03-19-22 12:44 PM - Post#339578 In response to mountainred
The point of my original post on this was that in the era before the Ivies started holding the thingy after the regular season, Princeton would likely have been a 13 seed and so would probably not have faced Purdue. I was not suggesting that the committee gives a damn about the outcome of the “championship” game. I agree that having that game a few hours before the brackets are released very well could mean that the committee hedges its bets in most years (eg. If Princeton was a #13 and Yale a #15, just slot the Ivy team in at the 14.)