around the NCAA 11/11-11/12

[dadeo]

colgate 1 dartmouth 0 - 2nd period
yale 2 st. lawrence 3 2nd period
clarkson 2 brown 1 2nd period

[jy3]

'gate up 2-0
maine up on lowell 6-1
2-2 clarkson brown
miami up 1-0 on lake
army over airforce 1-0
neb-oh up on mich state 3-2
nmu and michigan at nil
notre dame up on bgsu 2-0
slu(T) up on yale 4-3
ferris up 2-0 on western michigan

[Trotsky]

ECAC Games All Final:

#3 Cornell 4 Harvard 3 (yeah!)
Colgate 3 Dartmouth 2
Brown 4 Clarkson 3
RPI 4 Quinnipiac 2
SLU 7 Yale 5
Union 6 Princeton 2

Other USCHO Top 10 Teams

#1 CC 2 #5 Wisconsin 2
#2 Michigan 3 NMU 1
#4 Maine 9 Lowell 2
UNO 7 #6 MSU 4 (boo)
#7 Denver 3 Mankato 3
#8 BC idle
#9 Vermont 6 Providence 2
#10 North Dakota 5 UMD 3

[dadeo]

gonna be wierd rooting for MSU this year, eh

[billhoward]

[Q]dadeo Wrote: gonna be wierd rooting for MSU this year, eh[/q]... and the teams we (it is hoped) beat in the Florida Classic. So much rides on the few games we play against OOC opponents and you have to hope for good outcomes against them and then for them to have good outcomes against their opponnents.

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
... and the teams we (it is hoped) beat in the Florida Classic. So much rides on the few games we play against OOC opponents and you have to hope for good outcomes against them and then for them to have good outcomes against their opponnents.
[/q]


Doesn't even matter if we beat them or not - well, it does of course, but not as far as their RPI affects ours. Rooting for NU right now is a good idea. And while we don't know if we'll play Maine or Minn-Duluth, a side routing to either of them isn't a bad idea.

I don't have mathematical proof, but I get the feeling that other ECAC teams winning OOC games is more important than other teams we play winning their other games. After all, each time an ECAC team wins an OOC game, it not only helps us, but every other team in the ECAC, which therefore helps us more. Not that there are many OOC games for a while.

[dadeo]

very true.  what surprises me in looking at the early RPI rankings (on siouxsports) is that our OOP % is so high so early (highest in the country)...  (however our OP% is low)

http://siouxsports.com/hockey/rankings/rpi.php

so at least that means the ECAC has scheduled some tough games early so far...
LGR