NAQT ICT Results

mikeburger5 · Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:28:00 -0700

The 2001 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship
Tournament was held on the campus of Washington University
in St. Louis, Missouri. 36 teams representing 34
schools played in the Division I tournament, while 24
teams representing 24 schools played in the Division II
tournament. 11 schools had teams in both
tournaments.

The Division I tournament consisted of 6 matches for
each team that represented a representative sample of
the strength of their opponents. After this phase of
the tournament, three teams -- Chicago, Michigan A
and Princeton A -- were undefeated. After a break for
the evening, the tournament reconvened on Saturday
morning with the power match phase, where similarly
matched teams would face each other. This phase saw
Chicago remain undefeated at 11-0 while all other teams
had at least two losses. After a great lunch
presented by Washington University, the ladder play phase
took place where teams next to each other faced off to
try to climb the ladder. The following are the final
positions on the ladder for positions 3 through 36,
followed by their original position.

 3. Michigan B
(2)
 4. Illinois (7)
 5. Virginia (4)
 6.
Princeton A (8) <top undergraduate team>
 7.
Cal-Berkeley (5)
 8. Kentucky (9)
 9. Oxford (6)
10.
MIT (10)
11. Berry (12) <second place
undergraduate team>
12. Case Western (11) <third place
undergraduate team>
13. Florida (13)
14. Florida
Atlantic (14)
15. Harvard (16)
16. Wisconsin
(17)
17. Arkansas (18)
18. Texas (20)
19. Princeton
B (15)
20. Georgia (24)
21. Carleton
(19)
22. Yale (22)
23. Texas A & M (21)
24. Oklahoma
(25)
25. Iowa (26)
26. Cal Tech (29)
27. Oregon
(24)
28. Duke (30)
29. Bowling Green (27)
30.
Wichita State (33)
31. Williams (28)
32. Michigan
St. (32)
33. Pittsburgh (34)
34. Penn
(31)
35. DePauw (35)
36. Tennessee-Chattanooga
(36)

The final two positions would be determined by a
playoff where the holder of the 2nd place position would
have to defeat the 1st place position twice. Michigan
A, holder of the 2nd place position, was unable to
dethrone Chicago as the latter needed only a single game
to be the champion of Division I.

In Division
II, the 24 teams were divided into two brackets --
Lewis and Clark -- and each bracket played a
round-robin, after which each bracket would be split into
three groups and combined with the same group from the
other bracket. After that round, the standings were as
follows (wins in parentheses):

Lewis:
Pittsburgh-11, Princeton-10, Cal-Berkeley-8, Illinois-7*,
Sewanee-7, Occidental-6, Yale-4, Brandeis-4**, Oklahoma-4,
Carleton-3, Johns Hopkins-2, Simon Fraser-0
*Defeated
Sewanee in tie-breaker game to be in top
group.
**Defeated Oklahoma in tie-breaker game to be in middle
group.

Clark: Emory-11, Stanford-10, Georgetown-8, Chicago-7,
Marlyand-5, Florida-5, Northwestern-5, Yeshiva-4*, New
York-4*, Missouri-Rolla-4*, USC-3, Michigan-0
*Yeshiva
defeated New York and Missouri-Rolla in tie-breaker games
to be in middle group.

Four more games were
played to complete the round-robin in each of these
three groups. In addition, since there was not a
two-game lead, a playoff game was played between
Pittsburgh (with no losses) and Emory (with one loss).
Pittsburgh won that game and became the Division II
champion.

Top Group: Pittsburgh-15, Emory-14, Princeton-13,
Stanford-12, Cal-Berkeley-10, Georgetown-9, Chicago-8,
Illinois-7

Middle Group: Sewanee-10, Occidental-8, Northwestern-8,
Maryland-7, Yale-7, Florida-6, Brandeis-6,
Yeshiva-4

Bottom Group: Missouri-Rolla-7, Oklahoma-7, Carleton-7,
New York-6, USC-5, Johns Hopkins-2, Michigan-2, Simon
Fraser-0