More Than Just A Trophy: Women’s Beanpot Championship & Consolation Hold Major Pairwise Implications

It’s Beanpot Tuesday! Yay!

But Boston College isn’t playing for the title! Boo!

Harvard and Boston University both pulled upsets in the Beanpot semifinals, sending Northeastern and Boston College to the consolation game at 5pm. As disappointing as that is for both BC and NU, both games on Tuesday have huge Pairwise implications for the three ranked teams involved — BC and BU in particular.

Let’s take a look at what the Pairwise looks like today.

Unless there are some upsets in the conference tournaments, the top 7 in the Pairwise will make it to the NCAA tournament (the eighth and final spot will be filled with the CHA champion, whose highest ranked team, Robert Morris, is ranked 16th).