Like I always say, it is impossible to manufacture emotion. All the tea leaves says that this championship will mean a ton to Columbia, a middling Ivy League team in a league that has not won a postseason tournament since 1975. They are hosting a UC Irvine team that will travel 2434 miles to New York.

Our power ratings have Columbia winning. Admittedly in a close game, but the aforesaid intangibles are not taken into consideration, nor the extreme travel.