Red herring is great word usage, Fred.
Their incredibly weak schedule had them beating Lehigh, who then turned around and beat Cornell a few weeks later, so perhaps they scheduled the better opponent?
Also, their incredibly weak schedule had them going to opens and individual tournaments that had the #1 ranked team in the country at them, so they weren't actually that incredibly weak.
At the end of the season, their incredibly weak schedule ended up setting them up to break the all time points record.
Also, it was known going in to the season that they were going to take it very light leading up to the new year due to MFS and Olympic qualifying events being of a high priority. The two years prior they went to the premier dual tournament in the Collegiate Duals.