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NCAA rules overhaul alters recruiting picture for college hockey coaches
The NCAA overhauled its rule book for Division I schools in voting Saturday at the NCAA Convention near Dallas, but two approved proposals will stand out to college hockey coaches. The Board of Directors voted to dump its restrictions on ways coaches can communicate with potential players during the recruiting process. It also removed the … Read more
Visors, overtime go under microscope in rules committee meetings
The committee will also consider rules changes stemming from events in the 2012 NCAA men’s tournament. Jim Connelly reports.
NCAA proposes tweak to common opponents criteria for tournament selection
A proposed change to the formula that selects the at-large teams for the NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament could lessen the advantage given for beating common opponents multiple times. The tweak that the Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee is forwarding to the Division I Championships/Sport Management Cabinet involves the calculation of the results … Read more
Committee makes another change to NCAA tournament selection criteria
For the fifth straight season, the NCAA men’s ice hockey committee has altered the selection criteria for the national tournament. This season, the list of teams under consideration — those that are compared against each other to form the basis of the PairWise Rankings — has been expanded to all teams with a Ratings Percentage … Read more
NCAA, Westwood One extend deal to air Frozen Four on radio
The NCAA and Westwood One have announced a multi-year extension to a contract that will keep the men’s Frozen Four on national radio. Details of the agreement were not announced. In addition to the Frozen Four, Westwood One broadcasts the men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball and men’s lacrosse championships.
RIT Heads Atlantic Hockey Coaches Poll
Defending champion and national semifinalist Rochester Institute of Technology has been picked to repeat as champions in the Atlantic Hockey coaches poll, announced Tuesday at the league’s media day, held at Blue Cross Arena, site of the 2011 league championships. Mercyhurst, which finished fourth last season, was picked to finish second and Air Force third. … Read more
Media, Coaches See Yale as Tops in ECAC Hockey
Two-time defending ECAC Hockey champion Yale is the pick of both league coaches and media to finish atop the standings in 2010-11. The Bulldogs got 11 of the 12 first-place votes from coaches and 25 of the 30 votes in the media poll, conducted through the ECAC Hockey Writers and Broadcasters Association. Cornell, Union and … Read more
Mercyhurst the Favorite in 2010-11 CHA Women’s Race
Mercyhurst is the choice of CHA women’s coaches to win the league’s regular-season title in 2010-11. The Lakers, national semifinalists last season, took four of five first-place votes in the balloting. Syracuse got the lone remaining first-place vote to finish second, followed by Niagara, Robert Morris and Wayne State. The full results follow: Team (first-place … Read more
Boston University Women Picked to Repeat in Hockey East
Defending champion Boston University is the favorite for the 2010-11 Hockey East women’s regular-season title, according to league coaches. The Terriers received six of the eight first-place votes in the preseason balloting, with second-place Boston College taking the other two. Providence, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine were picked to finish third through eighth, … Read more
Battista Named to Key Role in Penn State Programs
Penn State is putting many of the key components of its transition to Division I status into the hands of a familiar face around hockey in the area. Joe Battista, the longtime men’s club coach and school employee, will be the associate athletic director for ice arena operations and the director of the Ice Arena … Read more
Wednesday Transplant Scheduled for Yale’s Schwartz
Doctors have set Wednesday as the day for a stem-cell transplant for Yale center Mandi Schwartz. That news came in an update on the Yale page dedicated to Schwartz’s battle with acute myeloid lymphoma. Schwartz had been scheduled for the transplant earlier, but that had to be postponed because she was no longer in remission. … Read more
Penn State Makes it Official: Varsity Programs on the Way
Penn State will start men’s and women’s varsity hockey programs and build an on-campus arena behind what the school’s president called an “unprecedented act of philanthropy.” An $88 million gift from alumnus Terry Pegula and his wife Kim is launching the men’s program and the project to build an arena with a capacity of around … Read more
Coaches Pick Cornell Women to Repeat in ECAC Hockey
Cornell is the heavy favorite to repeat its ECAC Hockey women’s regular-season title from a year ago. The Big Red gained 11 of 12 first-place votes in the league’s preseason coaches poll. Clarkson, which lost an overtime game to Cornell in the ECAC tournament championship game last season, got the one remaining first-place vote and … Read more
Source: Penn State Program Will be Launched Friday With Gift Topping $80 Million
Editor’s note: USCHO national columnist and CBS College Sports Network analyst Dave Starman has been following developments on Penn State’s move to Division I since March. This is the first in a series. Like the song from Disney World says, “When you wish upon a star …” Penn State has been wishing on stars, talismans, … Read more
College Hockey Inc. Plans Summit in Toronto
College Hockey Inc. is dipping its toes into Canadian waters. The informational and marketing arm of college hockey is holding an invitation-only collegiate hockey summit for 1994- and 1995-born players in Toronto on Saturday. Paul Kelly, the executive director of College Hockey Inc., said it’s the first such event the organization has staged in Canada. … Read more
USCHO Roundtable: Talking Penn State, Big Ten
USCHO writers share their thoughts on the anticipated announcement that Penn State will add a Division I men’s program, and its ramifications on the college hockey landscape.
Mercyhurst Women’s Assistant Critically Injured in Crash
Kristen Cameron, an assistant coach at Mercyhurst, was listed in critical condition Monday after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle on Sunday, the Erie Times-News reported. Kristen Cameron was an All-American at Bowdoin. Cameron, 25, is in her second season on the Lakers’ coaching staff. According to the newspaper, citing police, … Read more
Commentary: Which Way Will Dominos Fall After Penn State’s Introduction?
The apparent upcoming addition of Penn State to the Division I men’s picture could be a good thing for college hockey, but that would be if it joins the CCHA, Dave Starman writes.
Looking for No. 1: Watch These 5 Title-Less Teams in 2011 Hunt
Seventeen teams have won a Division I men’s national championship, but there hasn’t been a name added to that list since 1993. The USCHO staff picks five teams that could be newcomers to the champions club in 2010-11.