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I got the e-mail as well. Interesting that they are sending it out to UND Champions Club members. I would guess that other schools' booster club members must get some sort of presale oppurtunity as well. Tournament is Friday and Saturday March 21/22 consisting of the 4 winners from the conference quarterfinals, played at home ice of the top four regular season finishers (no real surprise on the format other than the 3rd place game). Lower bowl and first 8 rows of upper level are all one price with the remainder another price. The e-mail also states that this is a reservation only and the seat locations will be assisgned at a later date, but location is prioritized based on when you purchase your reservation.

Here are the last 10 years. Italicized games did not have the home team involved in the championship game. Only twice in the last 10 years has the host team not made the finals. No clue how these compared to the host team's average attendance during the year. I would imagine the Betty would be beyond sold out if UND was playing for a chance to go to the Dance. 2003 - 10,121 Weber over EWU in Ogden 2004 - 4,615 EWU over NAU in Cheney 2005 - 1,825 Montana over Weber in Portland 2006 - 3,163 Monanta over NAU in Flagstaff 2007 - 9,178 Weber over NAU in Ogden 2008 - 4,113 Portland St over NAU in Portland 2009 - 1,546 Portland St over Montana St in Ogden 2010 - 6,308 Montana over Weber in Ogden 2011 - 3,182 UNC over Montana in Greeley 2012 - 7,042 Montana vs. Weber in Missoula

So regular season and conference tournament championships aren't considered success to you then? You must just cringe when you see the banners for those hanging from the rafters or walls of the REA. The nerve of UND celebrating and glorifying things that some fans don't deem as success. If you think that acknowledging those as accomplishments is acting "high and mighty" than I don't know what to tell you.

You're arguing both sides here. On one hand you are saying we have had too many "NHL talented players" to not win, then you follow it up by saying we should go away from that and have less talented players because they would stick around more and we'd win a national championship. You're saying the reason those teams should have won was because of all the talent on them but you think the answer is to have less talent on the team for guys that stick around, taking spots away from the guys with all talent that are the reason you think UND should have won a national championship in the last decade. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there are many fans that don't think UND should have won a national championship over the last decade, but guess what, they haven't. A team only needs to run off 4 games in March to win a title, but you can't do that if you aren't in the tournament. There are very few teams that consistently put themself in position to do that and UND is one of them. If you can't see that, then you need to step back from the ledge and refocus.

From earlier comments made on here, I'm surprised that JJ Robertson was not on that list. I really like seeing Golladay on that list though.

I assumed he pointed as he was recognizing the great play Gleason made. He definitely shot it towards Rocco and not the net. I didn't see Rocco's comments about not touching it, but the video I saw made it look like he did. Doesn't matter either way. I do agree, none of them care who put it in, just that it went in.

I agree. It looked like Gleason shot it at Grimaldi for the tip and Rocco converted.

The uproar and meltdown from some of the hockey only fans would be amazing to watch.

No. Hakstol said that he did not want to ask any of them to break their game day routine. He followed that up by saying if possible, he would like to have all six of them come and speak at a luncheon when the season is over. Not off the top of my head. Happy how the team has grown in the last month. Last Friday's loss can be partially blamed on some self-inflicted mistakes. Spoke very highly of the group of seniors. Overall, nothing that stuck out taht I can remember. He was pretty brief today. Tom Serratore stole the show and was quite entertaining.

Faison was the one that gave him an extension last summer. Can't let him off the hook that easy!

The latest episode was shown at the booster luncheon today per Hakstol's request. Good stuff.

I agree. The first few times I saw him out there, I had some concerns about his size. His hard work and effort make up being a few inches shorter than alot of the guys he guards.

In recent years, the travel has not been all that impressive to say the least, but it wasn't all that long ago where UND fans did travel in decent numbers to away football games. There is a core group of fans/tailgaters that would make the trip to Brookings or Vermillion regardless. And if the team is doing well or coming off a successful season, I think there would be a decent showing.

Fargo would be as many tickets are availabe, which at this point isn't much. Brookings and Vermillion would be a decent showing but alot of it would depend on how the team has done on the field that year or previous year. No different from any other school, but history shows that UND does have fans that are willing to travel.

Home and home's with them are fine. Quality OOC games against teams in one of the stronger conferences. Fans can travel to relatively easy and not much strain on the travel budget for the athletic department. But I agree that "need" is a little strong. We don't "need" to play them for everyone to remember how close the schools are and the history between them.

ND Senate passes funding for Option 3 (new med school building)

As Brewster said, best of luck to both girls.

The diversion wasn't the only option, it was the preferred one. But from the way things are currently going at the local, state and federal level regarding it, I'm not so sure it is a viable one in terms of cost and likelihood to happen.

This may be sold as a pro to people in those smaller communities, but this is something that needs to be looked at.

I believe UNDsports.com has had it up for quite a while. They have the scheduled games for 2013, 2014 and 2015 on there as well (I believe it matches what is currently on the wiki).

They didn't have an FBS money game on the table until then would be my guess.

Not sure if it is related or not, but the Champions Club posted this on Facebook yesterday: Probably not related. My guess is the Champions Club announcement is more along the lines of an "annual" announcement, especially with the timing.

It was actually 4-5 for the Summit. Neither conference fared all that well on the court and it sounds like in the injury department either.

I would have enjoyed watching a healthy Braden Hanson with UND's receiving corps play against NDSU's defense. NDSU's defense could have very well shut them down, but outside of Illinois State, did NDSU play a team with a pro-style offense passing threat? Maybe UNI? As far as I know, most schools in the MVFC are more run oriented. If they did, I just can't think of anyone off hand. I think it would have been a good match-up. As for the rest of the game, on paper it says it wouldn't have been much of a battle. But that is why the play the game.

Tied with a handful of FU posters on their message board?