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BREAKING: Michigan positive COVID case - withdraws from tournament. Minnesota-Duluth advances.
BREAKING: Michigan positive COVID case - withdraws from tournament. Minnesota-Duluth advances.
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NCAA Tourney Team Selection Options
- Thread starter DrunkTrainPolka
- Start date
They couldn't make it work in Pittsburgh. They explored that option.
The Zlax45
Registered User
Really disagree with this assessment. They could have hosted the tournament anywhere in the country but decided they didn't want to change anything unlike the men's and women's hoops tournament, and the women's hockey tourney.
lakersparty
New member
So is 3 hours before the game the cutoff to know if a game is actually happening? I just want to know if I can be relieved if we make it past 3:30 and LSSU-UMass can happen.
Nick Papagiorgio
Holding court
WOW... we're only 2 teams away from the old 12-team tournament.
Currently the B1G is 0-2.
Currently the B1G is 0-2.
What is their to disagree with? Mike Kemp said they explored having whole thing in Pittsburgh. Did someone else offer to host it and could accommodate all the teams?
WOW... we're only 2 teams away from the old 12-team tournament.
Currently the B1G is 0-2.
Yeah, apparently B1G hockey took a look at B1G basketball and said, "here, hold my beer."
First Time Long Time
Rebuilding
Then move it from Pittsburgh.
this was bungled... but it's the NCAA so I expect nothing less.
Ok...to where? Who offered?
First Time Long Time
Rebuilding
Who says someone has to offer? The NCAA can't ask?
Its a BS argument.
The tourney needed to be bubbled...if your original location can't do it...you find another...you don't wait or need an offer.
First Time Long Time
Rebuilding
No they shouldn't have.
First Time Long Time
Rebuilding
Again...they can't ask? It's a tourney that doesn't make them much money so I honestly doubt they tried all that hard.
TigerFan86-87
R!!!!...I!!!!!...T!!!!!!
But even if they had bubbled, Neither Michigan nor Notre Dame were infected in Fargo and Albany. The results to the tournament would have been the same. ND would not have been allowed in and Michigan would have been kicked out this afternoon.
I don't know how the bubble would have worked, though. The sports that bubbled last year (NHL, NBA) required a certain amount of isolation time before the games and practices started. This would not have been possible with the conference championships just ending 5 days ago.
I know the basketball tournament did a bubble in Indy with a similar timing situation. The way the winter sports season has gone, I think they got really really lucky that only 1 team had an issue coming in. Now that the remaining 16 teams have been in Indy for a week and a half, the bubble concept should be helping prevent any further disturbances.
If hockey followed that plan, the bubble would only really protect the frozen four teams, not really the other 12.
First Time Long Time
Rebuilding
I think it could have been done if they'd actually planned for it during the season. Move the tourney back a week from the conference tourneys and bubble it. If there are no or minimal fans...you don't need a massive NHL arena or city to do it in.
if the NCHC could bubble in Omaha...the NCAA could have bubbled this tourney and had contingency plans for teams if they got ill.