I want to start this post by saying I know most of the people at NAQT and to a man I respect them. That said, I can't tell you how mad I am at the organization
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That's pretty weak. I wonder how many times in history the #2 team at *any* sectional got passed over for a nationals bid. You didn't even mention the fact that Chicago *did* get a bid, and not even a waitlisted one, either. I assume that because of the high number of teams, Chicago happened to play a tougher schedule than DePauw, and maybe that isn't the strongest field ever, but when the DII field is almost always *larger* than the DI field at Sectionals, why do *fewer* DII teams qualify (just 26
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Actually, both teams played exactly the same schedule -- they were in the same prelim bracket and both went 6-1. Then, they both made the top playoff bracket and played the four best teams from the opposite prelim bracket. So, I think the 11 games they played were against the same 11 teams. The explanation I got from NAQT was that it's "very difficult" for a team which finishes behind a team at the same sectional to get an ICT bid unless its stats are significantly better. Apparently, the greater the difference in record, the greater the difficulty of such "leap-frogging". Still, we know what happened...
Did Chicago beat DePauw head-to-head? That may have played into it, along with the superior stats, and certainly the record was not *much* different. Still, from "full bid" to "not even in waitlist top five" is pretty suspect, regardless of possible reasons.
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