NCAA seeding

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

37 minutes ago, .357 said:

Which scenario is David Carle advocating for?

 

Assumedly the 3 week version since atmosphere is his argument.

[brianvf]

6 minutes ago, 108498 said:

Who should we cheer for out of the Loveland Regional? Its hard seeing anyone upsetting Denver.

I’m rooting for MSUM out of that region. Doubt it will happen but I sure don’t want DU or WMU potentially playing for another title. DU for obvious reasons. WMU…a large % of their fan base acts like they have won a ton of titles after their one win last year. So it wouldn’t upset me if they bowed out as well. 

[TwamleyShuffle]

9 minutes ago, 108498 said:

Who should we cheer for out of the Loveland Regional? Its hard seeing anyone upsetting Denver.

Mankato. I have them defeating WMU. Your a correct to say that DU is a wagon rn and having home ice and the advantage of being used to the elevation makes them big favorites to win their regional. But yet again, they’d have to beat the Albany winner to potentially face us in title game if we get that far. So even if a team in Loveland doesn’t beat them, they aren’t the last “boss they’d have to beat to get to us

[cberkas]

I have Michigan State getting upset by UConn and Duluth getting out of Albany 

[tnt]

18 minutes ago, 108498 said:

Who should we cheer for out of the Loveland Regional? Its hard seeing anyone upsetting Denver.

Cornell and Denver have had low scoring games in the NCAA tournament about 3 & 4 years ago.  Big teams like Cornell are tough to play against during tourney time, and if they can stay out of the box, they will probably be in another low scoring game with them, where the bounces could make the difference.  Cornell will have to keep it low scoring to have a chance as I don’t see Hicks giving up a lot.

[.357]

1 hour ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

You can't have a 4 team situation at home sites for the NCAA tournament for the same reason you can't for conference tournaments. Anytime the host gets beat in the first round the attendance is dismal for the second round. Going to home sites means three consecutive weeks of the tournament.

The alternative is to go back to allowing bidding with campus arenas and keep the 4 regionals. But then it's #1 seed eastern school coming to the Ralph to play #3 seed UND, which is what they are really against but won't admit.

Even in the second scenario with campuses bidding, attendance will still be an issue if the campus team gets beat in the first round; provided they even make the tournament. (similar attendance problem to the other scenario where the host school gets eliminated in the first round).

But both of these scenarios would be an improvement attendance-wise compared to neutral sites. Instead of having an arena mostly empty for both days at a neutral site like it is now, at least one of those days would see good attendance. 

[cberkas]

NCHC, CCHA, and B1G (Penn State will be the dumb one) ADs/coaches just need to take my advice.