2025-26 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

[cberkas]

2 hours ago, Level B Fishbowl said:

 

Where did you get that host info from? The NCAA's own website states Union as the host, rather than the conference.

As for the rest, I know there has been a lot of back and forth about regional attendance and I'm certainly not privy to all the arguments, but you'd be hard pressed to get 15,000 at any eastern regional. Many eastern schools don't even have student bodies that touch that number, and that's before you even get to alumni bases and other potential avenues of fan attendance along with on-campus attendance decline trends.

Since Albany was mentioned, let's think about potential attendance there. The biggest pulls would be Cornell (large traveling contingent and heavy alumni base in NYC with good representation throughout upstate NY and New England) and Quinnipiac (proximity and alumni base concentrated in NYC and Connecticut) as far as teams that should be in the tournament. Beyond that, it's a crapshoot given the lack of HEA teams, and all other tournament teams being farther away, so good luck even coming close to that 15,000 number.

 

 

NCAA Tournament Future Sites : College Hockey News

ECAC is the host. ECAC (conference) has hosted 6 regionals with 3 a combined host with RPI. 2006, 2008, and 2010. ECAC hosting 2007, 2016, 2020 (Covid), 2021, and 2026. The CCHA has also hosted as a conference in 2009 and 2001. 2009 was co-hosted with Western Michigan. 

Next year in Bridgeport I expect it to be Sacred Heart and Yale since it has been co-hosted every year, they've hosted there. Even though it says just Sacred Heart

They should be able to get 5,000 per game. College Hockey Inc, NCAA, and the NHL should be advertising the regionals since Christmas. There is no excuse in the East when most of the schools are within 3 to 4 hours max from regionals. 

[cberkas]

Mankato screwing UND yet again  

UND needed Mankato to lose or Air Force to win 

Now #2

[thUNDer]

Schloss mentioned during the intermission interview that Holy Cross is the ECAC host

[cberkas]

7 minutes ago, thUNDer said:

Schloss mentioned during the intermission interview that Holy Cross is the ECAC host

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