No, you are not alone. I don't even like the Bemidji State game, to be honest (Yes I realize it could have been a whole lot worse, but this is no gimme, either).

an elite team to get to the FF regardless of the bracket, Denver has been right behind Miami all year and could either be a smart upset pick since they lost their last 2 (first 2 game losing streak of the year!) or could rebound huge and end up being even better than expected. Wisco is very, very solid. We split two very close games with them, with some controversy in the loss, but they definitely scare me. Boston College doesn't really scare me, but the Sioux do. They're probably the only team in the country that's as hot as we are right now and I feel like we never match up well against them. As for the other two seeds, Cornell is also on a roll, has a great goalie and I think their slow, defensive style could really frustrate our offense into taking dumb penalties if we're not careful. I don't know much about SCSU but they did well in the SEC-by-which-I-mean-WCHA. Bemidji didn't have the most impressive regular season against real opponents, but had some solid wins over Miami and some other good teams and definitely showed up in the NCAA's last year. NorDak and Cornell definitely scare me more than Bemidji though and they're not a surprise to be overlooked this year. I feel like Miami always has a massive score to settle. I was terrified thinking about how they lost to OSU once in the quarters they would be pissed enough to level us and that didn't happen, so I'm pretty much over them and their mightier-than-thou-righteous-anger-strength-of-the-gods aura. Divine mandate and dynasties aren't really my thing, I'm American, democracy is more my style. Every bracket has one team that scares me that we'd likely have to beat. It's only 16 teams, they're all going to be pretty/really good. Miami is good yes and listening to their fan base you would think their team played the worst game of their collective lives and still barely lost to us by the slimmest of 3 goal margins, including about 20 posts, the 3,967 "Easy" rebounds Hunwick left that they didn't get to and a ton of horrible calls against them. False, Miami played really well the first 2.5 periods and outside of the first 5ish, Michigan outplayed them. There was some luck involved, of course, it is hockey, but the game wasn't really all that close. They had some good chances that didn't go in that either Hunwick came up big on or our defense played great, but we had more. I don't think Michigan had it in them to play a better game, honestly, they were literally diving for pucks all over the place, blocking shots, taking hits to make the play and whatever else. Miami does the same, we both play up to our potential, that's an incredible game that's decided purely by lucky breaks, but if Michigan plays the same way they did against them last time and Miami doesn't up the ante to more than they've done this year (yes, more, they were playing as well as they have this year, I think, or pretty close to it, just not out of their minds like Michigan), it's Michigan's game. I would be more worried about Michigan able to play that game again. The Michigan that showed up against Northern would have needed a miracle to beat the Miami that showed up against Michigan. And the Michigan that Northern played was playing very well, for the most part. Miami takes everything personally, I've honestly gotten really tired of their fan base. Miami is a great, great team, but I'm not going to be scared of them when we can be just as good. This team massively underachieved in the season, but they got it together and they're in the NCAA. They're playing their best hockey of the season. Whatever happens now is pretty much what would have happened if pre-season prediction Michigan shows up the whole season. If they lose to Miami, if they lose to Bemidji, so be it. For what it's worth, this season is already better than last year where we dominated much of the regular season and then lost the two most important games of the season, back to back. Any more upsets (it feels so weird to think of Michigan winning as an upset) are pure gravy. Last season's team was ashamed to lose to Air Force, this team, I think can hold it's head high, if Bemidji creams them 20-2. None of us, especially the team, would be happy ending the season in a loss, I think, but after the season for them and Michigan sports in general the last couple weeks have been a small miracle and if the magic runs out, the magic runs out. For the first time in (my) living memory, for a significant part of the season Michigan wasn't supposed to make the tournament. And they did. This has been far, far longer than I intended, I got emotional, so I'm just going to wrap it up and say that I'm just going to enjoy the game(s) next weekend and look forward to a bright future.

Better than BC in Boston. I think Wisconsin in St. Paul would be marginally better. Pseudo home ice is worth a lot for us.