Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Given the information we find on TBRW, my best guess would be that bracket integrity is being kept, and there's a thinking that Union wouldn't have a big enough travelling fan base to warrant moving them to an eastern site.

BC and UNH is plenty to carry the northeast regional, attendance-wise, and UMD and Wisconsin will definitely carry the Green Bay regional.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Isn't Union in NY???

Yes it is, but Union doesn't really travel very well to visiting sites. Plus, they have difficulty selling out their 2200-seat crackerjack box they call a rink unless they play a team that has a large travelling fanbase.

 

[UnionHockeyManiac]

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Yes it is, but Union doesn't really travel very well to visiting sites. Plus, they have difficulty selling out their 2200-seat crackerjack box they call a rink unless they play a team that has a large travelling fanbase.

I'd like to think that if Union makes it to the National Tournament for the first time in the team's history, fans will make the 4 hour drive to Schenectady. I'd really like to think that. I'm hoping for Manchester because it'd be on Saturday and Sunday rather than Friday and Saturday but in reality, I'd just be happy playing in the National Tourney...anywhere.

 

[goblue78]

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I'd like to think that if Union makes it to the National Tournament for the first time in the team's history, fans will make the 4 hour drive to Schenectady.

Wow -- the roads must be really chewed up this winter if it takes you 4 hours to get to Schenectady from Union.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Wow -- the roads must be really chewed up this winter if it takes you 4 hours to get to Schenectady from Union.

Someone should tell the Union guys that in order to host a game in the NCAA's they will have to submit a bid years in advance. They obviously are pretty clueless as to how all of this works.

 

[goblue78]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Someone should tell the Union guys that in order to host a game in the NCAA's they will have to submit a bid years in advance. They obviously are pretty clueless as to how all of this works.

I was just assuming that once they got to Schenectady, there was a transporter device or something there.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I was just assuming that once they got to Schenectady, there was a transporter device or something there.

pfft, they couldn't figure that **** out, its a liberal arts school!

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Someone should tell the Union guys that in order to host a game in the NCAA's they will have to submit a bid years in advance. They obviously are pretty clueless as to how all of this works.

Given how a lot of the regionals have been having difficulty with attendance, maybe a 2200-seat crackerjack box would be perfect! But yea, how long has it been since regionals were not on a neutral site? Not as far as I can remember...

pfft, they couldn't figure that **** out, its a liberal arts school!

They'd probably steal one from us; they're good at that. http://www.withoutapeer.com/2010/11/uh-blackout.html

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Given how a lot of the regionals have been having difficulty with attendance, maybe a 2200-seat crackerjack box would be perfect! But yea, how long has it been since regionals were not on a neutral site? Not as far as I can remember...

It wasn't that long ago that Mariucci hosted, 2-3 years, I think. It was the year that UMD beat Princeton in OT after tying the game with .8 seconds left.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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It wasn't that long ago that Mariucci hosted, 2-3 years, I think. It was the year that UMD beat Princeton in OT after tying the game with .8 seconds left.

2009 Tournament. It was the same year that UNH tied UND with less than a second and then won in overtime, and Miami blew a two goal lead in the title game with less than a minute. It was a crazy tournament that year.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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2009 Tournament. It was the same year that UNH tied UND with less than a second and then won in overtime, and Miami blew a two goal lead in the title game with less than a minute. It was a crazy tournament that year.

It wasn't just the national tournament. In the ECAC, the 11 and 12 seeds got past the first round. Wasn't there also a weird PWR moment where an 8th place team in a league had a chance to make it to the tournament at-large?

 

[UnionHockeyManiac]

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Wow, a lot of excitement over a little typo.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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It wasn't just the national tournament. In the ECAC, the 11 and 12 seeds got past the first round. Wasn't there also a weird PWR moment where an 8th place team in a league had a chance to make it to the tournament at-large?

Well, in '09, Duluth was the 7th place team in the WCHA, and could have made it as an at-large team, but wound up winning the Final Five to automatically advance.

I'm not sure if you are thinking about '06 when Bentley had a chance to give 2 Atlantic Hockey teams bids to the NCAA's. Had they beaten Holy Cross in the title game, Bentley would have been the auto-bid, and as a result they would become an automatic TUC. That would have given Holy Cross an extra 4-1-0 record against that TUC and would have vaulted Holy Cross up to a #3 seed. However, Holy Cross beat Bentley, got the autobid, and went on to defeat Minnesota in the first of a series of "epic" upsets in the NCAA Tournament. Had Bentley beaten Holy Cross for the Title...who knows what would have happened.

