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Hot goaltender indeed, the NCAA selection show just noted that Stalock's SV% in the Final Five was .989, stopping 90/91 shots. Congrats UMD, what a run. Update - Melrose just picked UMD to go all the way... sorry Duluth fans

Though I agree Minnesota is out, as usual I think USCHO slightly misstates it. I don't see that UMN can actually finish higher than 15th anymore, with #17 looking most likely. BU winning pushes them to #16-17, while UML winning makes them #15 or #17 (with #16 possible but quite unlikely). Air Force matters -- if Mercyhurst wins UMN is #15-#16, if Air Force wins they're quite likely #17 (with #16 possible but unlikely). I think.

I was going to say something similar... I think of Brad's thing as more of a live blog than a chat. Every couple years someone brings up the idea of chat here (and in fact we had a chat back in the late '90s), but then most people express a preference for the permanence of threads. I do think Brad's live blog helps fill the chat void, though, making a real chat even less necessary, but it's up to you guys.

Sagard is just trying to distract us from the bigger picture. A friend of a friend's sister's cousin just sent me minutes from the secret (perhaps poorly named) "fat cat bonus meetings". You'll never guess who was in attendance. Geithner, check. Liddy, check. Dodd, check. Frank, check. Lucia, ?!?!?

Thanks to mikejm for the idea, we have a nifty new tinfoil hat smiley. I thought it deserved its own thread... I heard when they searched the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza they found.... a Gopher hole

The Gophers (and BC) will get in because the tri-lateral-commission says so.

CHN: NCAA Tournament Primer

With all of tonight's scores in EXCEPT Princeton-Cornell and BC-BU... Looks like a win tomorrow lands UND between #5-#7 A loss lands UND between #7-#10 If Yale wins, we're quite likely #7 with #6 or #8 also reasonably likely. Yale loses, we're either #5-#6 or #9-#10. This should become more clear when Cornell/Princeton is settled. The other quirk is the WCHA championship game. While Denver winning could land us #5-#9 and UMD winning could land us #5-#10, it's pretty quirky if we lose tomorrow. A Denver win pretty much guarantees us a #9 slot, but a Denver loss makes #9 incredibly unlikely while making #8 or #10 quite likely.

If you want to shoot the moon -- I have a list of what it takes for the Sioux to finish #3 in the PWR in this post.

Yeah, about 30-35% of all remaining possible outcomes (so we're assuming they're all equally likely) put UMN in the playoffs. Glancing very quickly through it, the most important to them other outcome I can find is Princeton getting swept (raises their chance up close to 60%), though that's a VERY quick assessment so I could be missing something.

It looks like falling one more spot to #15 is Minnesota's most likely outcome (35% of remaining possible scenarios), staying at #14 or dropping to #16 are the outcomes for about 20-25% of scenarios each. In about 10% of outcomes they could rise to #13 or above or fall to #17 or below.

For yesterday (Mar 18)... The Alerus Center, home of UND football, is at: 1200 S. 42nd St.

It's happening.... A new look for Sioux football

Why do I have the feeling about 10 Sioux fans just clipped that for future use, just in case. Anyway, here's my take on it all. Final Look at PWR Possibilities

All caught up (for today): UND enrolles 12748 in 202 fields of study about UND

For Mar 15 UND hockey is, at times, more popular than local politics in G.F. The news story about Joe Finley returning for his senior season (1716 views) beat out Grand Forks electing a mayor (1203 views). Schlossman's blog

For Mar. 14 2008 Football #1 RB, Steven Battle weighed in at 204 roster

For Mar. 13 The Sioux Men's hockey team began its 2008-09 campaign with a 12:05 game vs. Manitoba at Sept. 27, 2008.

For Mar. 12 My favorite Sioux hockey road trip is to the Kohl Center at: 601 W Dayton St Madison, WI 53715-1206

Probably. Down to #15 in PWR

As of all games completed right at the end of the Sioux game... #5

If you like music, you best avoid something called SongSmith from Microsoft. It was making the rounds a month or two ago, but my basic understanding is that you can upload a vocal track and it magically supplies background instrumentals. I guess the thought is that anyone who can sing can be an amateur musician. What it was actually used for, as far as I can tell, is uploading vocal tracks from real songs and their hilariously bad results to YouTube.

I had the same question. See vindy's post in this thread. The most compelling evidence, including actual seeding results from past years, suggests that USCHO is wrong, it's RPI. That's why I leave it as RPI here, though have no personal insight or knowledge beyond that.

The last couple pages are just a pissing match... a thread about the NDSU game itself, for those who are interested in it, will be welcome when it approaches.

You're right that we did last time that happened, but they've since fixed it. Autobids no longer count into the TUC comparison.