{"id":98663,"date":"2016-01-07T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/nchc-blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-01-07T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:00:05","slug":"weekend-picks-jan-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2016\/01\/07\/weekend-picks-jan-8-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend picks: Jan. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew picked a game back up on me last week thanks to correctly picking Western Michigan to beat Bowling Green. I went 6-1-2 (.777) while Matthew went 7-0-2 (.888), both pretty good numbers. On the year, I am 73-31-10 (.684) while Matthew is 69-35-10 (.649).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to this week&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday-Saturday, Jan. 8-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 19 Minnesota-Duluth at Miami<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> One of the harder series to pick. Call it a split, only because Duluth is playing its first road games of the second half. <strong>Miami 3-2, Minnesota-Duluth 4-3<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> Miami seemed to turn the light on late in its series last week against RPI, but I can&#8217;t see Duluth coming away from this series empty-handed. <strong>Miami 3-2, Minnesota-Duluth 4-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colorado College at No. 4 St. Cloud State<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> The Huskies high-flying offense might get shut down some, but not enough. <strong>St. Cloud State 4-1, 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I have a feeling I might be wrong here, but I&#8217;m taking SCSU to sweep. <strong>St. Cloud State 3-1, 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 17 Denver at No. 6 Omaha<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> If this had happened last weekend, I might have called Omaha to sweep. Denver looked good last weekend though. <strong>Omaha 4-2, Denver 2-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> UNO (8-0 at home so far) can&#8217;t win every home game ever at Baxter Arena, can it? <strong>Omaha 3-2, Denver 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Michigan at No. 15 Notre Dame<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> I still have a hard time getting a handle on the Broncos, but there&#8217;s no denying they&#8217;ve been pretty terrible on the road. <strong>Notre Dame 2-1, 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I want to take the league homer pick here, but I don&#8217;t know what the Broncos might come away with. This is a tough one. <strong>Notre Dame 3-2, 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew picked a game back up on me last week thanks to correctly picking Western Michigan to beat Bowling Green. I went 6-1-2 (.777) while Matthew went 7-0-2 (.888), both pretty good numbers. 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