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Couldn't that be used as a recruiting tool!!

For this 2018 MBB season, it's interesting how these numbers pretty much came together except for a few at the bottom.

Their attendance is worse than women's hockey.

Thanks, WBB 2017 Games Attendance Avg North Dakota 15 25,706 1,714 North Dakota St. 13 9,745 750 South Dakota 14 25,636 1,831 South Dakota St 15 28,622 1,908 Omaha 13 5,850 450 Oral Roberts 13 8,236 634 Denver 13 5,562 428 Fort Wayne 13 10,632 818 Western Ill. 14 10,721 766

Nice find of average attendance, with the 2018 numbers of the 1st post in this thread, there are the last 12 years. NDSU apparently peaked in 2017, attendance came down in this season(2,757), and may slip some more for 2019. NDSU basketball is having some challenges, Bisonville is really ripping the 2 BB programs.

You hit a soft spot with our friends to the south.

That part also surprised me - the SD's, I'll try and find the ladies #'s

You could ask either of our two Presidents?

And, a couple times at that.

2017-18 Summit MBB attendance numbers. If I remember we were like 1,600 - 2,000 fans for most conference games, for the Bison we had 3,000. Home Attendance Average – Conference Games1. North Dakota State 3,1592. South Dakota State 2,9683. Omaha 2,7374. South Dakota 2,7025. Oral Roberts 2,5886. Fort Wayne 1,6227. Denver 1,1908. Western Illinois 618 Home Attendance Average – Overall1. North Dakota State 2,7572. Oral Roberts 2,4123. Omaha 2,3674. South Dakota 2,3355. South Dakota State 2,2926. Fort Wayne 1,4157. Denver 1,2048. Western Illinois 603

We don't want to win one and hang around for the 25% chance left to get to Sioux Falls. Those teams you mentioned will absolutely be motivated, and we need to take advantage of anything given us and win two! We can do it, we seem to be peaking!

If presented to us, those are the type of things we have to take advantage of.

I agree with your love, but will they be at their best? I just don't see us beating two of these teams on this Friday-Saturday with them playing all out. And, ties don't work anymore. Hoping for somewhat of a let up from the Clowns and then whoever on Saturday? Point being here, I've been in games when you don't have to win, maybe there's not the same energy. I'll take that little edge? I would venture to say that our focus during practice this week is going to be a little more subtle than that of the other three teams? I really feel we need to win two (as does Coach Berry) and we will have a good opportunity to do that. All these odds on this board so far are Pairwise numbers, nothing extra going into the analysis like a bookie would interject. What other issues are on this table? The Hawks will want the wins more so and the recent past does play in!

So no soft coaching and best skaters on the ice? I can relate to your last sentence, being we have the longest active streak getting to the NCAAs.

With a little team movement around between regions.

That's great, that'll give us a little more rest than the team playing Friday night will get, we will need it. We're the only NCHC team that really needs to win, so does that give us an advantage? How about the other coaches being a little soft on us for the possibility of lower ranked teams (with auto-bids) knocking out Penn St. & MN? Is MN a concern being the Froz4 is @ the X? I know coaches wouldn't admit to kicking game, but they sure can play soft when they have their tickets punched?

We pretty much have to, only 25% chance with 1 win.

With the last weekend left to get to the NCAAs, There are 9 teams in for sure, all bids at large at this point based on PairWise. 15 teams left for the last 7 seeds.

The B1G has only 2NotreDame & 4OhioSt left, so no lower-ranked team can win, bringing bubble down to at least 12th. The ECAC has two ranked teams 11Clarkson/3Cornell and two lower-ranked teams 25Harvard/21Princeton left. Hockey E has two ranked teams 7Northeastern/9Providence and two lower-ranked teams 15BostonC/18BostonU left. NCHC has three ranked teams 1StCloud/5Denver/8Duluth and lower-ranked 14NDak left. Atlantic and WCHA have only lower-ranked teams left so their winners are guaranteed at least 15th & 16th. If, NDak, one of the Bostons, and Harvard or Princeton win two games next weekend, the BUBBLE will burst at the 12th PairWise. Then the top 11 ranked Pairwise teams on Sunday would get into the NCAAs with the 5 lower ranked conference tournament champions. PairWise after today's play. 1 St. Cloud State 2 Notre Dame 2 Cornell 4 Ohio State 4 Denver 6 Minnesota State 7 Northeastern 8 Minnesota Duluth 8 Providence 10 Michigan 10 Clarkson 12 Penn State 13 Minnesota 14 North Dakota 15 Boston College 16 Bowling Green EDIT: If, can be a big word.

That is a great comment to this article.

I've been kind of thinking on these lines also, potential for too many non-rated teams to get into the NCAA's, then driving the bubble up. Kind of a catch 22 where we are at? Only sure way for us to be in Sioux Falls is to win the next 2.

I've noticed him handing out reps here yesterday!

That's funny, Thx.

Need Mankato, where WCHA still has 3 non-ranked teams in. I'll try ink this, in only a few words: Using PairWise as the ranking. Each of the 6 conference tournament winners obtain an auto-bid, creating the potential for non-ranked winning teams (below 16th) to become part of the 16 team NCAA National Tournament. Where those 16 teams = top ranked 16 teams less those starting from the bottom (16th) being replaced by non-ranked conference tournament winners. In short, each team is then given one of the regional rankings of 1, 2, 3, or 4 for one of 4 Regionals. Each regional winner goes to the Froz4. The B1G has NDam & Ohio St left, so no non-ranked team can win, bringing bubble down to at least 12th. The Atlantic is going to get a seed without a ranked team, so that brings the bubble up to at least 15th. ECAC, Hockey E, & NCHC all have ranked and non-ranked teams still in, as WCHA mentioned above, that's 4 auto bids left to potential non-ranked teams. That leaves the BUBBLE in the PairWise Ranking between 12th and 15th, before today's games?

OK, an ink cop would ask?