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2024 D-III Tournament Pick'em: NCAA Semifinals - Thursday @ 3:00

Fishman'81 said:
Any of the four teams could beat any other of the other three teams this weekend. Clearly. No possible result of them all could really be considered an upset. This field is just about as perfect as it could be.

Still, if I had to bet my life on it, I'd go with Hobart and Adrian advancing, and Hobart winning the title game in OT.
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Last year was an awesome tournament. The Adrian v.UNE was a classic high scoring game, 8-7, and the final OT win by Hobart over Adrian was incredibly intense. I'm expecting the same action this year. I'm thinking a Hobart / Adrian rematch as well, but anything is possible as the puck has a mind of its own. Good luck to all.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
You should know that 2017 was Utica, and the host team did not make it. In fact, you talked about how the local Utica fan wouldn't pay the money they were asking for without Utica in it.

The only other time I can think of where the home team made it when they already were the predetermined site was 2006 in Elmira. And that was the downtown arena, not the Domes where the school plays.

(The first predetermined site was in 1994 at Maplewood, MN, a Twin Cities suburb. River Falls, which is just across the border, was in it. They packed that place for the final, which also happened to be against Stevens Point, who certainly traveled well.)
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Utica being there would have guaranteed a sellout, but I also said that if an Oswego, a Platty, a Hobart, a Genny, etc. had been there, that attendance would have been much better. Nobody near here had a dog in the hunt.

( And I think that the semi's were $20 a pop and that he final was $40, further discouraging casually interested locals.)
 
Fishman'81 said:
Utica being there would have guaranteed a sellout, but I also said that if an Oswego, a Platty, a Hobart, a Genny, etc. had been there, that attendance would have been much better. Nobody near here had a dog in the hunt.

( And I think that the semi's were $20 a pop and that he final was $40, further discouraging casually interested locals.)
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I totally agree on your attendance assessment. There was nobody close by. And even though Norwich travels well, they don't travel that well that far.

Your prices are completely off base. The $40 (or whatever the higher amount was, but that sounds close enough) would have been for the entire tournament. $20 would have been per day.
 
WCHornet said:
That screen is so annoying ! Like watching a game through a chain link fence.
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It's ridiculous. Last week I was watching some of the D1 women playoff games from Ohio State. That was even worse. You were either looking through a very thick net or a very dirty glass. Or both. Absurd.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
I totally agree on your attendance assessment. There was nobody close by. And even though Norwich travels well, they don't travel that well that far.

Your prices are completely off base. The $40 (or whatever the higher amount was, but that sounds close enough) would have been for the entire tournament. $20 would have been per day.
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Not so sure, but I admit that I don't remember exactly what the prices were, but I DO remember that it likely priced-out the Utican on the street who might have shown up simply for something to do.

This year, it'll set you back $45 to see all three games. It was probably something like that in Utica, too.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
You should know that 2017 was Utica, and the host team did not make it. In fact, you talked about how the local Utica fan wouldn't pay the money they were asking for without Utica in it.

The only other time I can think of where the home team made it when they already were the predetermined site was 2006 in Elmira. And that was the downtown arena, not the Domes where the school plays.

(The first predetermined site was in 1994 at Maplewood, MN, a Twin Cities suburb. River Falls, which is just across the border, was in it. They packed that place for the final, which also happened to be against Stevens Point, who certainly traveled well.)
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Back when we were all Division 2, the 1980 Frozen Four was predetermined to be at the Domes in Elmira, and Elmira was in it, much to the chagrin of Oswego, who had won the ECAC-West that year.
 
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