Re: The College Hockey Championship Belt Part III
Since North Dakota upgraded their athletic program in the summer of 2008 (while they were holders of the Play-up Belt), all games between Play-up teams on October 10, 2008 awarded a new Belt.
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[B]Belt 1:[/B]
10/10/2008 St. Cloud State defeats Mercyhurst
11/01/2008 Minnesota Duluth / merges with Belt 2
12/06/2008 (merges with Belt 3)
[B]Belt 2:[/B]
10/10/2008 Minnesota Duluth ties Lake Superior. Minnesota Duluth wins the shootout
10/11/2008 (merges with Belt 4)
10/24/2008 Alaska Anchorage
10/25/2008 Minnesota Duluth
11/01/2008 (merges with Belt 1)
[B]Belt 3:[/B]
10/10/2008 Lake Superior ties Minnesota Duluth
10/11/2008 Michigan Tech
10/17/2008 Colorado College / merges with Belt 5
11/14/2008 Minnesota State / merges with Belt 6
11/15/2008 Colorado College
11/21/2008 Alaska Anchorage
11/22/2008 Colorado College
12/06/2008 Minnesota Duluth / merges with Belt 1
[B]Belt 4:[/B]
10/10/2008 Northern Michigan defeats Michigan Tech
10/11/2008 Minnesota Duluth / merges with Belt 2
[B]Belt 5:[/B]
10/10/2008 Colorado College defeats Alabama-Huntsville
10/17/2008 (merges with Belt 3)
[B]Belt 6:[/B]
10/10/2008 Minnesota State defeats Bemidji State
10/17/2008 (merges with Original Belt)
11/15/2008 (merges with Belt 3)
[B]Original Belt:[/B]
10/17/2008 Minnesota State / merges with Belt 6
With all of the belts merged, it continues in the following manner:
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01/09/2009 St. Cloud State
02/07/2009 Alaska Anchorage
11/20/2009 Minnesota State
11/21/2009 Alaska Anchorage
11/27/2009 Colorado College
11/28/2009 Alaska Anchorage
12/04/2009 St. Cloud State
12/12/2009 Colorado College
01/08/2010 Minnesota Duluth
01/22/2010 Bemidji State
02/27/2010 Nebraska Omaha
03/13/2010 Ferris State
03/19/2010 Northern Michigan
03/26/2010 St. Cloud State
10/09/2010 Clarkson
01/03/2011 Minnesota Duluth
02/11/2011 St. Cloud State
03/12/2011 Minnesota Duluth
03/17/2011 Bemidji State
10/14/2011 Colorado College
11/04/2011 Nebraska Omaha
11/05/2011 Colorado College
12/09/2011 Alaska Anchorage
12/10/2011 Colorado College
01/14/2012 St. Cloud State
02/17/2012 Alaska Anchorage
02/18/2012 St. Cloud State
02/25/2012 Michigan Tech
03/02/2012 Colorado College
03/10/2012 Michigan Tech
Now, I just have a couple of comments / questions left.
1) There was an effort made in the Original Belt (obviously) and the Conference Belts to determine if the National Champion held said belt at the end of the season and they were awarded an Alternate if they did not. That practice was dropped from the regional and state belts. Should such an effort still be made?
2) Belt 2 / 3 that was awarded in the October 10, 2008 scramble. The game was a tie. UMD beat LSSU in a shoot-out. What is the ruling of the crowd?
3) Naming should be consistent. I used whatever was used in collegehockeystat's 2011-12 schedule / standings page, which usually corresponds to the desire of the school's Sports Information Director at this time. But, it changes (see: Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota State, UMass Lowell, etc.). What names should be used?
4) Are we sure that US International, U. Illinois-Chicago, Northern Arizona, and Kent State (there were probably a couple others, but US International and UIC were the two big ones who stuck around for awhile) have been D-I for their entire tenure? They are D-I now, but I don't know much about their athletic history.
5) Personally, I don't think that any of the three of these need to be actively posted, but I'll probably continue to track them at the least.
6) You may have noticed that I know believe SLU's game-by-game results more strongly than Clarkson's and I have changed the 01/10/1967 St. Lawrence (may be 02/28/1967) entry to 02/28/1967 St. Lawrence (may be 01/10/1967). I think that is more accurate.
7) I would greatly appreciate if someone (bumpreader?) can double-check this belt. I found a lot of discrepancies between my D-II belt and his, mostly from mistakes that I made.