Michigan Hockey - tie for 9th in PWR
with the Gophers, though their # is better
and 10th in RPI
updated early this a.m.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:04 AM ^
For morons, is this good or bad?
February 25th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^
Very good.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
He found Beilein's stash of secret sauce or pixie dust or whatever it is that makes the basketball team so dangerous at the end of seemingly every season.
In the last month, Hockey has gone from, ".500 team we can be excited about for future seasons" to bubble team, to now firmly grabbing an at large bid. They are dangerous.
EDIT: JB doesn't have a stash of pixie dust. That shit is magic. Magic would certainly be an unfair advantage and an NCAA violation.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
against Wisconsin, and we are a 99.99999% lock for he NCAA tournament.
February 25th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
did you just assume the NCAA tournament's gender?
February 25th, 2018 at 10:08 AM ^
Wow! Didn't think they'd get that high! Looks like they open Friday at home against Wisconsin. Not sure this is a good matchup because UW has played them tough all year.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:14 AM ^
How are we lookong seeding wise in the NCAAs?
February 25th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
College hockey is crazy, impossible to say until all the conference tournaments are completed. I think Brian on Twitter said the best case scenario (winning the Big Ten Tourney) would put us at 7. I think that's a bit conservative, a win against ND and OSU likely moves us up to 6 and maybe even 5 if some of the other teams above that ranking don't end up winning their conferences and lose to a lower rated (most likely non Top 16 PWR) team?
February 25th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
We are a 3rd seed in a regional who’s 1 seed is Pairswise #2 overall, since we are #10 overall. This is the pure spot; the NCAA will move teams around a bit to improve attendance (yeah right) and avoid league match ups. Win and we stay at least a regional 3 seed and we might get lucky and move up to a regional 2 seed.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
It's crazy that Minnesota is ranked 9th in the country, but 4th in the state of Minnesota
February 25th, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
What's even MORE crazy is, for many players on all of those Minnesota teams -- they think going to college in Minnesota is "going south where it's warmer."
February 25th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
Yost is going to be rockin next weekend, this will be an excellent way to start post-season play.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
What would be the best way to buy tickets for that game?
February 25th, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
Neither mgoblue.com or stubhub has tickets listed yet.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:44 AM ^
Season ticket holders had until last night to reserve their current seats for next weekend. I would expect tickets could come available through the MGoBlue we sight today if there are some remaining.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
3 Michigan vs 6 Wisconsin in the B1G Tournament First Round next weekend at Yost.
Friday- 7:30pm/BTN+
Saturday- 7:30pm/BTN+
Sunday (if nec.)- 7:30pm/BTN+
#GoBlue
February 25th, 2018 at 10:57 AM ^
Why the fuck
Are hey never on tv? Btn+ is dumb
February 25th, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
but this probably is at least partially on Jim Delaney for moving up the B1G Tournament to shoehorn it into MSG's schedule. A quick glance at the BTN schedule shows that they are televising a B1G Tournament men's game on Friday evening and B1G women's games Saturday evening.
Sunday evening at 7:30 has a rerun of a regular BTN show, but I doubt they're going to change the TV schedule to accommodate us.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:26 AM ^
is that none of the pre-semifinal games are on a network other than BTN. This move forward isn't helping in terms of the tournament's TV visability.
ESPN2 is literally showing a Sun Belt basketball game next Friday evening at 7 PM ET.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
[redacted]
I couldn't bring myself to type clueless dickhead.
February 26th, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^
MAYBE one of the games would be televised on FSD, *MAYBE*.
Now all games are televised, though you have to pay a $7 subscription to get your team. As I live 5 states away, this is a much better deal than paying to $15 a month to get "all" of the regional FS networks that were out of market, and catch the marginal number of games that were actually broadcast.
I get to watch UM wrestling, gymastics, softball, field hockey. These are all good things. Not everything about this environment is bad.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
Holy shit I might buy it just to post a pirated stream on MGoBlog, this is insane. F'ing $60 million disbursed to schools each year for TV rights and they can't use an overflow channel for playoff hockey.
Yep, I'm going to do it. Discord (https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/218485407-Streamer-Mod…) has password protected channels and streaming.
