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2024 NCAA Tournament
- Thread starter Hockeybuckeye
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thirdtime's . . .
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I knew all season long that Harvard would figure prominently in the tournament discussion.
Ha!
If any Buckeye Players are reading this thread: Ignore robertearle's comment. He is NOT your friend!!
Stay motivated -- crazy motivated -- throughout the entire tournament. Most certainly including Saturday's game.
Of course if any Badger Players are reading this thread, the advice is different: Cancel all practices. Eat prodigious amounts of unhealthy food.
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robertearle
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I'm not talking about the players. They understand, it's a tournament; you're playing a pretty good team that just got done beating a pretty good team. You gotta show up and play.
I'm talking about you guys and your incessant whining about having to play Duluth again. If you're "bored" with playing them, that's your problem. They are seeded where the rules and procedures say they should be seeded. Deal with it.
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
You are correct on both games. The game in Columbus on BTN+ will be free to view. Sorry our feed sucks so bad.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Yep.
So how do we feel about the UMD goal not being over-turned? I'd love to see the overhead on that one. It certainly looks debatable. I was rooting for UCONN. They "scored" I went right to the PSU St. L tilt, then saw on twitter it was still going on lol.
robertearle
Well-known member
I looked at replays of both reviews on BTN-Plus when I got home from the St Lawrence - Penn State game. They both looked pretty clearly correct to me.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
Last night, it was better than I remember. You even had a professional play-by-play announcer, although he kept wanting to tie things back to the NHL ("She's from <city>, which is also the home of former NHL great <random player>"), which I found annoying. The one camera issue was that they kept wanting to show a shot of the goaltender who was at the opposite end of the ice from the impending faceoff, rather than a shot of the teams lining up. Meanwhile, UW had a student announcer who put the emphasis on line, as in "blue LINE". Not to be confused with blue PAINT, I guess.
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
It seemed pretty clear to me the player was pushed into the crease/goalie, so no goaltender interference. Good goal.
It's probably the only time Harvard will be mentioned on a National Tournament thread for the next several years. Or longer.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
I really don't understand the rationale for all these games going on practically at the same time. Wouldn't you want to spread them out and have a whole day of exciting action? The 4 5 could have happened yesterday. Then you could have had games today at noon 3:00 and 6:00.. That would have been a bowl of fun.
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Yea I have hockey at 3:30 so will miss literally everything. Oops. I guess I’ll find streams. Maybe there will be some evolution over time. I’m pretty blown away by the strides that have been Made for women’s sports the past few years.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Yes but this is a step backwards. Wouldn't the NCAA want maximum exposure?
this is status quo I think. The games have been on top of each other for years as far as I remember. Hopefully they spread it out as you and others suggested.
some progress is expanding the tournament, getting rid of the travel limitation, applesauce on snack carts apparently, the quality of streams, hype videos from schools, a uscho podcast, the jocks in Jill’s podcast, the athletic including Patty Kaz info in their pw articles, another D1 team coming in 2025, the resurrection of RMU and their application for a grant re a new rink, college hockey Inc hiring a women’s director with a grant from the nhl. Also a PW that keeps adding sponsors, but def needs the fans to keep showing up and supporting.
I was watching Clarkson Hurst several years back, 2018, and there was either no time clock or no penalty clock. Had no idea on timing, it was like watching soccer. Thumbs down.
In 2006 I tried to watch Hurst online, it just crashed and didn’t work, so I relied on radio for a few years. It will never be enough, there will always be a ways to go and good to call for better. March is is such a kickass month though in our sport. I’m hyped.
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
It was at the far end from where I was sitting so I couldn't see it clearly and as mentioned before no video board in our barn to see replays. But it was at the end of the ice where all the UConn fans were so you can imagine their reaction.
robertearle
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The games were streamed free on BTN-Plus. I assume the replays would also be free. You can look at the goal reviews there. The refs got both correct, IMO.
I agree that the video stream looked better than I recall it bring in the past. The panning and zooming was much improved so I suspect they used an actual professional instead of a student worker this time. I recall a game I went to there a few years ago where the student operator spent more time checking his phone than running the camera. Now if they could just take care of that ever-present, atrocious netting. I used to think they intentionally kept it in place to help in the push for a new facility, but I’m not so sure anymore. Don’t the people in Ohio know that there are better options available? As I think I’ve mentioned before, the St. Thomas arena also has netting all along the spectator side of the rink but nobody talks about it. That’s because they use clear monofilament netting with no thick reinforcement strip at the bottom that results in only a minimal distraction from the viewing experience. For probably only a few thousand dollars, Ohio State could replace the center section of their netting down to about the top of the faceoff circles and greatly improve the view.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
Historically, nothing drives starting times in sports more than TV. What will happen first -- women's hockey interest expands to the point that NCAA Tournament games are televised, or streaming of major sporting events replaces network coverage? Didn't a person need to sign up for Paramount+ or some such nonsense in order to watch KC's first NFL playoff game this year? The problem that women's hockey has is that this key weekend overlaps with a lot of BB and men's hockey league tourneys, so there isn't a demand for more college sports to televise. Our FF weekend is typically up against some portion of March Madness, and there isn't a way to shift our tournament to escape it. Volleyball occurs at a time when college FB is in a lull before the holiday bowl games, so it makes sense that there would be an expansion to all-day coverage of the quarterfinals. Hockey also shares a problem with volleyball in that the line is narrow between deciding a contest in three periods/sets and needing to go five. Suddenly shifting the outcome out of the neat two-hour blocks that network TV would prefer.
Maybe the PWHL will grow and change the conversation, creating a demand for televising women's NCAA hockey. I confess that while I'm enough of a fan to watch SLU vs PSU and UMD vs UConn live, I don't have the level of interest needed to watch five periods of an archived stream to see one goal scored.
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
Buckeyes score 12 seconds in!