farce poobah

I'm not an expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last month. Going into the weekend, UND trailed a number of teams narrowly - and I mean narrowly - so that 3 "high impact" wins against TUC's raised UND's "TUC" comparison factor plus raised UND's RPI by enough to change 7-8 comparisons. It also helped that 2 wins were against "head to head" vs teams we had trailed (DU and MN), helping to flip those comparisons. I leave the real explanation to the experts.

There's a lot of that out there, on both sides. We just hear about the ugly stuff ....

I still get chills thinking about the sustained ovation for Dean Blais last year.

http://www.snappytv.com/shows/final-five-championship-north-dakota-vs-denver

ticketmaster.com or the Xcel box office

Those are EASTERN times. Everybody get your butts over to the X - 1230 Central on Saturday!!

He tried to check Kristo and his skate got caught along the wall ... looked like his ankle/knee may have taken the twist.

In another sweet bit of poetry seen in this fabulous season, who was the guy in possession of the puck as the horn sounded - on what might be the last games as "Fighting Sioux"? It was the 4th line forward, converted from defenseman, a freshman and a walkon if I'm not mistaken. Dan "Jim" Senkbeil. Sweet indeed.

I wouldn't be too critical about timeouts. There were plenty of TV timeouts in the middle of that Sioux rally. If you read the boxscore and look at Minnesota's minuses - and who wasn't minus! - you can get a sense of where the problems were. Although Minny's 4th line didn't rack up minuses, I don't recall seeing their 4th line - Serratore-Sacchetti-Boyd - out there very much. Link to Boxscore: http://www.fightingsioux.com/downloads2/448950.htm?ATCLID=205399206&SPSID=58684&SPID=6405&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=13500

Red Bull.

11 minutes in still 3-3

I'm hoping for an epic game that fits the epic characteristics of this rivalry. Toe to toe, no ground given. I'm also hoping for a massive Sioux fan turnout.

embarrassing also

BC vs Providence on NBC Sports Network from the Boston Garden. Looks like about 3000 people there.

Of course, if these team want to beat each other up for a couple more periods, that would be fine by me. Going to OT.

Denver looks weary. I'd rather play them tomorrow night.

Sure it helped - to inflate their statistics.

Run the table and get a #1 seed! Go SIOUX!

that was the wink wink nudge nudge part. Although I wouldn't be surprised if either MacWilliam or Forbort or both turned pro.

An outsider to the team can't help but wonder whether our redshirt goaltender might have helped the team enough this year to get them over the hump. Otherwise, moving MoLam back to the blue line definitely put a damper on the offense against a quality opponent like Minnesota.

An elite recruit on defense would likely get a lot of quality playing time next year, considering that we have some large holes to fill on D. Wink wink nudge nudge knowwhatImean knowwhatImean.

Good for them ... so we can pencil in Oshie Jr. for a scholarship in 2033. Maybe another in 2035. Nice to see him playing toward his potential - leading the Blues in scoring.

Nice results from the CCHA tonight. Four possible Cinderellas went down. Of those left, 3 of 4 have virtually clinched, and only Western Michigan is on the bubble.

Hey, UND>UM, just a reminder that teams are reseeded after the first round. If Wisconsin defeats DU, UND would move up to #3, for example.