cberkas
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What could he have done that the coaching staff let him go?
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3 hours ago, siouxforcefans said:
I'm talking a borderline, and just posing the question. Say 3 bottom tear teams win their tournaments, and only the top 13 pairwise get in. Would it be out of the question to treat hockey like every other one of the NCAA sports, and find an excuse to flip the 12 and 13 overall? Maybe it is - Hockey has been much more mathematical in the decisions than basketball, football, etc., but I just posed it as a "Do you think they would?" type of question. You definitely answered "No."
Every other sport has a human element ranking teams, where hockey has only the PWR.
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3 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Can you tell I think "the avoiding interconference matchups in first round" thing is ridiculous. Not overthinking anything trust me. I get what the NCAA is trying to do or is doing......that doesn't make it right or even that it makes any sense but I do get it.
Get rid of it and expand to a 24 team tournament 6 team per regional with the 1 and 2 seeds getting a bye. I think that will make the tournament more exciting.
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1 minute ago, The Sicatoka said:
#1 seeds (in order of PWR): UMD, DU, WMU, BU
#4 seeds (random order): blah, blah, blah, UND
UND as host must be in Fargo.
They can easily avoid a first-round match-up by sending BU to Fargo.
Think of 2014 when Mankato got South Bend, UND hosted Fargo, and Miami the got Providence. Miami is closer to South Bend but had to go East.
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Jeff Sauer has died from pancreatic cancer.
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The only thing that will happen is, they will find a way to keep one conference from have a team in each regional or better know as the "WCHA Rule." Unless they can avoid a inter conference matchup i the 1st round.
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2 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Ummmmmmmmmmm..........I don't work or have any affiliation with the NCAA. I guess I am if common sense is the issue.
I don't ether but its not hard to figure out the guidelines after Moy does each of his brackets every week.
1 minute ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:Is the underlying message here that if we get in it's as a 4 seed?
No, UND could be a 2 seed and maybe a 1 seed if a lot of things go UND's way, like winning out the rest of the year.
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The NCAA should just expand the tournament to 24 teams giving the 1 and 2 seeds a bye in each regional.
Then DaveK can talk about all the B1G teams that make the tournament and we can talk about 7 of 8 NCHC teams making the tournament.
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56 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Maybe I'm trying to make too much of sense of this but I can't see under any circumstances where if BU is a #1 seed that they won't be in Providence. It is a shorter drive than me heading to the Ralph from Fargo. A #1 seed winds up getting penalized because a #4 seed at a host site can't play a interconference team in the first round. I guess as long as my team is actually playing at their hosting site I'm good with whatever is decided on selection day.
You are making this way harder then it needs to be.
If there are three 1 seeds from the NCHC and one NCHC team is a 4 seed and BU is the one of the 1 seeds they will play the NCHC team even if UND is that 4 seed and BU is the #1 overall seed.
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1 minute ago, SJHovey said:
Let's say that UMD, DU and Western Michigan all end up as #1 seeds, and we end up a #4. Let's also assume BU is the other #1 seed, and that there are only four NCHC teams in the tournament.
There is no doubt in my mind that BU would be coming to Fargo, UNLESS one fact existed. If BU were the overall #1 see there is a chance they would go ahead and match up NCHC teams in Fargo, but even in that scenario I still think it would be about 55/45 BU would be here. There are two holies of holies for the NCAA. The host team plays at home and no first round matchups between conference members unless it completely destroys bracket integrity.
Still wouldn't matter if BU was the #1 overall they'd be in Fargo to avoid the inter conference 1st round match up if UND was a 4 seed.
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2 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
I'd be pretty surprised to see them flip our seed like that. Has that ever happened? Honestly not being confrontational, but do you remember this ever happening?
Only thing close I can think of is when Wisconsin made the tourney when they were below .500 but hosted the regional at the Kohl Center. We beat them anyway
... Since then they added that under .500 rule.
That's not really the same situation here, I guess.
Won't happen, you are seeded were you are seeded no grey area.
