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I tend to agree about placing UND in St. Louis, but I also feel there's a chance we go to Green Bay if we get paired up in a regional with Duluth, and there is a decent attendance outlook in St. Louis. In the brackets I posted, I think Michigan and Notre Dame would do OK in St. Louis.

2000. Good omen!

Here's my current brackets: Bridgeport (East) Yale vs. RIT Merrimack vs. Miami Manchester (Northeast) BC vs. Dartmouth UNO vs. UNH Green Bay (Midwest) North Dakota vs. Western Michigan Union vs. Duluth St. Louis (West) Michigan vs. Colorado College Denver vs. Notre Dame I originally had Dartmouth in the West and CC in the Northeast, but you could justify switching them for attendance purposes, while giving BC the advantage of playing an ECAC school rather than somebody from the WCHA.

Actually they do not re-seed the Frozen Four. The brackets for the NCAA tournament are set up to assume that all #1 seeds advance to the Frozen Four, where #1 would face #4 and #2 would face #3.

Frattin is 2 goals and 6 assists from matching Duncan's numbers from 2007. Considering the numbers he put up against Tech this weekend, he could come close to that next weekend. He's 12 behind Miele in total points. If he narrows that gap a bit and hangs onto the goal lead, I think he wins it. With no convincing argument for a goalie or D-man this season, I think it's going to be a 2-horse race.

Looks like the Bemidji loss dropped us down to #3 in the PWR behind BC (for now).

There's one about 2 blocks away from the Embassy Suites. I agree, maybe the best breakfast place I've ever been to.

I'm a Priority 5 and I got seats in Section C33, Row 5.

My tickets came in the mail today.

Alot of people (myself included) think that the committee will try to get North Dakota in St. Louis. Does the fact that the CCHA is the host of that regional add any weight to a CCHA team (like Michigan) getting sent there instead?

Moy's revised Bracketology: USCHO Bracketology

This could actually be Minnesota's third year in row missing the NCAA tournament. Can you imagine if UND went through a stretch like that?

Milewski posted a comment that Moy will be doing a new Bracketology in response to the fans' cries.

One could argue that the Friday afternoon game would be more advantageous for the #1 seed. You'd get to play your opponent on fairly short turnaround, and you'd have more time between the semifinal and championship game if you won. Will be interesting, but I'd be willing to bet that when the "all-set" brackets are released after the first round, Minnesota will be assured to never play an afternoon game. I guess we'll see.

I took it to mean that there won't be re-seeding after the Thursday games. In other words, the winner of the 4/5 game will play the #2 seed, and the winner of the 3/6 game will play the #1 seed, regardless of who wins that game. If this is the case, then they could look at where Minnesota is seeded after the first round and make sure they get the night games. For example, Minnesota gets the #5 seed, they could set up the 4/5 game for Thursday night and then set up the 1 vs. 4/5 winner for Friday night. Again, I don't know for sure, but this is my suspicion of how it will go down.

This is what it says on the WCHA site: I read this to mean they have some flexibility in who gets the night games. I could be wrong.

I don't agree with Moy's brackets, but in his defense, there is this one guideline:

I don't think we'll know for sure until the first round is complete. It looks like the brackets will be set up initially, and re-seeding will not be done. I assume that if Minnesota makes it they will set up the brackets so they will play the night game on Thursday, and also again on Friday if they win.

Wow, did Moy even put any thought into this weeks brackets? USCHO Bracketology First he makes moves to avoid a Denver vs. Duluth matchup, but after all of his moves, he ends up with Denver vs. Duluth again. Plus he has 3 WCHA teams in Green Bay.

Chuck Schwartz agrees with my brackets this week: Chuck Schwartz Bracketology Or maybe he copied mine!

Yeah, that loss to CC in January really hurt us. We'd be sitting ahead of Yale right now if we could have gotten the sweep that weekend.

I didn't consider Yale opponents possibly falling off the cliff. Good info!

You're forgetting one thing. No way the NCAA will allow for the possibility of an all-WCHA Frozen Four again. You switch Merrimack and Omaha and you take care of that issue, and you have better attendance at those regionals.

I think they could play Quinnipiac in the second round if there was an upset somewhere else in the first round, since re-seeding is done after the first round.. Quinnipiac is a TUC right now (barely). Then if Quinnipiac takes them to 3 games and they lose in the semifinals, I believe we could pass them. The stars would kind of have to align, but I think it's possible.

Agreed. Unfortunately I think it's going to be very hard to jump past Yale. I think they need to lose a couple games against TUC's in the ECAC tournament. In addition, I think we'd need to win the Broadmoor in order to jump them in the TUC record and flip our comparison with them. I have a feeling we are destined for #2 overall in the PWR. Playing Michigan Tech the next 4 games isn't helping our record agains TUCs, which is where we need help right now.