn into the No. 3 spot, regardless of its game against Brown, with the loser of Cornell-Harvard as the two seed.
On the other had, should Harvard beat Cornell, then Princeton could still be the No. 2 seed, if it were to beat Yale and Penn were to lose to Brown. In that case, Princeton and Cornell would both be 5-2, but Princeton defeated Cornell head-to-head. If Penn beats Brown, then the Quakers clinch the No. 3 seed no matter what, even if Princeton, Cornell and Penn all finished tied at 5-2, since Cornell would then have the tiebreaker on head-to-head goal differential and then Penn beat Princeton.
Wins by Princeton, Harvard and Brown would make Princeton the No. 3 seed. Of course, the first challenge is to get in at all.
The winner of the Ivy tournament will get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
The same, of course, is true of Yale, which makes the game Friday in New Haven (gametime 5 pm) sort of an Ivy tournament quarterfinal. The rest of the tournament is pretty straightforward as well.
Right now, Harvard is 6-0 in the league, followed by 5-1 Cornell, 4-2 Princeton and 4-2 Penn. Yale is next at 3-3. The schedule this weekend has the Princeton-Yale game Friday, with the other three games Saturday. Those three games are: Harvard at Cornell, Brown at Penn and Columbia at Dartmouth.
Harvard clinched at least a tie for the league championship Saturday with its win over Penn, and the winner of its game against Cornell will host the tournament the following weekend as the top seed. Should Cornell beat Harvard, it would get a share of the championship as well, and Harvard would be the No. 2 seed.
Should Yale defeat Princeton, it would be locked into the No. 4 seed, and that would also lock Penn into the No. 3 spot, regardless of its game against Brown, with the loser of Cornell-Harvard as the two seed.
On the other had, should Harvard beat Cornell, then Princeton could still be the No. 2 seed, if it were to beat Yale and Penn were to lose to Brown. In that case, Princeton and Cornell would both be 5-2, but Princeton defeated Cornell head-to-head. If Penn beats Brown, then the Quakers clinch the No. 3 seed no matter what, even if Princeton, Cornell and Penn all finished tied at 5-2, since Cornell would then have the tiebreaker on head-to-head goal differential and then Penn beat Princeton.
Wins by Princeton, Harvard and Brown would make Princeton the No. 3 seed. Of course, the first challenge is to get in at all.
The winner of the Ivy tournament will get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
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