MafiaMan

I have ZERO doubt that UND will be playing at 7:00pm on Thursday. Book it.

Maybe your Gopher women's hockey team can help distract you from tomorrow's NCAA men's basketball selection show. Here come your double-digit seed Gophers...

Ok, NOW Maine's out...Michigan wins...Michigan State wins...Cornell wins...TONS of opening game playoff upsets tonite! Go Beavers go!

Yikes...I thought they had lost Game 1 already...not sure why I even thought that...thanks for the correction. I've always liked Maine hockey and still believe they were hosed out of an NCAA title in 2002. Their program has really struggled the last couple of years though.

UMass-Lowell ends Maine's season tonight 4-2. Tim Whitehead, the Athletic Director will see you shortly...

Where are you staying? You could always ditch, er, leave the kids and wife at the hotel while you enjoy a good meal at the Hogger...

I work in downtown St Paul...scalpers are everywhere on game days. If you want to go badly enough, you can find tickets.

Door prizes have been ordered and will be ready for next weekend. Does anybody have anything catchy for the Hoggsbreath sign outside the bar? Tom and Jossie were kind enough to put up 'WELCOME NORTH DAKOTA FIGHTING SIOUX HOCKEY FANS' two years ago. I thought 'TO HELL WITH THE NCAA...WELCOME FIGHTING SIOUX FANS' would be pretty amusing this time around...

I have a few quality door prizes for people who do attend...would rather not blow my entire bank account on two days worth of them though.

I apologize for dragging my feet on picking a day here...just trying to get a gauge of when the Al Pearson bus and long-time Hoggsbreath brunch attendee Yane A will be in town...I expect to have this wrapped up in a day or two. Thank you for your patience.

Well, hopefully UND wins a title before then...if not, I guess I can wait until 2018. Totally off-topic, Mariucci and SiouxScore...how are you both feeling NOW about Minnesota's NCAA basketball chances? Seems to me a loss to Illinois could mean goodbye NCAA and hello NIT! Shoo-in my a**.

You would fire a coach with 12 regular season ACC championships, 13 ACC tournament championships, and 4 NCAA championships? Wow. The expecations of some fans with respect to sports is unbelievable.

The original comparison was Jack Parker in the previous post I had made on the topic.

Teams are indeed re-seeded after the first round of the playoffs.

Not being allowed to participate isn't the same thing as having a private school tournament. Did they actually have a private tournament prior to 1975?

Hey, I hate Duke as much as the next person, but there's no question that Coach K is a winner. The job he did this past Olympics was incredible. I also respect Jack Parker too. Boston U has some coach-searching to do. I wonder if UMass-Lowell is sweating bullets...

I was being facetious by trying to point out how difficult it is to win an NCAA hockey title. By comparison, Coach K at Duke has 4 NCAA basketball titles in 32 years. Would you fire him too?

40 years and only 3 NCAA titles? He should have gotten the axe AGES AGO!

Congratulations to the UMass-Lowell River Hawks for becoming the first team NOT named Boston University, Boston College, Maine, or New Hampshire to win the Hockey East regular season title. Just two years ago, this team didn't even make the HE playoffs. Wow.

Why wait until the FF to lose? Didn't Denver lose in the first round of the WCHA playoffs in 2004 and then go on to win the NCAA title a few weeks later? EDIT: Snake beat me to the punch on this scenario.

Now that's funny!

Isakson's goal came at the 19:59 mark of the 3rd period. But, go ahead, just look at the box score and call it an a$$-kicking. Using the same logic, UND outshot BSU last Saturday 30-18 and yet the entire team should be bag-skated til they puke because they embarrassed Fighting Sioux tradition with their play that night?

Playoff seedings and potential Final Five scenarios are set...let's see some more votes as people start making travel plans...

Yea, playing at 7pm on Thursday and then 2pm on Friday really is bogus.

I sent you a PM.