NCAA tournament 2016

[billhoward]

First games of the tournament, two of the four No. 1 seeds are gone:

Providence (the 4th 1-seed) goes down 2-1 to Minnesota-Duluth. As long as Providence was in the tournament, Cornell could point to a victory over a really good team back at holiday week.

St Cloud State (2nd 1-seed) makes up a 4-2 deficit to Ferris State entering the third, ties at 4, loses 18 seconds into OT. See ya. That has to be brutal on the team and fans.

UMass-Lowell wins 3-2 over Yale a minute into OT off a good forecheck. So much for the Ivies in the NCAAs in 2015-16. UM-L plays Quinnipiac Sunday.

Good thing RIT got all the ink on being up-and-coming and in a nice new rink before the first faceoff. Lost 4-0 to overall 1-seed Quinnipiac. Q gets Yale or UMass-Lowell tomorrow.

[css228]

First games of the tournament, two of the four No. 1 seeds are gone:

Providence (the 4th 1-seed) goes down 2-1 to Minnesota-Duluth. As long as Providence was in the tournament, Cornell could point to a victory over a really good team back at holiday week.

St Cloud State (2nd 1-seed) makes up a 4-2 deficit to Ferris State entering the third, ties at 4, loses 18 seconds into OT. See ya. That has to be brutal on the team and fans.

Good thing RIT got all the ink on being up-and-coming and in a nice new rink before the first faceoff. Lost 4-0 to overall 1-seed Quinnipiac. Q gets Yale or UMass-Lowell tomorrow.

Watching North Dakota right now and they look pretty incredible. They're making Michigan look completely incompetent at getting the puck out of their own end

[Al DeFlorio]

Watching North Dakota right now and they look pretty incredible. They're making Michigan look completely incompetent at getting the puck out of their own end

Did the same to what had been a red-hot Northeastern team.

[css228]

Watching North Dakota right now and they look pretty incredible. They're making Michigan look completely incompetent at getting the puck out of their own end

Did the same to what had been a red-hot Northeastern team.

God I wish I could watch a system like this employed at Lynah. It looks like they just decided to keep most of the Hakstol system in place.

[billhoward]

Took until the fourth round of NCAA basketball for a one-seed to fall (Oregon by 12 to Oklahoma).

Back in hockeyland, Denver is whomping BU - 5-0 with 2 minutes left in the second. Ouch. Jack Eichel era for sure is over.

[Scersk '97]

Well, that's it for Michigan. Story of the game is NoDak outshooting the highly-touted Michigan offense by nearly 2-to-1.

[scoop85]

Yale just took a 2-1 lead halfway through the 2nd on a beautiful goal

[imafrshmn]

Really pathetic crowd at the Times-Union (granted, this is intermission. but still not much during play.)

[marty]

Really pathetic crowd at the Times-Union (granted, this is intermission. but still not much during play.)

QPAC and RIT traveled well.  Attendance was much better for their game. Not many RIP or Onion fans evident. An old story.

Here's the Q section now that they've left.

[billhoward]

Really pathetic crowd at the Times-Union (granted, this is intermission. but still not much during play.)

QPAC and RIT traveled well.  Attendance was much better for their game. Not many RIP or Onion fans evident. An old story.

Curious if either school subsidized buses to the game. Given what it costs to mount a serious hockey effort, five or ten buses is a cheap cost adder.

Six/seven years ago, Marist women made it into the basketball big dance and the school chartered a plane to the round one game. Student cost was something on the order of $50. Or so the tour guides related the following fall. That caused a murmur of approval among sports fan would-be matriculants. IIRC, it was offset by hearing the school has zero tolerance for alcohol in the dorms.

[Al DeFlorio]

Yale just took a 2-1 lead halfway through the 2nd on a beautiful goal

2-2 in the third

[billhoward]

Yale just took a 2-1 lead halfway through the 2nd on a beautiful goal

2-2 in the third

And now to overtime at 2-2.

[Trotsky]

Really pathetic crowd at the Times-Union (granted, this is intermission. but still not much during play.)

QPAC and RIT traveled well.  Attendance was much better for their game. Not many RIP or Onion fans evident. An old story.

Curious if either school subsidized buses to the game. Given what it costs to mount a serious hockey effort, five or ten buses is a cheap cost adder.

Six/seven years ago, Marist women made it into the basketball big dance and the school chartered a plane to the round one game. Student cost was something on the order of $50. Or so the tour guides related the following fall. That caused a murmur of approval among sports fan would-be matriculants. IIRC, it was offset by hearing the school has zero tolerance for alcohol in the dorms.

IIRC Q had busses for fans to prior NC$$ games.

[andyw2100]

Really pathetic crowd at the Times-Union (granted, this is intermission. but still not much during play.)

QPAC and RIT traveled well.  Attendance was much better for their game. Not many RIP or Onion fans evident. An old story.

Curious if either school subsidized buses to the game. Given what it costs to mount a serious hockey effort, five or ten buses is a cheap cost adder.

Six/seven years ago, Marist women made it into the basketball big dance and the school chartered a plane to the round one game. Student cost was something on the order of $50. Or so the tour guides related the following fall. That caused a murmur of approval among sports fan would-be matriculants. IIRC, it was offset by hearing the school has zero tolerance for alcohol in the dorms.

IIRC Q had busses for fans to prior NC$$ games.

I'm fairly certain that in 2010 when we were in Albany with RIT for the first round of the NCAAs, there was talk of how RIT had brought a bunch of students on (free?) busses.

[Trotsky]

Yale had four chances to clear the puck on Lowell's OT winner.  Blech.