The Sicatoka

The Game: Pick the final regular season standings in order. Ties in regular season standing points are "broken" by playoff seeding order. Hint: I'd pick UND as one and Miami as eight. Prize? Boosted self-esteem and nothing more.

And your prize for avoiding Duluth will likely be Omaha or Western.

Does anyone really want to open league playoffs with likely seventh place Duluth?

Valet bicycle parking?

21 conference regular season titles over 8 decades. 8 national titles over that same timeframe. My ice cream is too cold!

Well, they've followed the plan so far.

Your scenario left open the chance for SCSU to still get a piece of a Cup. The perfect storm hit (UND and DU each sweep) and it was an outright Cup scenario.

Benoit got valuable minutes in a pressure game with Zmolek out. That'll pay off down the road.

Don’t know to feel good for him or terrible for Miami.

Win Saturday; no worse than top three; stay out of SDSU side of bracket until beating them on their alternate home court in SF. Dance.

Every FF starting in Albany in 2001. Figured I was the jinx. 2016, FF in Tampa, I went to the west coast for a conference. We know what happened in Tampa. 2024, FF in St Paul? Now taking donations to send me to McAllen/South Padre (other side of country).

UST's law school is top 100 in the US. Their list of alumni is impressive. They have donors with money. They have lots of hidden influence in MSP. UST looks more like a Big East school than a Summit school: Large urban. Catholic. Making a big investment in BB/hockey facility. Their end game surely is not the Summit. Looking at a BEast map, they'd make 12 BB members (6E/6W) and a travel partner for Creighton. But UST hockey would need a home.

Strinden

I watched The Circus win in 1987 in the Squires main lounge. Some lovely ladies were watching it already on the best (rear projection) big screen in the Walsh Quad and they allowed me to join them.

I had you pegged as an LP vinyl guy.

Lindenwood just made significant athletics cuts; is this a "youth movement" to lower coaching salaries along the way?

I'm glad you're sure; it does.

They're in the Summit League, so, yes.

Playing in front of recruits and families does matter. No conference games in CA for the Montana schools (and Idaho) would not help them.

The OC and OL coach are tweeting about spring camp opening.

The House is just trying to even out the vig. They need a little more money on UND so they're luring with a point or two.

@Yote 53, that makes sense but the Montanas lose their CA exposure for recruiting. That's a non-starter.

Arizona State on line one for you. If UST was in the BEast, the NCHC (someday Summit Hockey) would fiind them a slot, just like they did for ASU.

And risk backlash during the BB/Hockey arena funds campaign? All in good time.

Kyrie eleison ... How many '80s kids really knew what they were saying.