The Sicatoka

We're planning on sending the Scandenavians after you next.

Mary was 6-1 v. Northern Sun teams last year and their loss was by 3 to C-SP* (who had to score late to win). Not bad for a newbie I'd say. * I pick C-SP because look who C-SP played in 2006.

Will it be as good as Concordia - St. Paul?

Spambot. S-P, A-M, B-O-T. Spambot.

You're kidding, right?

You would if you had Midcontinent Cable (or evil Cable One).

I'd say you'd need as many or more seats for basketball than: U of Dayton Arena (one game, the 64/65 game) HSBC Arena Rupp Arena ARCO Arena Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum United Center Nationwide Arena New Orleans Arena Spokane Memorial Arena Alamodome HP Pavilion Continental Airlines Arena Edward Jones Dome Georgia Dome Then you'd need the population base to fill it (it being not the arena but the pocket of the NCAA site selection committee*). Not because the NCAA is power and money greedy, oh no, for the student athletes. * "The manual for cities holding Final Fours requires a series of gifts to be delivered every night to the hotel rooms of NCAA officials. These mementos cost Indianapolis an estimated $25,000, said John Parry, athletic director at Butler Un iversity there." -- By MIKE McGRAW, STEVEN ROCK and KAREN DILLON - Staff Writers, Kansas City Star, Date: 10/05/97

Lee had Wheeler: - on the outside - shooting from below the dot - on a bad angle to the net - angled to the corner - and having to dive for the puck to get to it - and did it all without committing a penalty Show me in that what a defenseman is doing wrong. The problem started at the attack zone blueline: Get it in deep in OT.

The Bradley-Terry method looks to create a model of actuality based on history. Given the nature of KRACH (the Bradley-Terry method), I say it is a far better choice. The PWR still has "arbitrary" aspect to it, namely (as pointed out) 25 teams, not 20, not 30, not all, and it has RPI which is an arbitrary formula (made up of negotiated percentages of your, your opponents', and your opponents' opponents' winning percentages). My thought (and I'm about to contradict myself because I'm going to put some "arbitrary" into my plan): Let's run two KRACH calculations after the conference tournaments. One would be the currently generated full-season KRACH. The other would be the from the end of the season back to enough games to make the analysis statistically valid (that'd probably work out to be "since Christmas"). Apply a weighting to each (oops, sorry, arbitrary) and seed the tourney from that.

The team that played Saturday night was not the team that played Friday afternoon. Too many penalties. There were a couple of sightings of Porter's line, but not enough. And Kaip's line was MIA. Full, full, effort for 60, mental and physical, from everyone, and nothing else, from here out, will do.

They prefer "Landcow Arena .... - Mankato".

Doesn't "since" imply Mankato has NHL-sized ice? They don't, unless something's changed recently.

Is this "strike when the iron is hot", or is there something else going on up on the shores of Gitchigumi.

Folks chatting about all of the active games: http://board.uscho.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Hey, the winner tomorrow night doesn't worry about PWR.

I want a Broadmoor. No, I want to keep a Broadmoor.

Back to even strength. Icing on the Sioux. 8.5 seconds to play.

"One minute left to play. One minute left in the third period."

It's 6-2 with under 3 to play. Don't give up a grand slam.

In a couple years ...

Sioux penalty. Bina off at 17:36.

Under 3 to play .... 6-2 Sioux.

5:20 to go. Lamoureux another big save. 6-2 Sioux.

17,511 in the Xcel Energy Center this afternoon.

6-2 North Dakota. 9:37 left.