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Hak's weekly press conference... He just talked to Danny's parents and reiterated that he's not going to say anything more about the injury, the family wants privacy. He has no timeframe for return, frostbite is serious, he's beginning treatment. Asked if Danny violated any team rules, he said no. It's best to assume my summary is incorrect and watch it yourself, before trying to quote me anywhere.... <object width="480" height="301" id="embed" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://www.fightingsioux.com/mediaPortal/embed.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="flashVars" value="catid=9814&id=749073&img=http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/640/GZ/GZCAVBYXXNRWSOH.20110202212434.jpg&server=http://www.fightingsioux.com/XML/titanv3/&pageurl=http://www.fightingsioux.com/mediaPortal/&jtv=13500&skin=13500&gaa=UA-8563605-2&tremorprogid=49c162c7563e1&nlwa=http://track1.neulion.com/jtvsp/13500/" /><embed name="embed" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://www.fightingsioux.com/mediaPortal/embed.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="301" quality="high" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashVars="catid=9814&id=749073&img=http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/640/GZ/GZCAVBYXXNRWSOH.20110202212434.jpg&server=http://www.fightingsioux.com/XML/titanv3/&pageurl=http://www.fightingsioux.com/mediaPortal/&jtv=13500&skin=13500&gaa=UA-8563605-2&tremorprogid=49c162c7563e1&nlwa=http://track1.neulion.com/jtvsp/13500/"></embed></object>

At least one of these is pretty familiar to people who search for online streams of UND hockey games... U.S. seizes 10 sports streaming websites

It seems to be related to Facebook -- Discussion of it on Facebook: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=312579 Facebook bug report: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14971 Google "bootloader_Zvucx" and it seems quite widespread (affecting a lot of sites and other software that integrates w/Facebook, e.g. vBulletin). I'll see if I can turn off the Facebook integration until we can find out more about it.

I haven't helped in ages, so I tried to get together some good stuff as we drive toward 500! Jan 26 In 2010, Senior Travis Bledsoe became the 30th member of the 1,000-point club in UND men’s basketball history. He opened the second half of a home win over Utah Valley (Feb. 20) with a 3-pointer. It was a fitting way for Bledsoe to join the elite club since 522 of his career points had come via 3-pointers. Jan 27 Head hockey coach Barry Thorndycraft, in the third of his four-year coaching career at UND won his only NCAA title in 1963. Thorndycraft finished his coaching career at UND with a 71-65-8 (.521) mark from 1959-64. Jan 28 In 1993, the UND football team led by coach Roger Thomas advanced in the D-II playoffs for the first time. They opened the 10-3 season with a 52-0 win over Southern Conn. St. Jan 29 The transitioning Sioux football team opened its 2010 campaign at Idaho. The game was a defensive duel until, at 5:19 in the 2nd quarter Nathan Enderle hit Justin Vultung on a 44-yard TD pass, putting the Vandals up 17-0 and firmly in control of the game. Idaho went on to win 45-0. Jan 30 Bill Reichart was one of the most prolific goal-scorers in early Sioux history. He appears numerous times in the UND record books, including still sharing the individual record (with Bob Joyce) for points in a game, with 9 vs. Minnesota Duluth in 1954; and 3rd all-time in points per game with 1.84 (behind Hrkac and Cherski). In the 1954-55 campaign, his first, the season goals and points leader helped UND to a .518 win percentage. Jan 31 Coming into the 2010-11 season, the UND men's hockey team was 15-14-0 (.517) all-time in Achorage, Alaska. In contrast, UND was 25-3-3 (.855) vs Alaska-Anchorage at home. Feb 1 Coming into the 2010-2011 season, Gene Roebuck's women's basketball teams had gone 516-77 and won 11 NCC championships since 1990. Roebuck has produced the WBCA Player of the Year four times since 1995 and has had eight NCC MVPs. He has also had 19 players be named All-American and 52 players become All-NCC.