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12 minutes ago, siouxforcefans said:
Let me throw a wrench in the "Pairwise rules all matchups" scenario: Say there's a couple of schools that win their conference tournament and get in, but wouldn't be in otherwise. If UND is within 1 - 2 spots of a 3 seed, but PW says should be a 4, I'm thinking they may get assigned a 3 seed, just so UMD can get put in Fargo while avoiding a round 1 matchup. No proof, but I wouldn't be surprised.
They'd be a 4 seed, if Duluth is the #1 overall they get the #16 team. This has been broken with the #1 team playing the #15 team
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7 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
BU is a bus ride to to Providence. Union is a bus ride to Manchester. Hypothetically those 2 teams could be #1 seeds. If they both are at that time of NCAA selection do one of them get shipped by plane to Fargo to avoid a NCHC first round match up in Fargo if UMD is #1 seed and UMD goes east by plane when they could bus to Fargo?
Yes, one of them would be in Fargo if UND or let's say Omaha or St. Cloud at a 4 seed and Denver and Duluth at a 1 seed.
Most likely Duluth or Denver in Fargo if UND is a 2 or 3 seed. Then if St. Cloud or Omaha are a 4 seed they will go to one of the other 3 regionals.
NCHC has the possibility to get 5 or 6 teams in.
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If UND and Miami (if Miami gets in) are both 4 seeds and Duluth and Denver are 1 seeds. Duluth and Denver will not be in Fargo or Cincinnati, now if Duluth, Denver, and Western Michigan were all 1 seeds and UND and Miami were 4 seeds one of those teams would be in Fargo or Cincinnati the other two would be out East.
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They will avoid putting Duluth, Denver, and Western Michigan in Fargo if UND is a 4 seed. The only way they would have two NCHC teams play each other in the first round is if it can't be avoided.
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"We have a turd in the punch bowl."
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Just now, DaveK said:
- Michigan - 9
- Wisconsin - 6
- Minnesota - 5
- Michigan State - 3
9+6+5+3 = 23
and then some moron will chime in with "Yeah but, they won those titles when they were members of the WCHA/CCHA..."
To which I will reply...
I DON'T CARE!!! THEY'RE IN THE BIG TEN NOW, THEREFORE THE SCHOOLS THAT MAKE UP THE BIG TEN HAVE 23 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. END OF ARGUMENT, I WIN.
But the WCHA won 37.
For someone who is 46 you sure act like a 6 year old.
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2 hours ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:
They should turn it into the NCHC/Big Ten challenge. Have UND, Duluth, Wisco, and the goofs.
Could replace the Cupcake Classic.
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I hope one day the NCAA selection committee doesn't follow Moy's bracket. I'm starting to believe the committee just waits for Moy to put out his bracket and uses it.
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7 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
They underestimated Grant Potulney back in the day then Lozott recently and now Johnson?
Didn't Potulney's dad demanded Blais take his kids and Blais told him where the door was?
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20 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
Is there video of the second goal Tomek let in Friday night?
Edit: I saw it. I heard the slapshot was deflected. Because the resolution was so bad I couldnt really tell. Sounds like both goals were deflected and Berry wanted to get the guys going a bit.
It didn't look deflected at all Shaw was too far away and Poolman gave up on the back check.
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3 minutes ago, Blackheart said:
When I think of DaveK posting here I always come back to this...
I just thought of South Park haha.
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There is more arrogance on GPL then there is ever on here, They wear it as a badge of honor.
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No collegiate athletic conference – in any sport – can top the impressive list of national scale accomplishments of the WCHA. Since 1951, teams representing this Association have earned a record 37 men's national championships and finished as the national runner-up another 27 times. - See more at: http://wcha.com/men/wcha/index.php#sthash.MMHSNCn3.dpuf
But DaveK said the B1G has won the most national titles, I guess those are "alternative facts" that you speak DaveK.
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COMMITTED UND Recruits
in Men's Hockey
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Still has the champions hallway though, and his commitment post is pinned.