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Wolverines vs Broncos

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alfablue said:
That, I'm sure of. I'm wondering of the change of status for other teams if Michigan becomes a TUC and changes their PWR (or if it does).
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Here is a quote from the Pairwise and Bracketology thread that may be or may not be somewhat helpful:

Numbers said:
A few comments on moves in the PWR from tonight's [last night] games:

Because their overall positions were solid, neither QU nor Miami suffered from losing.
BU defeating Merrimack caused Merrimack to drop out of the ranks of TUCs, and thus, winning the game cost BU a few comparisions.
Notre Dame PWR rank continues to be several points below their RPI rank.
Wisconsin was helped by Denver tonight, because CC dropped from being a TUC. Again, the effect of this was to bring Wisco's TUC record in line with their RPI. A sort of normalization.

For tomorrow night [tonight]:
CCHA:
If Michigan again defeats WMU, this will change, as Michigan will become a TUC, and NoDame was 4-0 vs Michigan.
In contrast, if Ferris again beats OSU, then No Dame will lose a 1-0-1 from their TUC record. However, I believe that if both of these happen, then Notre Dame will still rise in the PWR in comparison to their RPI.
About OSU: Miami was 3-1-1 against them. So, if FSU beats OSU again, then Miami's TUC record drops to 9-5-1. This is still very good, and would not change anything. Add their 1-1 with Michigan, and still nothing changes.
WCHA:
CC winning the next 2 would hurt Wisconsin for the above reason in reverse.
Miami and QU are still more (QU) or less (Miami) safe.
The Bubble (in this case from #15 Union down to maybe Cornell at #21, is very unpredictable due to close RPIs.
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You might want to ask a question about Michigan winning tonight in that thread; they're pretty good about responding. I think if Michigan wins WMU might fall out of the top 16, but don't know for sure. A lot of it has to do with how UNH, Niagara, SCSU, NoDame, Union, Wisco, RPI, and others do tonight and Sunday.
 
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WMU coach Andy Murray said. "We didn't like the two goals we gave up. We gave up a couple of great transition opportunities. I really liked the effort in the game tonight. ... We need to be better. I think there were a couple things with the referees that were not as good as they need to be, just like how I need to be a better coach."

At least the refs missed some of the obvious penalties with the lumberjack work from Witkowski and DeKeyser last night.
 
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All I got to see was the score feed, so it will be interesting to read some "reviews".

Interesting consequence- before ND won, the moved from 14th to 11th, and Western dropped to a tie for 14th. Not sure what you need to make it now....
 
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I listened to the first two periods with our homer announcers, even after down-playing their descriptions it sounded as if we dominated. But then again, look who was calling them game...
 
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fakeLL- still think Red should be fired? :)

Where are all the Western Fans??? I could have sworn there were a bunch here the other day. I want to hear some reports. I've heard the ones from our side....
 
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alfablue said:
Where are all the Western Fans??? I could have sworn there were a bunch here the other day. I want to hear some reports. I've heard the ones from our side....
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Come on Bronco fans? Where did you all run off to? You were ready to crown yoursleves a little while ago, and now that your team has issues, you run off?

imposterLL- yea, I thought so...
 
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alfablue said:
Come on Bronco fans? Where did you all run off to? You were ready to crown yoursleves a little while ago, and now that your team has issues, you run off?

imposterLL- yea, I thought so...
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alfa, you are trying to steal my job...
 
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alfablue said:
Come on Bronco fans? Where did you all run off to? You were ready to crown yoursleves a little while ago, and now that your team has issues, you run off?

imposterLL- yea, I thought so...
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we are all busy playing with the pairwise predictor.
 
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ubish said:
we are all busy playing with the pairwise predictor.
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As long as the longer time posters like bronco24 don't take it personally- this "absue" isnt' for you. And for for you guys- I wish you luck- but being the second half of 14th- yikes- I don't want to go through the math to figure out how you make it. Worse yet, if you have to root for a team you hate just to get you in.... Like Michigan. (not that I think that's a way in, but I understand the pain)

But to fake and posing fans, pretending to be lunatics- well, you get what you dish out, don't you?
 
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alfablue said:
As long as the longer time posters like bronco24 don't take it personally- this "absue" isnt' for you. And for for you guys- I wish you luck- but being the second half of 14th- yikes- I don't want to go through the math to figure out how you make it. Worse yet, if you have to root for a team you hate just to get you in.... Like Michigan. (not that I think that's a way in, but I understand the pain)

But to fake and posing fans, pretending to be lunatics- well, you get what you dish out, don't you?
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One way they get knocked out is for 2 teams outside the top 16 win there conference tournaments.
 
alfablue said:
At the moment, Western is pretty fortunate that each conference has a team in the top16, so assuming there are no upsets....
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Yeah. Looking at the predictor we will most likely end up 14th. That means 2 upsets are ok. 3 means we are out.
 
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alfablue said:
As long as the longer time posters like bronco24 don't take it personally- this "absue" isnt' for you. And for for you guys- I wish you luck- but being the second half of 14th- yikes- I don't want to go through the math to figure out how you make it. Worse yet, if you have to root for a team you hate just to get you in.... Like Michigan. (not that I think that's a way in, but I understand the pain)

But to fake and posing fans, pretending to be lunatics- well, you get what you dish out, don't you?
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Still here...just had to step away from the keyboard for a couple of days. Not much to say other than Michigan completely dominated us. You guys dominated in every aspect and it was a complete embarrassment.

I knew once Anastos found a way to pull out 2 wins in Alaska, we were going to have our hands full. Many Bronco fans were excited at the thought of ending Michigan's streak, I was more than comfortable letting someone else try to end that.

We've played awful hockey over the last 8 weeks, but I'm still pleased with direction of our program. We have a great system in place, but we still need a few more high level recruiting classes before we can start talking about becoming an "elite" program.

Good luck this weekend. If you guys win and knock us out of the NCAA's, you will have truly earned it. Here's to hoping we might have 1 game left...
 
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broncos24 said:
My anus is still sore from the pounding Red gave us
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Well, perhaps some selection show Sunday will feel like hemmoriod balm....

Over on our rivals thread- it's a curious discussion of IF we get in and you guys get in. As far as I can tell, it would be pretty much impossible for UM to be in at anything other than the 16 seed. And since we are "hosts" in GR, theres where we go. So what happens with Western... well, someone thinks that the comittee will put the two 4 seeds (14th's is the 2nd 4 seed) in GR. huh?

I think people forget that there's a regional just north of a MAC school across the border. While you would be very warmly recieved in Grand Rapids, there's no way that we somehow get promoted to a 3 over you, so it makes more sense that you get Toledo.

If that's all confusing, yes. ;)

Oh, and IF we are the only upset, I think you still get in. But that's not exactly easy at this point....
 
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