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Let's see if I can touch base on the sprawling range of topics addressed thus far. Academics: Notre Dame is above and beyond UND when it comes to class, history and tradition - no doubt about that. I won't argue with Troller. However, I am a UND grad and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at a prestigious university in Chicago. As such, I have two points to make: 1) it doesn't really matter what school you go to as long as you make the best of your experience, and 2) prestigious, nationally-ranked universities are generally full of pretentious assholes who entertain a sense of entitlement because daddy has a fat bank account and/or intimate ties to the university. Hockey (since this is not a football forum...i think): UND is above and beyond Notre Dame when it comes to hockey - history, tradition, fans who actually follow the sport, and class (well, maybe not class considering UND injures about one opposing player per weekend, but it's good to be hated and UND appreciates it). Notre Dame has a solid hockey program, as evident by their success in the past few years, but they play in the CCHA which has like two-and-a-half good teams on a good day. They will continue to develop, prosper and instill a name for themselves, but comparing Notre Dame hockey to UND hockey can't be fairly justified yet. Notre Dame has <1 National Championships. North Dakota Academics: While neither UND or NSDU is considered a magnet school (outside of the region), both are above average nationally. UND has medicine (tops for rural medicine), law (I don't know how this program stands) and aviation (tops for everything ever), NDSU has pharmacy and...farms (excellent if you like animals and weeds, probably). Additionally, I have yet to see a Carnegie Foundation (which quantifies the economical impact of an institution on it's state) ranking system in which NDSU is placed above UND since the inception of both institutions. No matter where you go in the United States, people generally could care less that there are colleges in North Dakota. Brutal truth. However, on the national scale, UND is actually on the map - in all my travels, I've yet to encounter an individual outside of the midwest who has heard of NDSU, but that may simply be due to UND's name change issues. UND > NDSU. So, in closing, I just want to voice a few opinions: 1) The UND-UND series will certainly be exciting and the Fighting S's better not be taking the Fighting I's lightly. 2) College hockey is, nationally, a culture not comparable to college football. If EA sports ever made an NCAA college hockey game, only a few select people would buy it - but they would obsessively play the !@#$ out of it. 3) UND will never compare to Notre Dame on an academic scale, like Troller said. 4) If UND manages a sweep, maybe the Hockey East hoser's who control the USCHO/USA Hockey polls will stop bumping us down in the ranks. 5) If I see a good looking girl in Notre Dame attire at the game, there's probably a good chance I hit on her and ask her to buy me $9 Ralph Engelstad beers with daddy's money. To the Troller- 1) Stop initiating confrontations in another teams forum - we don't do that to you, probably because we don't care about NDSU. 2) NDSU is in Fargo, and no one really likes Fargo, even if they say they do. 3) Your campus makes me throw up in my mouth and bleed from the eyes. 4) On a national scale, can you honestly say your institution has a strong athletic program? Beating The Gophers doesn't count, they're bad at most things. Like hockey, which counts in this blog. 5) Obama held up a Fighting Sioux hockey stick over his head in his travels to North Dakota. I didn't even see him look at an NDSU football, not that I like Obama. 6) UND hockey is North Dakota, NDSU football is the greater Fargo/Moorhead area. 7) UND can, and always has, been able to drink NDSU under the table (irrelevant but excellent). SIOUXnation...let's prepare for a great weekend!

1 ticket available for tonights game - looking to get rid of it as soon as possible. Call or text at 701 721 1020. Thanks a bunch.

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Hey everyone- I'm interested in purchasing at least three tickets to either nights first round playoff game. Call/text me at 701 721 1020 asap. Thanks! -GTC

Hey everyone- I'm interested in purchasing at least three tickets to either nights first round playoff game. Call/text me at 701 721 1020 asap. Thanks! -GTC

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PM and E-mail sent for Saturday tickets.

I'm interested in 3 or 4 upper or lower bowl tickets to Saturday's game. Parents are coming to town - any tickets in the building will work just fine.