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The WCHA placed three teams in the final eight, both teams in the national championship game, and yet earned only three of 12 All-Americans. Is this “Eastern bias” in the voting? I would say there is bias only insofar as the system tends towards proportional representation. One simple reason for this is that if each … Read more
First-Team All-Americans G Kim Martin, So., UMD D Tessa Bonhomme, Sr., OSU D Caitlin Cahow, Sr., Harvard F Meghan Agosta, So., Mercyhurst F Melissa Boal, Jr., WSU F Sarah Vaillancourt, Jr., Harvard Second-Team All-Americans G Christina Kessler, So., Harvard D Martine Garland, Sr., UNH D Annie Guay, Sr., St. Lawrence F Gigi Marvin, Jr., Minnesota … Read more
The NCAA has to be happy with the four teams that made it to Lake Placid – the hottest team in Division III and three squads within a reasonable driving distance. They’ll be no miracle this year – all four teams can with the title. No Cinderellas allowed. St. Norbert – Is this finally the … Read more
UMD coach Shannon Miller said at Thursday’s pre-game press conference that No. 2 scorer Saara Tuominen was 50-50 for Thursday night’s game. She suffered a sprained MCL in the quarterfinal win against Mercyhurst.
In any NCAA championship event, handling the pressure of the big stage is a major factor in determining the outcome. So it comes as no surprise that experience was a common topic of conversation in Wednesday’s pre-game press conferences at the Women’s Frozen Four in Duluth. Harvard vs. Wisconsin In some sense, the first semifinal … Read more
It’ll be Wisconsin vs. Harvard and UNH vs. UMD in Duluth on Thursday. Harvard will play at 5 p.m. CT followed by UMD at 8 p.m. It was a familiar result for the Badgers, who won in overtime in the quarterfinals en route to each of their NCAA titles in the last two years. The … Read more
UMD advances to the Frozen Four with a 5-4 win over Mercyhurst. More heartbreak for the Lakers, who led 3-2 early in the third. Mercyhurst had lost its previous three NCAA quarterfinals in triple, double, and single overtime. It was another tough ending for the six Mercyhurst seniors. UMD extends its homestand which also included … Read more
No big surprises in No. 1 Harvard’s 5-1 NCAA women’s quarterfinal win over Dartmouth. Harvard proves once again why it was the best in the ECAC this season. The attendance of 1497 was solid, but I was hoping for a little better. It was up from Harvard’s 2005 NCAA quarterfinal, the triple overtime win over … Read more
Congrats to New Hampshire, the first team into the Women’s Frozen Four with a 3-2 overtime win over St. Lawrence. One story line of this game that stands out is the play of seniors Sabrina Harbec for SLU and Sadie Wright-Ward for UNH. Both were conference players of the year as sophomores, but never quite … Read more
Some people get jazzed up for the holidays. Others its about the start of a season like spring or summer. For me, there’s only one season that counts: college hockey’s playoff season. Things got underway this past weekend in formal (CCHA, ECAC, AHA) and informal (WCHA title, Hockey East’s home ice battle) ways. And coming … Read more
OK. The bids have gone out. Initial reactions: 1. Stout is a good choice. The Blue Devils got hosed last year, but this is more than a make-up call. 2. I hope the MCHA gets an auto-bid next year, so Adrian will have a real shot. Their strength of schedule killed them, and it won’t … Read more
The National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey committee made two controversial decisions on Sunday. One involved selecting Dartmouth over Clarkson as the last team in the tournament. The other was to abandon the practice of avoiding intraconference play in the NCAA quarterfinal round in order to save money on travel costs. I will discuss each below. … Read more
As we all wait for the results of the NCAA selection committee conference call…here’s what I think. In: East: 1. Plattsburgh 2. Norwich 3. Elmira 4. Manhattanville 5. Hobart 6. Trinity 7. Mass-Dartmouth West: 1. St. Norbert 2. St. Thomas And then you have five teams left for one spot: Oswego, Middlebury, UW-Stout, UW-River Falls … Read more
The NCAA tournament pairings are in, and it’s a surprise. Dartmouth at No. 1 Harvard Wisconsin at No. 4 Minnesota St. Lawrence at No. 3 New Hampshire Mercyhurst at No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth All games will be Saturday. This is a departure from past precedent, as the committee had previously showed a preference in avoiding intraconference … Read more
This post begins USCHO’s blogging for the women’s National Collegiate Tournament. Be sure also to check the women’s page for recaps of both the ECAC and WCHA tournament tonight. In the coming weeks, USCHO will also have coverage from at least two of the NCAA quarterfinal sites and the NCAA Women’s Frozen Four in Duluth. … Read more
Wayne State won’t be playing hockey next season but that doesn’t mean that the program is dead and buried forever. In an article in Friday’s Detroit Free Press, George Sipple writes that the school is in talks with the Detroit Red Wings to build a facility on the Wayne State campus in downtown Detroit that … Read more
First, if you haven’t done so already, read Matt Webb and Josh Carey’s excellent analysis of the West’s NCAA predicament. It points out the problems and highlights some solutions for the West getting three teams in the tournament in the event St. Norbert beats UW-Stout. I’ll cover the high points here, in an updated version … Read more
For about six hours today, this exact blog space was occupied by a story reacting to what we thought was new legislation instituted by the NCAA men’s ice hockey committee that would require at-large teams in this year’s NCAA tournament to posses a record at or above .500. Well, according to an email that USCHO.com … Read more
We’ve reached the first full week of March with only one regular season league championship still up for grabs. The WCHA will come down to the final weekend of play, with North Dakota sitting just two points behind league-leader Colorado College. The Tigers may have the tougher opponent this weekend then they’ll face in-state rival … Read more
I’m a fan of The Daily Show. During the writer’s strike, when Jon Stewart went back on the air with essentially no material except his own, he refused to call his program “The Daily Show”. Instead, he changed the name to “A Daily Show”. That’s how I feel trying to do the D-III Bracketology this … Read more