MafiaMan

I believe I had the years mixed up... the 1997-1998 WCHA Final Five was held at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The 1998-1999 Western Regional was held at the Dane Co. Coliseum in Madison. West Regional, March 27-28 Dane County Coliseum; Madison, Wisconsin All times are Central. March 27, 1 p.m.: No. 3 seed Colorado College (28-11-1) vs. No. 6 seed St. Lawrence (23-12-3). March 27, 4:30 p.m.: No. 4 seed Boston College (25-11-4) vs. No. 5 seed Northern Michigan (22-14-5). March 28, 2 p.m.: Winner of Colorado College/St. Lawrence vs. No. 2 seed Michigan State (28-5-7). March 28, 5:30 p.m.: Winner of Boston College/Northern Michigan vs. No. 1 seed North Dakota (32-5-2).

Explain Class B basketball in ND being much better attended than Class A then.

I haven't had much luck either but I believe the rules are different for boys and girls hockey. BSM won the A title a while back and is now playing in the AA bracket. The main idea with the two-tier system was to give more teams the opportunity to play in the state tournament, particularly the small schools. Instead, you've seen teams sandbag and stay in the A level when you could really make the argument that they should be playing AA. Like I mentioned with the girls, the biggest manipulation I have seen was SSP winning AA and then announcing a switch back to A for the following season (which they promptly won).

I've always told people...if they reunited the 1980 Soviet Olympic team and had them play an exhibition game against Minnesota at Mariucci, I'd be sitting in the stands proudly wearing my red CCCP jersey screaming "Let's Go Commies!".

Three fun facts: The Sioux are 0-0-1 since Brett Favre retired.

Just win, baby!

In terms of seeding, not an upset, you're correct. I think Gopher fans are expecting that their team will find the solution starting next weekend. They're going to be disappointed.

How many #1's made it to last year's Frozen Four?

You heard it here first: If it's Minny vs Mankato in the first-round, the Purple Cows will pull off the upset.

I'll watch for you at the Final Five in a few weeks.

Take a couple of Advil and take a nap.

She loves me!

I take back my earlier for you and replace it with

Congratulations Colorado College on a well-played WCHA regular season! Now let's get ready for a wild WCHA playoff season! Go Sioux!

Right again!

I agree 100%!

Ugh...just got home from Joe Senser's...thanks for bummin' me out.

I hear a good back-rub would get rid of that. I'll volunteer to help.

I can leave BIG at 7:45 and be at Joe Senser's by 8:15 (gotta take MM Jr to his mom's house first). Anyone want to save me a seat?

That's funny how this applies to the NCAA but if I'm a Boy Scout who doesn't want to say 'God,' I find a lawyer who files suit against the club. You apparently CAN have it both ways.

Michigan via where ever they came from.

Cmon, Big A HG, Aaron Rogers is still better than Jackson, Grossman, and Kitna!

It's pretty much accepted that the best team in Minnesota is the AA champion.

Why not add another 17 classes and make it like football here?

That and Chris Harrington received a special "Sparky Jock Strap Waiver" from the NCAA so he's coming back for a few more years beginning in 2009. :