2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

[mnpokecheck]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Not sure the best place to post this, but since both Brad and Mark are up for Coach of the Year, I will post it here. http://www.ahcahockey.com/news/1314/0318w1cy.php

All NCAA Semi-finalists are automatically up for the award.

[OldDave]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

All NCAA Semi-finalists are automatically up for the award.

Yup. Says that right on the page.

[5mn_Major]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

A Maryland-NC LAX game will draw more watchers than any men's hockey game they show, except maybe the national title game.

Ah no.

The TV audience for the lacrosse championship game was 496,000 U.S. households this May, up 27 percent from last year, according to the network.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...ance-skid.html

TV audiences for the Frozen Four championship game average about 500k to 700k households.

http://www.bcinterruption.com/2012/3...is-state-union

ESPN broadcast 35 regular-season lacrosse games this past season, averaging 51,000 viewers per telecast across three ESPN channels.

Now I'm not sure if they're apples to apples, but a college hockey game last fall pulled in 183,000 viewers...which is surprising in that nobody watches NBCSN. And with television contracts across the board...college hockey is on the climb whereas lacrosse is not.

This nonsense about lacrosse needs to stop. And ESPN will continue to pay for its refusal to do so.

[FireKnight]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Basically, Badgers/Gophers fans take for granted how many people show up for women's hockey, forgetting that "women's college hockey" raises approximately zero eyebrows across the country.

Bingo! We've been begging for people to pay attention to our women's team for the last few years. Our regular fans (i.e. those who post on our fan website) have given the team some attention but we literally have a single thread for the women's season while the men get a new thread every game. I'm sure Wisconsin, NoDak, and the Minnesota schools get a lot of people to show but it just doesn't happen in the east…anywhere.

[WiscDC]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Now I'm not sure if they're apples to apples, but a college hockey game last fall pulled in 183,000 viewers...which is surprising in that nobody watches NBCSN. And with television contracts across the board...college hockey is on the climb whereas lacrosse is not.

The assertion that college lacrosse pulls in more viewers than men's hockey is false, but the sport of lacrosse has been experiencing significant growth.

[brookyone]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

http://www.wcha.com/women/pres1314/201403/mar18wcw.php

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Wisconsin is good at a whole lot of stuff besides football and basketball, and hockey.

Men's cross country has a ridiculous streak of Big Ten championships - prior to getting beat this year, 14 straight championships and now 31 of the last 37, along with four (?) national championships with a bunch of other 'podium' finishes. Men's track just won the Big Ten Indoor championship second year in a row. In 2007, they became the first Big Ten school to win an NCAA track championship in something like 50 years. Women's volleyball made it to the national championship game this year. Softball won the Big Ten tournament in 2013 and went a few rounds into the NCAA tournament

I was responding to fireKnight's sentence "Minnesota, in particular, is seen as an also-ran in the Big Ten in any other sport besides hockey." which is factually incorrect unless you are looking at football and men's basketball. Then fireKnight adds that "Wisconsin has a much better athletic program" which again is factually incorrect based on the 2012-2013 director cup standings (2013-2014 results are not yet complete). It really has nothing to do with Wisconsin only being good at football and basketball other than this posters perception of such compared to "also-ran" Minnesota. FireKnight also stated that college lacrosse pulls in more viewers than MENS college hockey which was pointed out by 5mn_Major to be factually incorrect as well. FireKnight's relationship with facts is going through a bit of a rough patch right now.

[pokechecker]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

somebody let me know when you are done talking about Glee Club

[mnpokecheck]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

From Wisconsin Women's Hockey Page

Key notes to consider
• Wisconsin will make its seventh Frozen Four appearance, reaching the round of four in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

• The Badgers have advanced to the national title game in each of their previous six Frozen Four appearances.

• The Cardinal and White sport a 17-3 record in NCAA tournament games, the best record in NCAA history.

• Despite trailing the series against Minnesota, the Badgers hold a 2-1 advantage against the Gophers in NCAA postseason games. Wisconsin defeated Minnesota in the 2006 NCAA title game and in the quarterfinals in 2008, while UW fell to Minnesota in the 2012 NCAA title contest.

• The Badgers are a perfect 4-0 in games played in the state of Connecticut, sweeping UConn in 2002 in Storrs, Conn., and sweeping Quinnipiac in 2005.

• The Badgers sport one of the nation’s best special teams unit, as their power play ranks fourth with a 23.4 conversion rate, while the penalty kill has a conversion rate of 92.5, the third-best mark nationally.

• Alex Rigsby ranks third in the nation in goals against average (1.17) and is second in save percentage (.950).

• Junior Blayre Turnbull is tied for the nation’s lead in shorthanded goals with five, which is the most in school history. Turnbull’s seven career short-handed goals rank third on the school’s all-time list.

Against Minnesota
• The Badgers trail the series against Minnesota 26-39-8.

• The Gophers have won the past 10 meetings between the schools, and the last UW win occurred on Oct. 14, 2011.

• The Cardinal and White does hold a 8-5 record against UM in postseason play, and a 2-1 ledger in NCAA tournament games.

About Minnesota
• The Golden Gophers enter the weekend with 37-1-1 record.

• Minnesota is making its third-straight and 10th overall Frozen Four appearance. The Gophers enter the 2014 Frozen Four as back-to-back national champions and are on a 25-game unbeaten streak (24-0-1).

• The Gophers lead the nation in scoring offense, averaging 4.77 goals per contest, while holding its opponents to 1.05 goals per game, the best mark in the NCAA.
Minnesota also sports the nation’s best power-play unit, converting 32.5 percent of its chances with a man advantage.

• Three Gophers have reached the 50-point mark this season in national points leader Hannah Brandt (22 goals-41 assists), Rachael Bona (21g-37a) and Kelly Terry (21g-29a). Sarah Davis (19g-28a) and Rachel Ramsey (12g-31a) have surpassed the 40-point mark for the first time in their careers as well.

• Fourteen Gophers are in double-digits for scoring, including nine players with at least 30 points.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-ho...-W-Hockey.html

[brookyone]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-w...o-have-history

[Timothy A]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

From Wisconsin Women's Hockey Page

The historical points are totally irrelevant. It does not matter that UW is undefeated in Conn, it doesn't matter what UW's record is in the ncaa's overall and against the rodents in the ncaa's. This kind of jibberish just irritates me.

[pokechecker]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

The historical points are totally irrelevant. It does not matter that UW is undefeated in Conn, it doesn't matter what UW's record is in the ncaa's overall and against the rodents in the ncaa's. This kind of jibberish just irritates me.

at least it is discussion about hockey

they could go back to arguing over which school has won more badminton titles

[Blackbeard]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Can't decide if I'd rather see one of these two teams break their deadlock with each other at 4 Frozen Four Championships each and win the next two games thereby entering into a deadlock with UMD at 5 each or have one of the other two teams take it all thereby breaking the 13 year stranglehold that UMD, UW and UM have had on the annual title. Pros and cons to each I suppose.

[brookyone]

Re: 2014 NCAA Frozen Four: Minnesota vs. Wisconsin in Border Battle Semifinal

Ski-U-Mah!

[mnturkey]

Ski-U-Mah!

Agree
Go Gophers, I am disappointed the game is not on TV but I will go watch it at Joe Sensers in about a hour and 45 minutes.
Looking forward to MN beating WI twice this weekend.