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Friday - LaPoint Saturday - Genoway

throw it into the end zone. UGH!

Need to move a viable return man into that spot where they keep lob kicking to and make them pay for that. We should be starting every drive at midfield.

Hopefully they just air it out in the second half. They aren't getting much pass rush. Just let Landry win this one instead of this stubborn insistence on establishing the run.

screen play is killing the Sioux

Flipping through the channels this morning and happened on the Mavs and Bulldogs from last night. If Charter and Midcontinent are sharing programming that's great. Might get some Sioux road games live on FSSN at least for cable and K-Band dish viewers. I haven't seen any announcement of this but it would be great news.

I could see bringing in Princeton and Yale for a Thanksgiving tourney with Bemidji - sort of like this years with Miami and Ohio State. Then you go out east for single games there. You give alums in the DC, Philly, NYC and even Boston areas a chance to catch a game. Also single games are better for pairwise purposes.

I think every game should be worth the same number of points, so if you want to reward an overtime/shootout loss I think you need to go win in regulation - 3 points win in OT/shootout - 2 points loss in OT/shootout - 1point loss in regulation - 0 points

If you get in Friday and are a music fan you may want to check out the Buddy Holly center. Lubbock was his hometown and it appears they will be having a birthday celebration the weekend of the game.

I'd like to see the tourney changed to eliminate the regionals and go to a format more like baseball. The bracket is seeded 1 to 16 with inter-conference matchups avoided in the first round and also second round if possible. The bracket is then set up Weekend one (same as now)- 1st Round - best of three series at higher seed. - 8 advance Weekend two (Final Four weekend)- 2nd Round - best of three series at higher seed. - 4 advance Frozen Four (same as now) - Neutral site single elimination as it is now. This eliminates the problem of weak attendance at regionals and increases the likelihood that the best teams reach the Frozen Four. There are also at least twice as many games in the first two rounds (read - more $$) with likely much larger gates.

Also, the BU and UMass games were part of the Icebreaker, and Exempted Tournament.

In the last year or two DU-CC has surpassed UND-MN.

Home and home would be awesome, especially if the game at Stony Brook is in September. You could catch a Yankees or Mets game on the weekend and make a real trip of it in NYC. In the next couple of years it would be great to get a series with Maine or UNH and pair it with a hockey series.

Teams that leave the Continental US for games have those exempted. It is true for all sports. It's why teams will play Hawaii in football and why you have basketball tourneys like the Maui Classic and Great Alaska Shootout. It applies to Puerto Rico as well. A local team has to be involved though, be it in the game or at least the tournament. So for example, Duke and Georgetown couldn't just randomly schedule a game in Hawaii and not count it against the game limit.

Here you go! http://www.med.und.nodak.edu/publicaffairs...00903162015.pdf

Looks like UND is headed back to Gemini if this website is any indication. http://www.geminiathleticwear.com/

11 teams is easy. You cut to a 20 game league schedule - play five series at home and five series away. Then the traditional rivals just schedule each other to fill out the nonconference schedule. The 11th place team misses the playoffs (or you have a play-in game between 10 and 11) and then it's business as usual to the Final Five. Those talking about dumping UAA or Tech are crazy. Tech has a long history and is a founding member of the league, and there is also the MacNaughton Cup factor. As for UAA, playing up there provides the exemption and extra games which are helpful to the bottom line. Also, UAA once made an NCAA tourney run prior to coming into the league. Bemidji's run to the Frozen Four is a great story, but let's remember that they only had to win two games to do it. This is also the same team that struggled to beat Robert Morris to even get to the tournament. Success in the CHA is a lot different than success in the WCHA. To think Bemidji should just come in and displace established league members is pretty naive. I agree that Bemidji shouldn't be left to twist in the wind, but neither should UAH, and we definitely shouldn't create that problem for Tech or UAA.

Also interesting that Mankato came out of the WCHA bracket at the Elite 8, beating Michigan Tech in the quarters and Alaska Anchorage in the semis.

