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UND could almost have caught Denver in RPI had Harvard and Bemidji won last night. Those were very costly, especially Harvard losing to a dreadful Brown team.

I'm pretty sure the NCAA record is Don McSween from Michigan State, who played in 180 straight, his last game coming in a loss to UND in the 1987 NCAA title game. Never missed a game in his career.

Pretty good story from today's USA Today. It is the cover story for sports in the print edition. Wouldn't be surprised to see UND take this approach short term if it comes to that. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/200...-Newberry_N.htm

For actually watching the play, I think mid to high corners are the best. You get to see the play develop and see a lot of things you would otherwise miss. I remember my dad taking me to see the Bismarck Express play the Czech Junior National team and we talked to several NHL scouts, and too a man they said the best place to watch a game was from the high corners. I've done that ever since. Now if you are talking about impact and game day experience/atmosphere then there's nothing like being down on the boards.

From the last WCHA weekly press release In the event that ties are encountered in the determination of WCHA ranking or designation of home teams for playoff purposes, the following procedures will be used in the order given to break the ties: a) If two or more teams are tied, head-to-head competition during the regular (conference) season will be used to break the tie. b) If two or more teams are still tied after (a), the highest seed will go to the team with the most WCHA (conference) wins during the regular season. c) If two or more teams played a four-game series during the regular season and the teams have the same win-loss records for those series and the same number of WCHA wins, the team having the least number of goals scored against it in the four-game series shall have the higher rank. If two or more teams played a two-game series during the regular season, proceed to tie-breaker d). d) If two or more teams are still tied after applying the provisions of (a), (b) and ©, the team having the greatest ‘winning margin’ during the regular season will have the higher rank. Winning margin = WCHA goals for during the regular season minus WCHA goals against. A lot would depend on how they decide to consider the first tie breaker. Would a team have to beat every team head to head to win this tiebreaker? Would it be best overall winning percentage among the tied teams? Would it be the team that had the best series record among the team? Another factor is whether you start over after breaking the first tie. I think the first tiebreaker would be too difficult to determine with 5 teams, so they would go to the second and in that scenario, St. Cloud would be #3 as they would have 15 conference wins. #4 would depend on how Wisconsin got their two points. If it was a split, they would be #4 and Minnesota would be #5, since Wisconsin would have 14 wins and Minnesota 13. If the Sioux and Badgers tie twice, then the #4 and #5 would go to the head to head matchup (UW 2-1-1). Finally UMD and CC would have 12 league wins and the #6 would go UM-D by virtue of their 1-0-1 mark against CC. so I would predict 3. St. Cloud State 4. Wisconsin 5. Minnesota 6. Minnesota-Duluth 7. Colorado College

Jim, you are right and I should have pointed out the discrepancy, as I saw they are showing Denver ahead of Michigan right now. But, when Adam does his pre-announcement picks, he clearly knows it and that's why his predicted brackets have been right and USCHO's have not. Also in Adam's defense, his analysis of the status of the rankings is more useful that a "snapshot" of what the bracket would be right now. There are generally a few teams that are almost locked into a PWR position and therefore safe, while there are others that have a seemingly good PWR position but are hanging on to several comparisons by a thread. I personally like to know which of those teams are the latter. I'm enough of a stats geek to look at it myself, but I think Adam does a great job of analyzing it for those that can't/don't want to.

Adam Wodon has written a couple of articles in the past clarifying this. Pairwise ties are broken by RPI. It was demonstrated on a three way tie between Maine, UMass and St. Lawrence in 2007. The same held true in 2008 on a tie break between Denver and BC. USCHO's belief otherwise is part of why Jason Moy has not correctly picked the final bracket in recent years. http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007...8_final2007.php http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2008/03/24_outof.php

I'm surprised the computer says the chances are so low of moving with a sweep of the Badgers. A sweep will almost certainly flip the comparison against Denver, since the Pios only have one game and will fall behind in RPI. Also if Vermont and New Hampshire split or if UNH takes three points, I think that will allow the Sioux to pass UVM in RPI and flip that comparison, but prevent UNH from overtaking us in RPI. The ECAC and CCHA contenders are all off, so RPI changes should not be significant with them and at this point RPI moves are what will be flipping most comparisons. IF UND flips the Vermont and Denver comparisons, they would likely be at #4 and the final #1 seed. Sioux fans should be cheering hard for Michigan State now. If they win this weekend, they would play either Michigan or Notre Dame next weekend. If they could ride Jeff Lerg to an upset series win over either of those teams, the Sioux could flip that comparison as well.

Yep UND is up to #7 and if the season ended today I'd guess the brackets would go like this. Of course, luckily it doesn't and UND can continue to move up with victories. Bridgeport 2 Notre Dame 15 Air Force 7 UND 9 Yale Minneapolis 4 Denver 14 Ohio State 5 Northeastern 12 Princeton Manchester 1 BU 16 Bemidji 8 New Hampshire 10 Cornell Grand Rapids 3 Michigan 13 Minnesota Duluth 6 Vermont 11 Miami

Great ending for Senior Day. It looks like they are showing Martens' video that was on Brad Miller Time this week.

UNH wins 1-0

BC ties it up 3-3

UNH Merrimack scoreless midway thru the first. Wildcats look a little listless on senior night. And now UNH score 1-0, on their second shot of the game. 6:00 to go in the first.

yep

great interview with Lefty Curran. Gotta love him, a class act.

Natalie Nicholson is the lead for the team that will represent the USA in Vancouver. Congrats to her. Team USA should have a decent shot at medaling. http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/arti...653/group/home/

I guess since we scored, now we are allowed to have sound of the webcast.

love the shout out from steady eddie

What is also interesting is that UND is above Bakersfield, who was a serious power at the DII level. Coach Sampaio has done a great job. While there is very little chance, I'd love to see UND do everything possible to get Dagny Knutson. She would put the program on the map and could potentially be the greatest athlete to ever dawn Sioux green. There are very few North Dakotans would can be considered very realistic Olympic gold medal threats and Knutson is one of them. It would be great to keep her at home. Having here would also likely really help international recruiting, where we have done quite well in the past. Q&A with Knutson

Playing in Texas and California makes sense, that's where the players are and they can't all go to Texas and USC. Focusing west makes a lot of sense, especially as teams continue to drop like flies in those areas. That's one concern about the Great West. I think both UC-Davis and Cal Poly will likely move to FBS to rationalize the expense of football in California's economic climate. Sac. St. just seems like a program that will eventually be dropped. That will essentially eliminate small college football in the state. Several Big Sky schools also have football programs that may be in precarious positions positions. You could see a potential domino effect of UC-Davis and Cal Poly to the WAC Sac. St., Portland State and Northern Arizona to the Big West (dropping football for financial reasons) Denver, Southern Utah, UND, USD to Big Sky Big Sky would then have the enviable 10-9 format allowing for four home and away games in football each year. Travel partners would be Weber - SUU UND-USD UNC-Denver EWU-Idaho St Montana-Montana St. There's certainly not a high likelihood of all that going down, but for the most part it is pretty reasonable. And for now looking west makes sense because we are playing in a western league. Also just as important, we are marketing the school and there are a ton of students to be hooked out west, and with North Dakota's stagnant to declining youth population that is another concern.

Mavs win it in OT!! Woohoo!!!!!

6-3 BU Stick a fork in UMass

And now it's 5-3 Terriers. Shades of the 1997 Championship game. Natural hatty for Jason Lawrence.

bu closes to within 3-2 on another PPG. And now they tie it up at 3. 2:30 left in the 2nd

PPG BU 3-1 UMass 13:30 left in 2nd