Thursday, May 06, 2010

NCAA hockey tournament could be changing

When I first read Brad's article I didn't like the idea, then I called a couple fellow hockey fans like myself and came to the conclusion that this could be a change for the better. Can you imagine if UND had gotten to play Yale in the REA instead of some run down half empty hockey arena in Worcester, Massachusetts for a best two out of three series. Yeah! In my opinion there is no way that Yale beats UND two out of three times. Before some fans from hockey east attepmpt to take my head off, I lived in Ayer, MA for a year and a half. I worked in Worcester, it is a run down city and the DCU center is a dump as well. Those are accurate statements.

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The NCAA would win because they would sell a lot more tickets than they did this year in the NCAA regional’s. I mean seriously, you have beautiful building like the Xcel Energy Center which seats about 19,000 and you can’t even sell 10,000 tickets? That is unacceptable. Also, with home venues I don’t think you would see crappy ice like you did in Fort Wayne Indiana. The ice conditions there and at the Frozen four were a disgrace and made the NCAA look like a second rate organization. I think the NCAA can do better and if it takes a few tweaks to make things better so be it.
The format for the NCAA men’s hockey tournament may be changing in a couple of years.

Proposals were discussed at an annual college hockey national meeting in Florida last weekend and one gained the most traction.

Under the most popular proposal, the tournament would stay as a 16-team field, but the first round would be a best-of-three series played at the venue of the higher seed.

The eight teams advancing to the quarterfinals would play at one of two super regional sites. The quarterfinals would be one-game shots with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line. The Frozen Four would not change.

The proposal would have to be approved by the NCAA and could not happen until the 2011-12 season at the earliest. Regional sites already have been scheduled for the upcoming season.[Grand Forks Herald]


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  1. UnknownFri May 07, 10:24:00 AM 2010

    i f'n love this idea!

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  2. UnknownFri May 07, 10:57:00 AM 2010

    i don't know if this has been addressed or not, but would this mean that the weekend between the first round and the frozen four would no longer be an off weekend? but rather would they play the "super-regional" games that weekend?

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  3. TroyFri May 07, 12:43:00 PM 2010

    Could you imagine if Michigan would have had to travel to Bemidji for the first round series? The Glas would have been rocking for the final series there!

    I love this idea also. To take it a step further, would you divide the nation in half so that the eight "western most" teams are a region and the eight "eastern most" teams are a region? I think it would cut down on travel costs and more fans may be able to travel. Both of those mean more $$$ in the NCAA Pockets.

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