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ooh and btw if your searching for an article or interview in the GFH from the wbb coach telling a reporter how he learned from coaching at other high level institutions the importance nutrition has on size strength speed athleticism agility and maintaining  game shape is to the current team he is coaching you wont find that, he came from mayville

Straight pairing’s:    Albany Michigan (1) v Bentley (16) UMD (8) v Penn State (9)   Sioux Falls UND (2) v Merrimack (15) Providence (7) v Quinnipiac (10)   Worcester Michigan St (3) v UConn (14) Dartmouth (6) v Cornell (11)   Loveland Western Mich (4) v Mankato (13) Denver (5) v Wisconsin (12)   My Objectives:  No conference matchups in 1st round.  Keep as close to strict pairings as possible.  Help attendance if possible with very minimal pairings changes.    Teams that are close in NPI: PSU & Q are only separated by .02 in NPI.  Cornell & Wisconsin by .13 Providence & UMD by .16   Conference matchups: Have to breakup Dartmouth & Cornell. Logical swap is Cornell & Wisconsin since they are closest in NPI.    Attendance issues? Possibly in Albany. Swap Penn St and Q.  Only a .02 difference in NPI   Might not be needed if Penn St fans travel well. It’s about 5 hours to Albany.    New brackets: Albany Michigan (1) v Bentley (16) UMD (8) v Quinnipiac (10)   Bentley is 2.5 hours from Albany Q is 2.5 hours.    Sioux Falls UND (2) v Merrimack (15) Providence (7) v  Penn State (9)   Worcester Michigan St (3) v UConn (14) Dartmouth (6) v  Wisconsin (12)   UConn is 1 hour from Worcester.  Dartmouth is 2.5 hours.    Loveland Western Mich (4) v Mankato (13) Denver (5) v Cornell (11)

I just realized that Michael Emerson is on the Merrimack roster. Remember him? Had a great USHL year with the Steel averaging over a pt/gm, then came to UND as a FR in fall of 2023. Only played 6 games in the first half...didn't get a single point...and then went back to the Steel in the USHL. Ended up at Merrimack for the last two years. Crazy.

NCAA swapping teams for attendance is a joke…most regionals attendance is well under 50%.

wonder how many times our low budget wbb coaching staff used the free services of its newly hired full time UND athletics dietician hired for football and hockey mainly i assume to help with the dietary requirements of the wbb team? judging by cardboard greasy pizza boxes for post game meal after NDSU wbb game in Fargo id guess not very much, guessing she wouldnt approve but anyways meet dietician Jennifer Haugen, a key piece to Eric Schmidt's vision of bigger, stronger and faster - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports,  https://share.google/jgg8ZgTaj66ZJ3KNZ