Dave Reischman’s varsity eight is going to have to prove it on the water – but that’s always been the way. The final seeding poll for the Eastern Sprints finds SU moving up one spot to the six seed – meaning it will face off with top-seeded Brown, #7 Northeastern, #12 Dartmouth, #13 George Washington and #18 Rutgers in the morning heat. The top two move on to the Grand Final.
Syracuse trailed Brown by about three-quarters of a length in the final at the San Diego Crew Classic March 28 and defeated the Northeastern Huskies by a length. SU’s third place finish (Cal won) vaulted the Orange to a number five ranking in the first US Rowing Collegiate poll. But before the first EARC poll came out a split-second loss to Cornell in awful conditions at Annapolis put the Orange at #8 in the East and dropped them to #10 in the US Rowing Poll with Washington and Cal on top.
There’s been some shuffling since then but even though the Orange crew has climbed back over Princeton and Wisconsin in the USRowing Poll, it has not been able to do it in the EARC poll. SU does not face Wisconsin or Princeton before the Sprints.
SU’s JV eight also is seeded sixth at the Sprints, setting up a heat with #1 Brown, Yale or BU (tied for 7th) Northeastern and Penn.
The frosh, who have seen limited action this season are seeded eighth and will face Cornell, Princeton, Wisconsin, Northeastern and George Washington.
Please, No Wagering – the CMax Rankings
All crews in the league are off this weekend. SU is in final exams, which come much later for at least some of the Ivies. That gives your writer some time to muse on the CMax rankings – a system that rates all crews based on performance and surmises how they’d do against each other in an “average standardized race.”
Going into the race against Washington last weekend, SU’s varsity eight was rated 8.5 seconds behind the Huskies. The Orange lost by 9.8 seconds and that’s where they rate this week. It’s tougher to do when crews don’t face each other but Chris Maxwell has been managing since coming up with CMax in 2002.
Syracuse trailed Brown by about three-quarters of a length in the final at the San Diego Crew Classic March 28 and defeated the Northeastern Huskies by a length. SU’s third place finish (Cal won) vaulted the Orange to a number five ranking in the first US Rowing Collegiate poll. But before the first EARC poll came out a split-second loss to Cornell in awful conditions at Annapolis put the Orange at #8 in the East and dropped them to #10 in the US Rowing Poll with Washington and Cal on top.
There’s been some shuffling since then but even though the Orange crew has climbed back over Princeton and Wisconsin in the USRowing Poll, it has not been able to do it in the EARC poll. SU does not face Wisconsin or Princeton before the Sprints.
SU’s JV eight also is seeded sixth at the Sprints, setting up a heat with #1 Brown, Yale or BU (tied for 7th) Northeastern and Penn.
The frosh, who have seen limited action this season are seeded eighth and will face Cornell, Princeton, Wisconsin, Northeastern and George Washington.
Please, No Wagering – the CMax Rankings
All crews in the league are off this weekend. SU is in final exams, which come much later for at least some of the Ivies. That gives your writer some time to muse on the CMax rankings – a system that rates all crews based on performance and surmises how they’d do against each other in an “average standardized race.”
Going into the race against Washington last weekend, SU’s varsity eight was rated 8.5 seconds behind the Huskies. The Orange lost by 9.8 seconds and that’s where they rate this week. It’s tougher to do when crews don’t face each other but Chris Maxwell has been managing since coming up with CMax in 2002.
If the rankings are correct, Brown is about a half length faster than SU (1.9 seconds) and SU is about a length faster than Northeastern (3.8 seconds). Funny enough, the Orange are rated .8 seconds faster than Wisconsin and 1.1 faster than Princeton.
To put it another way – “you could throw a blanket over them.” Coach Dave Reischman said several weeks ago that there are “eight or nine crews that could be in the medals hunt at the Sprints.” Not much has changed since then. It should be some amazing racing.
Polls courtesy of row2k.com
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