Michigan vs Bemidji State

Great news. Should be able to get quite a few fans there.

Final is at 8pm Sunday http://www.memorialcoliseum.com/events.aspx/ncaa-ice-hockey-midwest-reg…

to Bemidji State, but I like this draw a whole hell of a lot better than playing North Dakota in the first round.

And the road trip will be a lot shorter than expected. What's the best way to get tickets? I can't remember if Michigan will be selling any so we can all sit together or if we should just buy them through the regional itself.

I actually have a summar cabin on a lake 15 minutes from the school ... cool little campus with hot girls ... that said i cant wait to go down to ft. wayne and watch an ass whopping

find this bracket extremely winnable? Bemidji hasn't played strongly lately and they also played a pretty much completely cupcake schedule in-conference and we're just above .500 in their non-conference schedule, if I remember correctly. But, then again, Miami lost in the CCHA pretty early last year and look where they went and Bemidji played strong in the NCAA's last year, so maybe they were just caught looking ahead and will be far better next weekend. And we just beat Miami, pretty handily, so the team has to have confidence that they can take the Redhawks down too. The biggest problems I see are that Miami is going to be furious at us because of their whole "We, the Dynastic Brotherhood, hath declared that the championships three shall be ours" thing and we already prevented them from getting one of them and if we did it again they'd probably faint in apoplectic shock, so I doubt we see the same team in Fort Wayne that we saw at the Joe. And from the Northern game, I thought it was abundantly apparent that our guys were exhausted, likely from not just skating with, but skating way past Miami the night before. Miami is going to have something of the same problem, but I don't see Alabama playing them as tough as Bemidji plays us and therein lies the two-fold problem of trying to save enough energy to beat Miami and in the process losing to Bemidji or going all out the first night to beat Bemidji but maybe lack the energy to hang with Miami. Obviously you preach the latter, but what you want isn't always what you get. But even with those challenges, I really like our chances of getting to the Frozen Four. Not as much as I liked them last year, but, well, we all know how that turned out... :-( The good news is that Red is 15-4 in the first game at the NCAA tournament. He's reached 10 frozen fours, so he's 10-5 in the regional championships. After that I'm pretty sure the numbers get less pretty, but he's made the Frozen Four in fully HALF of the years he's made the tournament, which is incredible to me. Every time I write something like this, the thought of letting him go at some point gets harder and harder :'-(

Some quick info I found on Bemidji State for those who are interested: Overall Record 29-9-4 which is extremely impressive until you see that they have a conference record of 14-3-1 and this is a conference where every other team has a sub .500 non conference record. They played several CCHA teams this year, they split against UNO, had a win and a tie against WMU, lost to Ohio State, beat Miami, and had a win and a tie against NMU. Slightly OT- can anyone explain to me why Alaska got into the tournament and Ferris didn't? Ferris had the better overall record, better conference record, and made it to the Joe yet Alaska got picked over them, was it just the power of the ninja space bears?

Good run for Hunwick, but if Hogan is healthy he is the better option. Just don't tell the defense who is in goal.

Do we know yet which sections of the arena will be the Michigan sections?

For a long time, I read the name of that school as "Benji State"