farce poobah

I can't believe the Minnesota state high school tournament uses WCHA refs.

How much money does it take? (Just curious.)

Seriously this time, Ballard has a tremendous one-timer. So much so that the UND penalty kill "shadows" him by keeping a forward higher than usual to keep him from getting room to get it off.

The shuffling makes sense to me ... If we're going to go very deep into the playoffs, we'll need the first line scoring consistently, and the chemistry with Stafford-Murray-Parise seems better than with Genoway. Just IMHO. Schneider played a lot with Smaby earlier this year, but the chemistry with Bina seems better. Like that pairing.

Maine at 6-1 offers good potential payoff. Ditto UNH at 8-1, considering they get "home ice" for regionals. Of course the only winning tickets will say NORTH DAKOTA on them.

Since this will happen in future years too, the UND men's (and soon women's) hockey teams are likely to host playoffs more often than not, this seems like a significant disadvantage to putting the hoops teams in the same spot. Did UND kiss goodbye to hosting basketball regionals or what?

He can hurl a broom with the best of them.

TOP TEN Rookie Scoring - WCHA games (from collegehockeystats.com): 1 Brady Murray North Dakota 16-15-31 2 David Backes Minnesota State 12-10-22 3 Drew Stafford North Dakota 4-17-21 4 Robbie Earl Wisconsin 13- 7-20 5 Matt Carle Denver 4-15-19 Taggart Desmet Michigan Tech 9-10-19 7 Kyle Peto Minnesota State 3-14-17 8 Jake Dowell Wisconsin 5-11-16 Ryan Suter Wisconsin 3-13-16 Chris Porter North Dakota 7-9-16 Of course, if you want to pick a goalie: 2 Jordan Parise North Dakota FR 813:30 29 2.14 4 Matt Zaba Colorado College FR 991:55 40 2.42 8 Kellen Briggs Minnesota FR 1390:31 63 2.72 10 Tim Boron St. Cloud State FR 561:55 30 3.20 15 Bryce Luker Michigan Tech FR 741:40 58 4.69

Because he had to beat JPar to do it, and the league is starting to realize how hard that is ...

OK, I have a question: Yale lost Friday on an overtime goal at 18:42 Yale lost Saturday on an overtime goal at 5:14 For the purposes of PWR, how do these games go in Yale's books? Two ties, since the overtime goals were scored after 5 minutes? Two losses? I should know this but I forget...

WBB Final - 80-71 Sioux. So, Sioux win the last football game, the last men's hoops game, and perhaps the last women's hoops game. Good thing we're kicking those inferior landcows off the schedule.

68-58 Sioux lead

Sioux lead Bison 30-21.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? Well too bad. This was no miracle. These guys are just plain the best.

WAY TO GO SIOUX!!!! YEEEE-HAAA!!!!

Zip it.

FINAL FROM MADISON: 2-2 tie. One more domino falls. One more to go. GO SIOUX!!!!!

Dear Zach, I have sinned. I have cheered for the Dogs when I should have cheered for the Badgers. I just could not get past the old saying "Better Dead Than Red".

I know that the Sioux win the cup if UMD loses, but it sucks to have UMD get tied up on a 5x3 with 3.5 minutes left...

Like heck it is. I'll take final night of the WCHA.

I thought the American Institute for the Blind sent all their alumni to become WCHA refs...

NO! NO! NO! Putting human error back into the mix would be royally stupid. Because it puts politics, money, backstabbing, etc in over merit. Leave it a formula. Improve the formula and tell everyone beforehand, but leave it a formula. Some of us remember UND getting screwed in 1983 and don't want to ever go back to a political system. UND, WCHA runnerup left out of the field, while 4th place UMD, whose AD just happened to be the chair of the selection committee, got in over us and CCHA champ Bowling Green.) Just say no. Please.

heh heh, and you guys just about pulled it off. As for this year, just be taking care of business and it looks like you'll get the afternoon semifinal....

I think next year we should send the Rodents gift certificates to a hair salon before we play them.