let the 2011 redemtion tour begin:
beat RPI just because they are in the way
beat DU to make up for 2004, 2005 and any other injustices
beat BC for obvious reasons
beat yale to make up for last year.
this is how I see it happening:
Green Bay:
UND vs cornell/rpi
denver vs western michigan
bridgeport:
yale vs RIT/Airforce
Union vs Duluth
St. Louis:
BC vs CC
Michigan vs UNO
Manchester:
Miami vs UNH
Merrimack vs Notre Dame
here's an interesting scenario. there is a realistic chance BC might be shippedout west. if new hampshire loses(currently 3-1 as I type this) they could realistically fall to a four seed in the tournament and therefore BC would be sent elsewhere to avoid playing them.
with duluth stumbling down the stretch. if the integrity of the final pairwise would call for them to go out east , would the committee send them out east or on a short bus ride to green bay?
there are some people out to make money on this. however my experience this time around was pretty good. I had 5 people contact me and all we offering for face value. granted I got them two weeks before we know who will be in st. paul. if the sioux are going I'm pretty sure the $$$ will go up per ticket. that said I would suggest going this route if you need tickets.
I was under the assumption that if you were offering/selling tickets on USCO you weren't suppsoed to offer them above face value as you could lose your priority number if you did?
one of them involves cc winning the final five, northeastern wins hockey east, cornell wins ecac and RIT wins atlantic hockey-in this scenario we also tie yale for the number one seed.
two things. first I see yale can lock up the #1 overall seed by LOSING this weekend and two I see that the women's committee really stuck it to the WCHA. it will be intersting to see if the same thing happens with the men's bracket.
I think we're pretty locked into the number 3 spot. however, I think the only way we would drop to four would be with some combination of us not making the final five and michigan winning the ccha tournament.
here's an interesting question. say we end up the season ranked 2 in the pairwise and the gophers or scsu sneek in as the 15th ranked team in the pairwise and there are 5 teams in the tournament from the wcha. would the committee make us play the wcha opponent in the first round as once their are five or more teams they don't have to avoid a first round match-up?
Is this true that they wanted that seed to avoid playing us? ifso bring them on and we can possibly end their season two years in a row. and if they are in our bracket that puts an end to all speculation about playing the friday night game or not.
I think that should we get by tech whether minnesota plays a friday game against us or anyone else we will play that night regardless. the majority of tickets have already been sold and we have proven to be damn near as big a draw as minnesota at the final five.
if the top two teams get byes then there is a form of reseeding going on because if the brackets are preset and there is no flexibility then if tech were to beat us then they would get a bye into fridays games.