 

[kingdobbs]

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It wasn't just the national tournament. In the ECAC, the 11 and 12 seeds got past the first round. Wasn't there also a weird PWR moment where an 8th place team in a league had a chance to make it to the tournament at-large?

UVM last year.

Only it wasn't a chance; they actually made it. To be fair, the distance between third and ninth in HEA last year was 4 points, and UVM had a 6-1 OOC record, including wins over tournament team Yale and Denver, and two IC wins against BC.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

After the Beanpot semifinals, here are my projected brackets...

Bridgeport: (34)
#1 Yale vs #16 AH Champ
#7 RPI vs #10 Merrimack

Manchester: (33)
#4 UNH vs #14 UNO
#6 Denver vs #9 Union

Green Bay: (35)
#3 UMD vs #13 Western Michigan
#8 Wisconsin vs #11 Notre Dame

St. Louis: (34)
#2 BC vs #15 Dartmouth
#5 North Dakota vs #12 Michigan

 

[J.D.]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

After the Beanpot semifinals, here are my projected brackets...

Bridgeport: (34)
#1 Yale vs #16 AH Champ
#7 RPI vs #10 Merrimack

Manchester: (33)
#4 UNH vs #14 UNO
#6 Denver vs #9 Union

Green Bay: (35)
#3 UMD vs #13 Western Michigan
#8 Wisconsin vs #11 Notre Dame

St. Louis: (34)
#2 BC vs #15 Dartmouth
#5 North Dakota vs #12 Michigan

There would be a ton of possibilities under the current rankings. I based almost all of my final decisions on attendance:

East:

1. Yale
2. Denver
3. Union
4. RIT

Northeast:

1. UNH
2. RPI
3. Merrimack
4. Dartmouth

Midwest:

1. Minnesota-Duluth
2. Wisconsin
3. Notre Dame
4. Western Michigan

West:

1. BC
2. North Dakota
3. Michigan
4. Nebraska-Omaha

 

[J.D.]

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There would be a ton of possibilities under the current rankings. I based almost all of my final decisions on attendance:

East:

1. Yale
2. Denver
3. Union
4. RIT

Northeast:

1. UNH
2. RPI
3. Merrimack
4. Dartmouth

Midwest:

1. Minnesota-Duluth
2. Wisconsin
3. Notre Dame
4. Western Michigan

West:

1. BC
2. North Dakota
3. Michigan
4. Nebraska-Omaha

Moy:

This week’s brackets

St. Louis
14 Nebraska-Omaha vs. 2 Boston College
11 Notre Dame vs. 6 North Dakota

Green Bay
13 Western Michigan vs. 3 Minnesota-Duluth
12 Michigan vs. 8 Wisconsin

Bridgeport
16 RIT vs. 1 Yale
9 Union vs. 5 Denver

Manchester
15 Dartmouth vs. 4 New Hampshire
10 Merrimack vs. 7 Rensselaer

Looks like the only difference was between Michigan and Notre Dame. My reasoning was Michigan would help attendance in St. Louis more than ND would.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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Moy:

This week’s brackets

St. Louis
14 Nebraska-Omaha vs. 2 Boston College
11 Notre Dame vs. 6 North Dakota

Green Bay
13 Western Michigan vs. 3 Minnesota-Duluth
12 Michigan vs. 8 Wisconsin

Bridgeport
16 RIT vs. 1 Yale
9 Union vs. 5 Denver

Manchester
15 Dartmouth vs. 4 New Hampshire
10 Merrimack vs. 7 Rensselaer

Looks like the only difference was between Michigan and Notre Dame. My reasoning was Michigan would help attendance in St. Louis more than ND would.

What he might have been thinking (I'm not sure, I didn't read the article) is that Notre Dame is a bus trip to St. Louis while Michigan is a flight no matter where they go.

 

[claver2010]

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Before he altered it for attendance, what a bracket for BC:

Midwest Regional (Green Bay):
15 Dartmouth vs. 2 Boston College
10 Merrimack vs. 7 Rensselaer

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

Before he altered it for attendance, what a bracket for BC:

Midwest Regional (Green Bay):
15 Dartmouth vs. 2 Boston College
10 Merrimack vs. 7 Rensselaer

They'd just have to hope and pray that Merrimack didn't get past RPI