WCHA 2010-11 Schedules Collaboration

Yager · Feb 8, 2010

So we know quite a bit early on already but let's fill in some blanks...

Travel Partners + Travel Partners = Cluster****mates
Duluth/Tech + Minnesota/Wisconsin
CC/Denver + Mankato/UAA
UND/SCSU + Bemidji/UNO

Just a review... Within each cluster, each team plays the other 3 teams in two series' (4 games). Then they play 4 more home and 4 away series' against those outside of their cluster for total of 28 conference games. The clusters will change each year but the travel partners stay together for at least the next 5 years and at the end of 5 years every team will have played each other the same amount (other than your travel partner).

About the clusters from Sioux Sports

Previously Released Schedules (tentative but pretty solid):
A bunch of WCHA schools just released their's recently. Instead of sorting through which ones have been announced, here you go. North Dakota's official one comes tomorrow. Note that Wisconsin and Minnesota have some weird stuff going on. They have a couple of Fri/Sun games now, which are the icebreaker tourney (applicable to holy cross, bu, and notre dame) and the huntsville series. Also, Minnesota now lists the home St. Cloud series as being 10/23-24 (Sat/Sun) even though the St. Cloud website does not yet.

Colorado College
Bemidji
North Dakota
SCSU
Duluth
Denver
UNO
Mankato
Minnesota
UAA
Wisconsin

Based off of all of this, this year's rotation gives each team these matchups...

Anyone else have any WCHA game information? If I've made any typos please let me know.

moose97 · Feb 8, 2010

Re: WCHA 2010-11 Schedules Collaboration

From an old Bemidij Pioneer article (back when the '10-'11 schedule was released in ~ Sept '09):

In developing the WCHA’s five year schedule, Serratore said the cleanest option was chosen. “Basically the traditional travel partners will remain the same, with the addition of BSU being paired with UNO,” he said.

In 2010-11, BSU and UNO will be joined by UND and SCSU to form a four-team cluster. The Beavers will play each team in the cluster four times (home and home series) for a total of 12 games. BSU will then play the remaining eight teams in the league two game each, for a total of 16 games, with eight on the road and eight at home.

The cluster mates will rotate in each of the five seasons. In 2011-12 BSU/UNO will be joined by Colorado College and Denver, in 2012-13 Michigan Tech and UMD, 2013-14 Alaska-Anchorage and Mankato, and 2014-15 Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Under this schedule every team in the league will play every other team at home three out of five years – except for the travel partners who will play each other every year, Serratore explained. “Over the course of the five year schedule, everybody plays each other the same amount of times – home and away,” he said.

For North Dakota in 2010-11, the Sioux will play SCSU, BSU and UNO home and away. In addition, North Dakota will host Alaska-Anchorage, Denver, Minnesota and UMD. On the road for league games UND will travel to Colorado College, Michigan Tech, Mankato and Wisconsin.

In 2011-12, Minnesota and Wisconsin will join UND/SCSU as cluster mates. In league games UND will host SCSU, CC, Tech, Mankato, Minnesota, UNO and Wisconsin. Road games include SCSU, UAA, BSU, Denver, Minnesota, UMD and Wisconsin.

Yager · Feb 8, 2010

Re: WCHA 2010-11 Schedules Collaboration

Composite schedule so far...