Bye week is my favorite PWR forecasting week, so I had to get it fired up... Idle UND hockey team could climb to #1 in PWR this weekend Ok, the headline was a little sensationalistic... UND has something like a 7% chance of landing at #1 (all scenarios undoubtedly involve losing both its games, and then a little luck for UND). #2-#3 is quite likely. I've also updated the rankings pages on SiouxSports. I mostly made a lot more columns sortable, but in light of all the interest in comparing SOS this season (for obvious reasons) added KRACH and RPI SOS to the rankings comparisons table. NCAA Division I - College Hockey Rankings Comparison

No problem, I can add back links to those as "expanded" versions or something. While I was personally thrilled to come up with a way to get all the information onto the screen at once, I can definitely see how it could be quite dense and overwhelming.

Edit -- Oh, I think I just figured out what you mean. You mean you preferred details pages like this over the new ones?

I agree. I try to check USCHO's table (that you linked to) now and then but didn't yesterday, but the PWR here had UND at #4 before last night's game and back up to #3 (unchanged from last week) after the win. The temporary drop was because our common opponents comparison with Denver went to Denver when the Sioux lost, but then back to UND when the Sioux won (Denver didn't play).

Man, even more pressure for the Sioux to pull this out. A sweep this weekend would put the Sioux in decent shape to take the Yale comparison in PWR, while anything less would doom it (due to COP).

Yeah, I don't know what's up with the change. SiouxSports still says 7:35MT because it's taking the game details from USCHO (where that's still what it says as of now... USCHO schedule). In the past, USCHO has usually done a pretty good job on the schedule/results, so I'm inclined to consider this a freak glitch unless it happens again.

Staal takes... WARD! (goes for his buddy) Lidstrom takes... Stamkos (no surprise there). Green (for Staal) takes... Ovie.

Only 10 minutes left until the All-Star draft. Looking forward to the schoolyard style pick-em. I don't really expect an answer, since the draft is only 10 minutes away, but what are the odds the first two picks are anything other than Stamkos and Ovie?

I think your "sure the Sioux wouldn't be able to play Minnesota or Iowa" is the key problem... A few schools (Wisconsin also) were developing policies of not playing UND because we were under NCAA sanctions, and (as much as Douple is to be believed) it was causing some aggravation with potential conferences. I wonder if a lot of schools who were happy to look the other way when the issue was unsettled would feel the need to blacklist UND once we were officially snubbing the NCAA and under active sanctions? But, you're right, we certainly could've waited for that to happen rather than hide from the mere threat of it. However, your question could also be extended to -- how much do we care about possibly being able to host a home FCS football game? Even in the Big Sky, if we kept the name we'd just have to give up home playoff games. I wonder how that would be handled -- would it automatically revert to the lesser team, or could we choose a neutral spot (e.g. Fargodome?) I suppose the former, because even if it weren't held at the Alerus, UND would still be "hosting".

It was mentioned a few weeks/pages back, but one PWR aspect of this weekend's series worth remembering- CC is the only common opponent scheduled between Yale and UND this year. Yale won the game, for a 1.000 COP record vs. UND. If UND does anything other than sweep CC, to also achieve a 1.000 COP record, Yale will take the COP comparison with UND. That would give Yale a 3-0 comparison lead, meaning that even if UND went on to take RPI it wouldn't be enough to win the comparison anymore. If UND sweeps CC, COP will be a wash for that comparison and UND will only need to take RPI to win the comparison with Yale.

I like where you predicted UND's 8th D-I championship. Will that be this year? Men's, I assume?

Well, we didn't restrict voting to Sioux fans, so I'm pretty sure that at least 22 people who read this thread want Hak fired, immediately!

Vikes fan, I cheer against the Packers the rest of the season, but would prefer to see them take it over the Steelers. I suppose I could look this up, but I feel like Superbowls lately have been sleepy, defensive affairs compared to the way I remember them in the 90s. It would be kind of fun to see Green Bay give the Steelers the Atlanta treatment, but I suppose that's pretty unlikely.

