
Defender John Cowdrick (Lexington, Mass.) and Trinity face Bowdoin in their NESCAC opener on Saturday. (Trinity Athletics)
The NESCAC entered the final night of conference play with some choke points in the standings and plenty of questions about who could host and who may not make the conference tournament.
Still, by Wednesday, the “playoff soup” had clarified itself into a spicy broth.
Amherst’s midweek win over Trinity vaulted it up the NESCAC standings and into the No. 4 seed for the conference tournament which begins Saturday.
The highly-competitive NESCAC has five teams ranked in the Top 20 this week and had six at one time this season. Let's look at the quarterfinal matchups.