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The best team in the iac this fall for soccer was episcopal . They won the games when they most mattered - the end of the season.[/quote]

LOL.  EHS was 6-7-4 going into the IAC tournament.  They got very lucky to beat beat both Landon and Bullis to get to the final game.  I think they were either the last seed or the 2nd to last seed.

Calling them the best team in the IAC is laughable.  That is like saying Villanova was the best basketball team in 1985 when they had that miracle run and beat Georgetown for the championship.[/quote]

I have no trouble saying Episcopal had a great season.  The rules say if you win the tournament championship you share the league title (aka the banner), and Episcopal had a great run and deserved their tournament win.  However, the rules also say if you win the regular season you share the banner, so St. Albans had a great season too and it is also accurate to say they shared the banner.  The Washington Post (understandably) contributes to a lot of the confusion because their articles always read like only the tournament winner has "won the league."  This used to be even more apparent on the girls' side of things, in which the league tournament explicitly did not affect who got the banner -- it was all regular season -- and they would still report that the tournament winner had won the league.   (Now the ISL, like the IAC, has a shared structure where the regular season winner wins a banner and if a different team wins the tournament they do as well).

Which team is "better" overall in a situation is which one wins the regular season, one the championship, is a like the equivalent of a hot stove league baseball conversation -- fun, maybe, but nobody is generally convinced that "their" team isn't the best.[/quote]

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