“We haven’t paid a lot of attention to the other teams yet,” Minnis said. “We will let the other teams adjust to us.”

According to Voith, the Crimson will instead continue to improve upon its work from earlier in the season.

“We’re not changing anything for this tournament, but we’ll [continue to] run our new offense; we’re running our drives and picks in a different scheme,” Voith said. “And this [past] week in practice, we tightened up the intricacies of it. With any sort of system it takes time and effort and practice for everyone to be at the same pace.”

The Harvard-hosted tournament will run through Sunday and feature twelve teams, led by first-seed Bucknell (6-2).

The Crimson’s best showing in the ECAC championship was fourth place in 2002. But Voith hopes the home-pool advantage will factor favorably into his squad’s finish this year.

“When the home-game crowd comes out, they usually bring a good atmosphere,” Voith said.

As for Minnis, he wants to beat more than just Harvard’s opponents—he wants to beat expectations.

“Whenever you come into a tournament that is a seeded tournament, you want to do better than they seeded you,” Minnis said. “We came in seeded tenth, and we want to break the top nine. The season is a staircase, and we want to keep climbing it and going up.”