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I was a little greedier, trading for an Elite 8 win and a trip to the Final Four. Such a tourney run keeps your school in the headlines for almost a month and is nearly as good as winning the tournament. And for UND it would likely mean additional exposure for Hockey, as announcers would be saying stuff like "while this is a Cinderella run for the North Dakota basketball team, they are the North Carolina of college hockey." There would almost certainly also be tons of references to Phil Jackson. George Mason's Final Four run brought benefits not only in terms of exposure, but in an increase in number and quality of applicants. While I'm sure that will have some diminishing returns it will last for a while.

Tech scores to go up 1-0 on CC

Robert Morris knocks off Bemidji 7-5 and will face Alabama-Huntsville tomorrow afternoon for the first confirmed ticket to the NCAAs. It will be the first trip for either school and only the third season of the program for Bobby Mo. Could be this year's Holy Cross.

Going to OT in St. Cloud, 2-2

St. Cloud scores for a 1-0 lead with 3:00 in the 1st against Duluth

UMass just scores to go up 4-1 up Maine, late in the 2nd, looking for the sweep.

You have five years to use four years of eligibility, so playing in the USHL would indeed save a year. See Quinn Fylling as an example. It would be the equivalent of a red-shirt.

Alabama-Huntsville scores 9:30 into overtime to defeat Wayne State 4-3 an advance to the CHA semifinals against Niagara. The Chargers scored 4 straight after Wayne opened a 3-0 lead.

3-1 UMD final

Duluth kills off penalty and maintains 2-1 lead with 17 to go in 3rd. Alabama-Huntsville scores to pull within 3-2 of Wayne State in the CHA Final Five play in

UMD scores to go up 2-1 Out East UNH 6-0 final over Providence to win series UMass 3-2 over Maine final

UMass scores coming out of the box now 3-1 over Maine, and UNH up on PC 6-0

UMass just scored to go up 2-1 on Maine

North Central Region in Grand Forks 1 North Dakota 8 MSU Moorhead 4 Regis 5 Metro St. 3 South Dakota 6 Concordia St. Paul 2 Augustana 7 Nebraska Kearney Full bracket here http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/women...ewable/2007/DII

webcast quality is outstanding. announcers, not so much.

I have a presale code for The Police at Xcel Energy, but won't be able to go. PM me if you want it. I think you can only get singles at this point, but it is good until Noon CT today. Not asking for any cash, but if you can hook me up with some Sioux tickets somewhere down the line, I wouldn't turn them down.

The Hall of Fame game has an exemption, so they would be able to.

I'd love to see Michigan come to the Ralph for the Hall of Fame game.

But UND has also been pretty strong in golf, tennis and of course swimming, which they don't have at NDSU. I'd say the programs are fairly even overall, with each putting a focus on specific sports and excelling at those. That makes a lot of sense. I'd rather have a mixture of great and poor programs than a full slate of middling teams.

I had thought about a relegation/promotion scenario as well, but pulling one team from the WCHA and three from the CCHA, so all three leagues would be at nine teams. The relegation/promotion would also occur only once every five years, with the bottom teams from the the CCHA and WCHA over that stretch moving to the CHA, while the top CHA team over that period would move to the league or their choice and the second place team would move to the other league. This allows you to maintain the core schools competing together and some of the other NCAA rules and helps create more stability for scheduling purposes. I know it has virtually no chance of happening, but it is probably one of the few places a European style relegation/promotion system could work.

You're correct, although I was more referring to the general student body that just the players themselves.

I think the only way the Nickel should be up for grabs is if the series resumes. That means games every year, alternating between the schools as the history of the series has been. No one off games, no 2-for-1s. Possession of the Nickel is about the only bargaining chip UND has right now, but I think it's a pretty important one. You can't tell me that with the Bison not eligible for the post season that a winning the Nickel would have been huge, and likewise for UND in the next few years. The posturing now is very non-North Dakotan and as a UND alum and North Dakota native it makes me quite sad. If there is no matchup in 2007, both schools will graduate there first classes that never experienced a Sioux-Bison game. There's no need for that.

I hope this isn't the mindset of the University and the athletic department. FCS football is nice, but the Big Dance is what can put a school on the map.

Can anyone open the webcast directly in media player? get codec error messages when i try to.

I have to admit I never understood how this matchup came about. A North Dakota-South Dakota game would seem to make a lot more sense. And for Montana, Idaho seems the more likely rival.