It's all good, it deserves a thread Plus, you found a version on YouTube, which is much handier than the "vimeo" I previously posted...

Though some prefer the Woog analogy, I always think of Denny Green and the Vikings. I was certainly among those calling for his head. Sure, he was bringing home 10 win seasons and making the playoffs every year, but he was never making it to the Superbowl. Green must just not be good at preparing them for the big games, I thought. Surely another coach could take this talented a team and get better results. That may have been true, Green may simply have been incapable of translating regular season success to playoff success, I really don't know. But, I did spend the next decade missing 10-win seasons and annual playoff appearances. Yeah, I know what you mean. I actually went into the game in Denver excited to see B.C., thinking surely UND would have them figured out. The loss to Denver in Columbus was just a bummer, but every loss since then has been sort of playing the same team.

You, my friend, get a +.

Yeah, that's the tweak that CHN broke a couple days ago. I hit briefly on the biggest impacts for UND here:: * The new TUCs gave UND an additional 4-0-1 in their vs. TUCs winning percentage, quite helpful * The new TUCs moved a lot of teams like Yale and Maine closer to meeting the threshold of 10 games vs TUCs, but that seems not to matter anymore

After learning about the TUC change, apparently the guys at USCHO pulled out the 2010 championship handbook and noticed that the 10 games vs. TUCs rule doesn't appear anywhere in the 2010 championship handbook (last year's), whereas the 2009 handbook still noted for TUC: "This category if used only if the two teams being compared have played a minimum of ten games versus “teams under consideration”." http://www.uscho.com/2011/01/19/committee-makes-another-change-to-ncaa-tournament-selection-criteria/ It never really mattered much, in that almost every team in serious contention played 10 vs TUCs (it was a weird patch put in place after one team from a lesser conference dominated the TUC comparisons because it had only played a few TUCs one year), and really doesn't matter anymore now that the definition of a TUC is so expanded. As I mentioned above... If TUC is finally in play vs. Maine, UND does now take the comparison, so is only losing the comparison vs. Yale. PWR (updated w/both CHN and USCHO's patches)

Yeah, check out the "share" button in the upper right. I do it with the KRACH predicts the NCAA tournament each year, like this: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aij8vsohBIXlcERONlBGclVwaTNjNzdPVE1IMk1DZlE&hl=en

Yeah, I just saw that on CHN. Committee Tweaks Pairwise Criteria for 2011 CHN has historically been very reliable on PWR calculations and seems to have great inside scoops with the committee, so I believe them. Here it is -- PWR Updated to include RPI >= .500 as TUCs The biggest immediate impact for UND is that adding RPI ranks 26-34 (see RPI table) as TUCs expands the TUC field enough to virtually guarantee that TUC becomes a comparison criterion for all the top teams (remember that the "minimum of 10 games vs. TUCs" rule was recently added as a patch for the reduced number of TUCs brought about by the previous change from RPI >.500 to top 25 in RPI). Overall, UND gains 5 games vs. TUCs, in which the Sioux went a helpful 4-0-1 (.800). Versus Maine, for example, Maine gained two games in which it went 0-1-1. As TUC comes into play vs Maine, remember that UND has the tie-breaker, RPI, and is likely to hold onto it. So, once TUC comes into play UND will overcome the 0-2 head-to-head and take the comparison. The change does also give Yale 4 more TUC games, enough to bring the TUC criterion into play. As much as could be hoped for given Yale's record, those additions bring in a loss (3-1-0 overall), bringing Yale to a .900 record so far. The Sioux, with their additions, are now at .7200. BUT, keep in mind that there's no way UND can take the COP comparison with Yale, so TUC vs. them doesn't really matter, we simply need RPI. Bottom line -- at least looking at the comparisons with the two teams currently above UND, adding more TUCs helps UND. The story may be different if UND underperforms this Spring.