The second-best turnaround in NCAA Division I history was worthy of the award as best coach of the year. Massachusetts-Lowell first-year coach Norm Bazin has been selected USCHO’s coach of the year for the 2011-12 season after leading a 19-game improvement over last season. The River Hawks won just five games last season before Bazin … Read more
The weekend was a roller coaster of sorts for the River Hawks. Sean Caruthers reports from the East Regional.
Three of the four coaches in the East Regional in Bridgeport, Conn., are in their first season at their school. Here’s previews of Union, Miami, Massachusetts-Lowell and Michigan State.
The first-round matchups for the 2012 NCAA Division I men’s tournament include one that features one of the most notorious NCAA tournament games of all time. Todd D. Milewski reports.
Northern Michigan is out of the CCHA playoffs, but it’s not too far out of the running for an NCAA tournament spot. What do you do if you’re the Wildcats? Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski have this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Picked for ninth in the CCHA by the coaches entering the season, the Bulldogs are the new No. 1 team in the country. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk about that, the Beanpot and more in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Who’s No. 1? It’s Boston University in the poll, but a number of teams have legitimate claims. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski have this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Even in the WCHA, where Minnesota has a five-point lead on Minnesota-Duluth, the race for league titles is tightening up. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski have this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Dave Starman returns with quick thoughts on topics around college hockey.
Miami is on a roll; Western Michigan, Union and Northeastern have slipped; and ECAC Hockey might have an NCAA tournament shortfall. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski have Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
This week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback also looks at Boston University, a team that has overcome losing two big players over winter break. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski chime in.
A quick look at the holiday-season tournaments for the 2011-12 season.
Six games against college teams are on the schedule for the Russian Red Stars. Dave Saunders reports.
Massachusetts-Lowell defenseman Rob Badger and forward Joe Caveney have both left the team, according to a report on the Sun Blog website. Both have also been removed from UML’s roster on the school website. Caveney, a junior, was hampered by injuries his first two seasons and had played only four games this season. Badger played … Read more
It looks like Alabama-Huntsville will be around next season, after all, but what will be the lasting effects of the turmoil? Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk about that, a first half of mediocrity, which teams are breaking out of that and the week ahead in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski run down the hot topics this week in Division I men’s hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Those topics and more in this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback with Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski.
Norm Bazin knows what it is like to face challenges. As a player at Massachusetts-Lowell in the mid-1990s, he transformed from a role player to one of the leading scorers on one of Lowell’s best teams ever. As an assistant at Colorado College, Bazin successfully recruited some of the game’s top players — including Hobey … Read more
Former Niagara and Massachusetts-Lowell head coach Blaise MacDonald has been named an assistant coach for Massachusetts. MacDonald replaces Red Gendron, who was named the associate head coach at Yale. “Blaise was unquestionably the best candidate for the position and for our needs,” said UMass head coach Don “Toot” Cahoon in a press release. “He comes … Read more
Jason Lammers and Cam Ellsworth have been named assistant coaches at Massachusetts-Lowell. Lammers brings over a decade of coaching experience to Lowell, most recently spending the last two seasons with Colorado College. In addition, he has coached at Ohio State, SUNY-Geneseo, Princeton, Alaska-Fairbanks, Clarkson and Hobart College. Ellsworth joins the River Hawks after three seasons … Read more