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Midwest Regional: Minnesota State, Nebraska-Omaha, Harvard, RIT

Re: Midwest Regional: Minnesota State, Nebraska-Omaha, Harvard, RIT

Red Cows said:
With it being "Maverick Weekend" in South Bend, there are going to be a ton of cowbells on Saturday for both games (hopefully, on Sunday, too). Mankato is is probably going to have the added benefit of UNO fans cheering for them, too, of the ones that straggle in, early.
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Are they going to allow bells into the venue? lol I know RIT is planning on bringing their band, so noise will be good.
 
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My hope is that the winner of whole tourny is a team from this regional (preferrably MSUM obviously), or Mich Tech. It would do well for college hockey. With Union and Yale winning these past few years it has shown that its anyones game. Plus with only 16 teams in, #1 losing to #16 is completely plausible almost every year. I fully believe MSUM is as good as advertised, losing to RIT wont change that. RIT has a solid team. This isnt Kentucky vs Hampton. Holy Cross defeat of the Gophers few years ago proved that. (which still is one of the best moments in college hockey for me as I was in a bar in the twin cities watching with Gopher fans. I hate the UofM and it was so utterly sweet to see the smug smiled wiped off their face.)
 
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Red Cows said:
UNO's allotment of tickets is in sections 2, 3, 101, 102, & 103 in one corner of Compton. This is the end the home team shoots at twice...



...Question, who are the home teams? The upper seeds? Coin flip? What? This seems like something I should know, but, I don't. Perhaps because we only seem to make the tourney every 5 years or so.
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Higher seeds are home teams and will occupy the "Notre Dame" bench at the Compton Family Ice Arena. This means UNO will shoot at the net UNO fans are near for the 1st and 3rd periods. Teams would be reseeded after the games, so if RIT pulls off the upset either UNO or Harvard would be the home team Sunday night. For the UNO fans, your seats are located in the closest corner to the entrance to the CFIA.

The bench on the home team side is significantly higher than the road side, and since Notre Dame built the rink with team benches on both sides, the "home" team has a pretty nice advantage by way of where they sit. Less fatiguing for line changes, as well as the penalty bench is 10 feet from your bench instead of 90 feet across the ice.

The views from most seats at the CFIA are pretty good. The arena has good sight lines and the lighting is focused very well. The view from the upper deck is fabulous, with the caveat that behind the goals you look through the protective netting and unless you are used to that it takes a while to get used to focusing beyond it. The UNO allotment is in the student sections, which means bleachers instead of individual chairback seats. But the legroom is great and the seats aren't cramped at all. Contrast this with the seats along the north end of the building (behind the ND bench and along that side of the rink), which are kind of cramped. Some sections on the opposite end have wider seats. One of my original section mates even moved over to that side after the first season of the CFIA to get access to a better fit.
 
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I'm just happy our players names will be on the jerseys this time.
 
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Im excited for the UNO Harvard game. Seen UNO play and they can bring it. They struggled a bit late but I really think people are making more of that then they should. Blais is a great coach and he will have them ready to go on all cylinders come Saturday.
 
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MavsFan19 said:
Im excited for the UNO Harvard game. Seen UNO play and they can bring it. They struggled a bit late but I really think people are making more of that then they should. Blais is a great coach and he will have them ready to go on all cylinders come Saturday.
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If this is a tie game in the 3rd, if I were Harvard, I think I'd be paying an awful lot of attention to where and what Austin Ortega is up to, oh, he who is now the new owner of the all-time NCAA record for game winning goals in a single season with 12, a record that was originally set 45 years ago and tied 6 times since, and not since 2002.

By the way, the 1st of those 12 game winners this season was against a certain team playing in the early game on Saturday. ;)
 
Re: Midwest Regional: Minnesota State, Nebraska-Omaha, Harvard, RIT

a Harvard-RIT final might be the most intellectual matchup of the weekend.


Powers &8^]
 
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Crimson on the Glass said:
Flattering for RIT, sure, but then no Mavericks remaining.
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OK, then let's just go with the Tigers-Red Cows final. It's a long trip back to Cambridge and we don't want to keep the Crimson out too late. (Of course I'm still sorry RIT didn't get a chance to beat Cornell in the regionals back in 2010 ... then we could have debated the relative merits of RIT-CU and RIT-HU matchups.) Oh well, good luck to all in South Bend and here's to ORANGE being the color of choice.
 
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So whose wearing what colors?

RIT - Orange? I'm assuming we're the away team here and that Home = White, away = color. God I hope that they don't decide to go with black.
MSU - White? Purple? *snickers*
Harvard - Crimson?
Omaha- White?

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Red Cows said:
Very, very nice sentiments in a press release from the Notre Dame Athletic Department:

http://pacmail.em.marketinghq.net/f...e6&hq_e=el&hq_m=867656&hq_l=1&hq_v=041e826ee6
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This is because the AD is scared to death of an empty arena. (ND is all about image...and money) I highly doubt most ND fans will show up. If ND bball wins Thursday, they'll stay home to watch them play Saturday. And the lady bball team should be playing Sunday. ND usually only sells out anymore for the "big" games (BC), and even then there are lots of no-shows. It would not surprise me if there are fewer than 1000 fans--and that counts the several hundred fans from each of the teams playing. But the place only holds 5000, so I'd rather be in a place that is 1/5 full than 1/10 full...

Can you tell how bitter I am with the program that I have supported for 4 decades?
 
Re: Midwest Regional: Minnesota State, Nebraska-Omaha, Harvard, RIT

lmg6841 said:
So whose wearing what colors?

RIT - Orange? I'm assuming we're the away team here and that Home = White, away = color. God I hope that they don't decide to go with black.
MSU - White? Purple? *snickers*
Harvard - Crimson?
Miami - White?
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Miami isn't in this regional - who cares what they wear. :p
 
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7outof10 said:
we have to pay $300 tickets to all 3 games a room and buss ride...but im still going and i will have a red shirt on for red cows first game
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RIT is doing $45 for tickets (first 200 students). Bus is free for first 65 students. Hotel is separate.
 
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