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Frozen Four Oddities.

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The grand-daddy of oddities:

Site of FF? MN
First letters of the names by which the participants are familiarly known? M (Mich./Minn-Duluth) and N (NoDak/Notre Dame).
My reputation on the board after this post? M(ostly) N(egative).

A Frozen Four First? Heck, I don't know. Too damn lazy to look it up.
 
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Bronzebacks said:
If the Mississippi River is the divider, Bemidji's Hockey Arena is both East and West of the river. Campus itself is West.
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You're kind of correct. Take a look at a map of Bemidji:

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You can see the Mississippi entering Lake Bemidji via Lake Irvine at the SW corner of the lake. It exits the eastern side. So:

Campus is just south of that southern point (Diamond Point) on the east side of the lake, making campus both north and west of the Mississippi.

The Sanford Center, BSU's new rink, is on the south shore of Lake Bemidji (near the "1" in 1st St. E), making their rink south, east AND west of the Mississippi (since the river turns south towards the Twin Cities over around Grand Rapids, MN).
 
Re: Frozen Four Oddities.

Bronzebacks said:
If the Mississippi River is the divider, Bemidji's Hockey Arena is both East and West of the river. Campus itself is West.
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HumRsky said:
Huh, never thought about it, but you're right. so...39-22 :p

Also, if the Mississippi River is the divider there are only 9 Western D1 hockey schools: the Colorado schools, the Alaska schools, North Dakota, Bemidji, Mankato, and St. Cloud (the Concrete Center is on the West bank of the river. Mariucci is on the East bank campus of Minnesota.)
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Ack...... I needed to think through my count of 12 better. Depending on how Bemidji counts, it's either 9 or 10 "Western" schools if we use the Mississippi as the dividing line. I know I counted Bemidji, MN and Duluth. There are at least arguments to keep Bemidji and MN as being West of the river, but how I included UMD.... well.... .just not paying attention.
 
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I wonder if this is the first time a Division I school has made both the Frozen Four and the NCAA basketball Final Four in the same season....

Notre Dame men's ice hockey and Notre Dame women's basketball.

There have been nine times in which the men's and women's division I basketball team from the same school made the Final Four in the same season.....
 
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FreshFish said:
I wonder if this is the first time a Division I school has made both the Frozen Four and the NCAA basketball Final Four in the same season....

Notre Dame men's ice hockey and Notre Dame women's basketball.

There have been nine times in which the men's and women's division I basketball team from the same school made the Final Four in the same season.....
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I wonder if there is a book published on this subject.
 
FreshFish said:
I wonder if this is the first time a Division I school has made both the Frozen Four and the NCAA basketball Final Four in the same season.
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I did very minimal research and found that Michigan made the Frozen Four and the Men's Final Four in 1964, 1992, and 1993. Michigan State did the same in 1999 and 2001. There may very well be others.
 
Re: Frozen Four Oddities.

HumRsky said:
I did very minimal research and found that Michigan made the Frozen Four and the Men's Final Four in 1964, 1992, and 1993. Michigan State did the same in 1999 and 2001. There may very well be others.
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For making the Men's Frozen Four/Men's Final Four those are the only ones.

For making the Men's Frozen Four/Women's Final Four, 2011 Notre Dame is the only occurrance.

For making the Men's Frozen Four/Football Champions, 1948 Michigan, 1964 Michigan, 1966 Michigan State, and 1997 Michigan.
 
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Someone with more free time *cough* FS 23 *cough* should look at how many National Champions never lost back to back games.
 
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Champions by color:

Red (32):
Denver, 7
Wisconsin, 6
Minnesota, 5
Boston U, 5
Boston College, 4
Cornell, 2
RPI, 2
Harvard, 1

Blue (14):
Michigan, 9
Lake Superior, 3
Maine, 2

Green (11):
North Dakota, 7
Michigan State, 3
Northern Michigan, 1

Black (5):
Michigan Tech, 3
Colorado College, 2

Orange (1):
Bowling Green, 1
 
Re: Frozen Four Oddities.

Biddco said:
Someone with more free time *cough* FS 23 *cough* should look at how many National Champions never lost back to back games.
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The Gophers in '03 were the last team to do it. They did it in '02 as well. They went from March of '01 through October of '04 without losing back to back games. Boston College in '01 did it as well. There are going to be a ton of teams that did it overall, but only those three in the past 10 years.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
The Gophers in '03 were the last team to do it. They did it in '02 as well. They went from March of '01 through October of '04 without losing back to back games. Boston College in '01 did it as well. There are going to be a ton of teams that did it overall, but only those three in the past 10 years.
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Thanks. I ask selfishly because that is the case with UMD this year. So this makes me feel good, and worried (hasn't happened in almost ten years).
 
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