MafiaMan

The flaw is that there is no consideration for getting hot late in the season as compared with a team firing on all cylinders before Christmas. I would think being a Gopher fan, you'd be plenty familiar with leading the hockey world in being the #1 team in the country in October...only to see that come screeching to a halt come March...

Agreed. Call me old school but Phillips looked and acted like a coach tonight - right down to the suit and tie. I am still picturing Jones and the haven't-shaved-for-two-days casual-Friday look he sported against Weber State.

Please tell me to STFU again. It was classy enough the first time. Give the Bison credit - UND's players would gladly trade that win over NDSU months ago for a win over Oklahoma tonight. Congrats to NDSU on their first-ever NCAA tournament win - let's hope UND can do the same soon - next year would be great.

So much for NDSU blowin' it like i wrote just a few minutes ago...what an effort by the Bison tonight. If this was UND playing, i doubt darrell would be dissing Oklahoma's effort.

NDSU blowin' it though... How much fun would it have been to see UND make it to the round of 64 and play a game like this?

OU has about 10:00 to rack up 35 points...NDSU hanging tough...

October - 5 wins November - 5 wins December-March - 9 wins Your opinion is bizarre, not mine.

That's an indictment of the system, not Michigan. I think it was 2004 or 2005 when Mankato got on a roll while SCSU went into a tailspin...Huskies still got into the tournament and got spanked by Maine 6 or 7 to 0 while the Mavericks sat home watching.

In Jim Delaney's dreams there were 7,333 people there!

I'll again point out the fatal flaw of the pairwise...Michigan will get credit for peeling off 10 wins before their Thanksgiving dinner had settled in their stomachs whereas their record over the past FOUR MONTHS is a much better indicator of what the Wolverines really are...and that's mediocre. Mariucci...you have a call on line one...

I know you were...my post yesterday was over in UND vs Miami Friday thread...I can't multiquote over here on my iphone though. Now 9-12-3 since December 1st. If THAT record is NCAA tournament-worthy, I''ll wear a Gopher jersey to the Hogg in March 2015.

Now 9-TWELVE-3 since December 1st... Still sounds mediocre, though...

How is Michigan mediocre? Where's my post, LOL?

I thought you were only negative nilly for Sioux games, LOL!

Bye bye Michigan!

That's the exact way I would have set it up.

Dish

Six team conference makes brackets difficult...should the #1 seed get the 4-5 winner or the 3-6 winner?

C'mon, Mr Eaves...that was a pretty obvious call.

Would like to pat myself on the back for picking Harvard...but that was off-set by picking Colorado.

Was TOLD that? You mean you're not at the X in person supporting your new hockey conference?

Obviously. They are in the wrong place if they're looking for a good hockey game.

Michigan playing like this is some British Columbia exhibition game...

"And that Big 10 logo looks so good here inside Xcel Energy Center for game one of the tournament..." It's a shame nobody is there to see it, BTN.

Harvard up 6 on Cincy with 12:00 to play...