The Sicatoka

The pivotal game is the next game. "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- some guy named Lombardi

Got a note that UND is doing a pre-game party at Fargo Gastropub on Friday starting at ... 10 am.

The opening paragraph of the article was written to evoke, but not to live in reality. The answers to the Q&A are pretty much dead on: Except for this epic fail : With Minnesota basically a creature that is indistinguishable to the average citizen, it's unmarketable. And, Dr. Kelley has done one right thing and said we're not going back there. Closing thought: I knew Stanford had done Indians Cardinal. I did not know UMass had been the Redmen before the Minutemen.

Did you keep the shades?

Remember Holy Cross. That is all that need be said.

A 2 took a 15 lightly and had to work. They should've been smarter; they should've seen what some 14s did to some 3s the day before.

In the past they've used ESPN News to cover overlaps like that.

Agree. That single difference from what they did could have significantly helped attendance in South Bend (and saved HU a flight; UMTC was flying either way).

The 1 seeds are pretty simple: MSUM to South Bend, UND to Fargo, BU to Providence, Miami to Manchester. In the 4 seeds I see four eastern schools. About the only concern is do they keep Providence (not a host) in Providence, otherwise I expect "straight chalk" (1 v 16, 2 v 15, etc). In the 3 seeds I see two east, two west. My guess is they'll try to keep east east and west west for attendance and travel. Their problem is South Bend attendance with MSU-Mankato as the 1 there. They need a "name" -- Minnesota -- on the marquee there. That would put SCSU in Fargo. The 2 seeds I expect "chalk" also: 8 UNO to MSUM (which works for travel also); 7 MTU to Fargo; 6 Duluth to BU; 5 DU to Miami

You miscalculated Lakeville North's RPI again I bet.

CHN has 8 Harv 9 UNO; USCHO has 8 UNO 9 Harv. CHN has 13 QU 14 Yale ; USCHO has 13 Yale 14 QU

Interested to know how the right knee on 24 Minnesota feels about now after going into the boards hard late in the third against Michigan also.

No, Tech needs to come out fired up and wanting to hold onto that PWR4 slot, and UND needs to heed the immortal advice of Al Davis*. The rest is just minor details, because from here on out, Al's right ... and the hulls are in flames. * "Just win baby."

Getting that goal gave DU some confidence. Now it's 4-3 with 13:30 to go. Keep playing hard guys. Why not overtime. What the heck, why not a couple OTs.

Colgate 2 SLU 1 13:30 left in 2nd

This has to be about the tenth year of eligibility at MSU for McEachern. Seems like he's been there forever.

Off the MSU defender, PPG Michigan. 1-0 Ugly Buckets.

SLU and Colgate tied at 1.

Where'd you pick up that stat? You channeling Jim Dahl?

The AHA regular season champion's season is over 3:04 into OT. Mercyhurst 4 Robert Morris 3 F

If they had to give up 2 in 30 seconds at some point this season to learn the lesson from that, better now. (Too often it's been "lesson learning time" at a far worse time.) They played well, didn't seem to take any injuries, and have something to stew on for a while. Good.

Colgate --- (can't say 'red' anymore so you don't accidentally think it's Indian related) Raiders 1 St. Lawrence 0 16 left in first.

Mercyhurst ties AHA regular season champs RMU at 3 and they are headed to OT. Colgate and St. Lawrence about to drop it in Lake Placid.

ENG Lowell. 4-1 UML, under 90 seconds

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