The biggest problem is that for some reason people think it should be impossible for the RPI to drop when you win a game. That's not an invalid result at all. The problem would be if somehow a win hurt your RPI and a loss helped it. But in the cases when a win still drops your RPI, a loss would have dropped it much more. The RPI, like the PWR, are supposed to be looked at only at the end of the season, when you can view things in totality. I think a move back to the old RPI is appropriate, but I also think both the TUC and COP should be the RPIs for those games rather than the actual record, with the TUC limit dropped to 8 and a COP limit of at least 2 opponents added.

Yep, I'm really hoping to see Yale at 4 and UND at 5 in the pairwise. I really don't want to see the Sioux have to go to Mariucci, where the big sheet puts a premium on special teams and it's a lot more difficult to cycle the puck. Hopefully this year will be the last time you'll ever see a tourney game on Olympic ice.

Here's what I would see as an ideal scenario You have specified the following tournament results: * Hockey East Semifinal #2: Northeastern defeats Mass.-Lowell. * Hockey East Semifinal #1: Boston University defeats Boston College. * Hockey East Championship game: Boston University defeats Northeastern. * ECAC Semifinal #2: Cornell defeats Princeton. * ECAC Semifinal #1: Yale defeats St. Lawrence. * ECAC Championship game: Yale defeats Cornell. * ECAC Consolation game: St. Lawrence defeats Princeton. * Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #2: RIT defeats Mercyhurst. * Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #1: Air Force defeats Bentley. * Atlantic Hockey Championship game: Air Force defeats RIT. * CCHA Semifinal #2: Michigan defeats Alaska. * CCHA Semifinal #1: Notre Dame defeats Northern Michigan. * CCHA Championship game: Notre Dame defeats Michigan. * CCHA Consolation game: Alaska defeats Northern Michigan. * WCHA Play-in #1: Minnesota defeats Minnesota-Duluth. * WCHA Semifinal #2: Wisconsin defeats Denver. * WCHA Semifinal #1: North Dakota defeats Minnesota. * WCHA Championship game: North Dakota defeats Wisconsin. * WCHA Consolation game: Minnesota defeats Denver. Which would spit out the following pairings Overall 1- BU 2- Notre Dame 3- Michigan 4- Yale In Manchester 1 BU - 4 Bemidji and 2 UNH - 3 Cornell In Bridgeport 1 Yale - 4 Air Force and 2 UND - Miami In Minneapolis 1 Michigan - 4 St. Lawrence and 2 Northeastern - 3 Minnesota In Grand Rapids 1 Notre Dame - 4 Minnesota-Duluth and 2 Denver - 3 Vermont The two eastern brackets would meet in one semi and the two western ones would meet in the other. It falls pretty much to form, with only switchs of St. Lawrence/Air Force and Vermont/Cornell to avoid in-conference first round matchups.

I think you are going to start seeing more of that. Many of the major conferences have their women's tourneys early so they don't conflict with the men. North Carolina decided to hold back a game so that they could play in what would have otherwise been an almost two week layoff. I'd love to see UND make an offer to Tennessee or UCONN or somebody for such a game next year. It's a risk we can take since we aren't NCAA tourney eligible and an impressive showing could open the door to a WNIT invite. There won't be a lot of potential opponents available, so hopefully it's something that Roebuck and Faison are looking at.

If MSU is not a TUC, it looks like the only way the Sioux can get a #1 seed is if they win the Final Five and Denver loses the third place game. So results that would be beneficial it getting Mankato back to TUC status are Alaska losing to Ohio State tonight, RIT losing in the AHA semis or Northern Michigan losing in the semis and third place game of the CCHA tourney. Those are the only teams that are close enough to falling and even then I would say an RIT loss is the only sure thing - the other results would make it pretty tight. Due to our loss to Michigan State, comparisons against Notre Dame and Michigan are unwinnable, as is the one with BU, so flipping Denver is the only hope to move that final step up.

IF RPI can beat Cornell tonight, they would play Yale in the semis and even with Mankato a TUC, Yale would max out at 9 TUC games. If Northern Michigan and RIT lose, UAA could sneak back in as a TUC as well.

Bemidji punches the first ticket to the dance. Matt Read with the winner. Good luck against BU!