Running College Hockey Thread

No man, U-M was toast for weeks. They had to win it to get in. No doubt.

There bracket will likely be awful, but that's what you get when you play shitty all season. I bet they get stuck with BC or someone in the first round.

 

Given what the field most likely will look like, I find such irony in the fact that two teams (UAH and Bemidji) in the field are from a four-team conference that won't even exist after this season. Also, UAH and RIT earning auto-bids might mean two more teams will have to watch from home.

PairWise, anyone?

http://www.uscho.com/rankings/pwr.php

Great finish in the Hockey East title game, btw, as Matt Lombardi's OT goal completed a hat trick and gave Boston College a 7-6 win over Maine.

 

Yep. Ferris State and Michigan State.

The Frozen Four committee must be slitting its wrists. They must be hoping against all hope that Michigan wins its regional, or else Ford Field is gonna look a little spacious with 15,000 fans in 65,000 seats (even U-M getting in will only boost attendance 10,000 or so).

 

From what I have seen, they are cutting Ford Field in half and putting the rink the length of the endzone instead of the middle. Won't this cut down the venue to about 35,000? I have my tickets already and it went from being on the blue line to behind the north net. My guess is they won't crack 15K for the Frozen Four games, maybe be lucky to hit 17K for the National Championship.
This should have just been sent to the Joe. I'd rather be at a packed house.

Here is a pic of the setup: http://www.ticketseating.com/seats/enlarge/8776-ford-field-frozen-four/

 

Wow, according to the Freep, 30K tix sold.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100321/SPORTS08/3210417/About-30-000-tickets-sold-already-for-Frozen-Four-Notebook

 

Last two years they had around 20k in DC and Denver.

 

The matchups, if you haven't seen yet (times EDT):

Fort Wayne, IN (Saturday-Monday)
(1) Miami (CCHA season) vs. (4) Alabama-Huntsville (CHA champ), 4 p.m.
(2) Bemidji St. (CHA season) vs. (3) Michigan (CCHA champ), 7:30 p.m.
Albany, NY (Friday-Sunday)
(1) Denver (WCHA season) vs. (4) RIT (AH champ), 3 p.m.
(2) Cornell (ECAC champ) vs. (3) New Hampshire (HE season), 6:30 p.m.
St. Paul (Friday-Sunday)
(2) St. Cloud St. vs. (3) Northern Michigan, 5:30 p.m.
(1) Wisconsin vs. (4) Vermont, 9 p.m.
Worcester, MA (Saturday-Monday)
(1) Boston College (HE champ) vs. (4) Alaska-Fairbanks, 1:30 p.m.
(2) North Dakota (WCHA champ) vs. (3) Yale (ECAC season), 5 p.m.

Interesting that there are basically five at-large berths and four of them are in the same regional.

 

Go Big Red!!!!!

 

What a GAME!

The women's final went to three - yes, count them, THREE - 20 minute overtime periods with UMD scoring with about 30 seconds left to win their (our!) fifth NCAA title.

UMD 3, Cornell 2

Kudos to Cornell. Before this season they'd never had a winning season, so to hang tough against UMD like they did - nothing to be ashamed of there.

GO BULLDOGS! I am so proud of you!

 

Not liking the CCHA-CHA regional.. what happened to spreading the wealth..
North Dakota-Yale couldn't have flopped with Bemidji-Michigan?
Pretty sad when Bemidji and St. Cloud are the teams from Minnesota...

 

How many of those were bought on spec that Michigan or Michigan State were gonna be there? 20,000 of those tickets will be dumped by scalpers for dimes on the dollar.

This whole Frozen Four is going to be a fiasco.

 

Actually, the Frozen Four (or those I've attended) attracts thousands of college hockey fans who have no affiliation with any of the teams.

It might not draw 35,000 or so, and that would serve the NCAA right for being its typical money-grubbing self and taking it out of a true hockey environment. But there will be fans there, and there will be a lot of beer sold in Detroit that weekend. A lot of beer.