The start of the Brown series has been pushed back another day due to inclement weather. So much for catching Brown short-staffed. Both teams should have everyone available tomorrow rest-wise--hopefully there aren't any class commitments that will complicate matters for Harvard.
Those looking for a way to pass the time on this rainy afternoon should check out the NY Times Sunday magazine. The author of Moneyball has another must-read piece on two products of the Oakland farm system and the modern game's warped obsession with power stats. Somewhere there's a joke to be made about whizzinators, but it hasn't come to me just yet.
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Dartmouth and Yale are playing, however.
Dartmouth and Yale split. Should this back-and-forth continue, it will make this Brown-Harvard series ever more important. With Dartmouth alread four back in the loss column, they're hoping for a split in this series to give them a chance next weekend to sweep Harvard and take the division title (with some help from Yale in their face-off against Brown). Dartmouth almost has to take 2 tomorrow to give themselves a chance.
The goal for Harvard has to be to take at least 3 out of 4. That would give them a healthy cushion heading into the Dartmouth series. Brown's hoping for the same obviously. Should one of them actually get 3 out of 4, that puts the loser of the series in the position of having to sweep next weekend and hope the winner this weekend splits (or worse) next weekend -- tough spot to be in. The lesson of this whole story is how big a difference one game can make this weekend -- a split versus 3 out of 4.
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