When the NCAA announced sites for tournaments in the next four seasons last December, it left open the 2017 and 2018 regionals to avoid being locked into a neutral-site regional format that may have run its course.
North Dakota is into the Frozen Four for the first time since 2011 after a double-overtime goal by a player who represents the team’s unheralded nature.
Here are photos from Saturday’s Midwest Regional final in Cincinnati, where North Dakota beat Ferris State 2-1 in double overtime.
Brendan O’Donnell’s point shot ricocheted off Mark MacMillan in front of the net for the go-ahead goal in North Dakota’s regional win over the Badgers.
Here are photos from Friday’s Midwest Regional semifinals in Cincinnati, where Ferris State beat Colgate 1-0 and North Dakota beat Wisconsin 5-2.
After the first day of the 2014 NCAA tournament, 93 percent of the brackets entered in College Hockey Pickem 2014 are out of the running for the coveted perfect bracket.
In nearly 11,000 valid brackets entered for College Hockey Pickem 2014, two schools combined to get more than half of the predictions to win the NCAA tournament.
He allowed seven goals in two games at the WCHA Final Five but stopped all 35 shots he faced against the Raiders in the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals.
USCHO’s conference writers analyze the games in which the teams they cover are involved.
Ferris State plays Colgate and Wisconsin plays North Dakota in the first round Friday at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati.
Here are some of the interesting facts and figures about the tournament and the teams involved.
Wisconsin and North Dakota will meet for the 164th time when they play in the first round of the 2014 NCAA tournament. Here are the all-time histories between the first-round opponents.
Playing in its own back yard, Quinnipiac draws Providence The Bobcats will play the Friars for the second time this year, the teams tying 3-3 in Hamden in late November. After so much time, there will be little to glean from that result – it was the weekend after Thanksgiving, after all – but some … Read more
North Dakota fans were cheering hard for the Badgers during the Big Ten tournament championship game on Saturday night. Oh, how different things will be this Friday. Wisconsin will be the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional in Cincinnati and will face fourth-seeded North Dakota. Puck drop is set for 8 p.m. EDT and … Read more
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The field of 16 teams for the 2014 NCAA tournament was announced Sunday and with Yale not making the tournament, there will be a new national champion crowned on April 12 in Philadelphia. Three teams from the 2013 Frozen Four — Quinnipiac, St. Cloud State and Massachusetts-Lowell — are back in the tournament this year. … Read more
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Ferris State and Colgate began their 2013-14 seasons against each other back on the first Saturday in October. Now on the final Friday of March, one of them will close its season against the other. The Bulldogs are back in the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years and … Read more
John Buccigross will return as ESPN’s lead play-by-play announcer for the 2014 NCAA tournament.