Years since last NCAA championship

billhoward Wrote:

With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell...
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That's just counting the schools that have ever won. What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?
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[Ignore the previous two msgs by me. I sent the same one three times.]

More have been bridesmaids than brides. Like Yale, like Brown, Clarkson, Princeton, Colgate, etcetera. Not to be cruel to Princeton, but do you sign on to the Old Nassau team in hopes of winning the NCAA championship, or earning an orange-and-black varsity P. (Okay, at Clarkson they play for keeps and they've come up short. But how many of them would be there if their SATs were 100 points higher?)

I mostly wanted to point out that for those teams that have tasted the fruit of victory, going into this past weekend three erstwhile NCAA hockey champs - Cornell, Denver, Michigan Tech -- had gone 30-plus years without another title. Who in Ithaca in 1970 would have thought more than a generation would pass and still no third NCAA title for the Big Red? And that after 1973, there'd only be two trips to the final four in the next two decades after seven trips in the previous eight years?

It's only going to get tougher because there are way more schools playing Division I hockey now. Tougher because there are more schools and tougher because you have to play more games to win it all. Used to be, you made the NCAAs, you won two games, you were champ. Now you've got to win four NCAA games (preceded by winning four ECAC games for Cornell), and with that, the law of averages sneaks up on you. Ask North Dakota this year or Colorado College last year.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2004 09:02PM by billhoward.