I'll post the stream, you'll need to e-mail me your MGoBlog username, and I'll include a string of characters to include on a post you edit within the streaming post to verify that it's actually you not and not the dirtbag NCAA/Big Ten. F*** you Big Ten, F*** YOU.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
If I don't get ahold of tickets to Yost I may give the streaming a try.
February 26th, 2018 at 8:41 AM ^
Living in Brittany, make it much more difficult to stream UM events.
Don't know how to private email on MGoBlog, so I'll post a reply here.
Thanks in advance,
February 27th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
There is a streaming option, for a subscription. If you don't care for that, or think it is too much, you can choose to excersize your consumer right to not purchase, and even cancel your other subscriptions that you feel contribute to the problem.
Regardless of how justified you think you are, what you are intending to do would be a criminal act. > 99% chance that you will get away with it, if you choose to rationalize your behavior against possible consequences. Don't think that the day won't come where the hammer won't come down on this, all the people that got busted for pirated music at one point thought that too.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
West: Sioux Falls, S.D.
4. Minnesota State vs. 13. North Dakota
5. Denver vs. 11. Michigan
February 25th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
That would be awful for M.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:45 AM ^
and a 6 go against an 11?
February 25th, 2018 at 11:52 AM ^
yeah, should be 6 v 11
February 25th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
finish my edit.
Essentially, the NCAA article (I finally read through it) says they try to avoid regional first round matchups of conference teams. In this case, it tries to avoid an opening round MICHIGAN-ohio state game. That's why it has the screwy-looking brackets that don't otherwise make sense.
Keep in mind, though, that the current rankings will change as we get through the rest of the season and conference tournaments, making those pairings obsolete.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
Unless there is a great number of upsets affecting the pairswise, this could be our regional — in The middle of nowhere. And it’s probably the Midwest regional site; Thanks NCAA .
February 25th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
The Midwest regional is in Allentown, Pennsylvania. No joke.
The NCAA is inventing some new geography there. But then again, nobody --- outside of Sioux Falls in 2018 and Fargo in 2019 --- west of the Appalachians wanted to bid.
The NCAA hockey's regional model is definitely broken right now. With the current Pairwise rankings, we'd have:
(1) 2 #4 seeds getting to play in home regionals that they are hosting (Pairwise #13 PSU in Allentown and Pariwise #14 North Dakota in Sioux Falls).
(2) 3 of the regionals being east of the Appalachians in an environment where 5 of the top 6 Pairwise teams (everyone x Cornell) and 8 of the top 10 Pairwise teams are from the West.
February 25th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
My objections to the regional system are well documented. Perhaps I'll post another rant about it this year. This year is a bad look even by the horrible standards already in place.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
BTN and Fox are so dumb. Go on the ESPN app at anytime and a million SEC games are up on every random sport with no extra cost.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
Said this after the game last night. With softball tournaments at home, season ticket holders got first crack at 8 am I think. You can go to the ticket office on S. State St. at 830 and deal with a real person and not get in a computer “queue” and leave with tickets in hand.
February 25th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
I can't be at the ticket office tomorrow morning so I'll get queued up online as early as possible tomorrow.
Someone posted yesterday that the students are on spring break next weekend. If true, shouldn't that make it a bit easier to find tickets?
February 26th, 2018 at 9:09 AM ^
At 8:30 this morning, there was nothing available behind the benches, spotty availability behind the boxes, and lots available on the ends. Hopefully Yost will be rocking. It'll be my family's first time back for playoff hockey since the series against ND in 97/98.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
Seems odd to me.
#1 Notre Dame, gets a bye... but then has to play #2 OSU if they win?
It seems as though, the winner of the #3 Michigan vs. #6 bracket should play #1 Notre Dame.
And the other side of the bracket would have:
#2 OSU vs. #7 MSU play the winner of
#4 PSU vs. #5 Minnesota
Sure you get a bye if you're number one, but then you likely have to play the number #2 team for a single elimination game....
Is is just me or does it seem like the #3 vs #6 and #2 vs. #7 brackets should be flipped?
http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/022418aab.html
February 25th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
ND will play the winner of the lowest seed out of the first round, so probably Penn State. If we win the series against Wisconsin, we'll have a single elimination game at OSU.
February 25th, 2018 at 11:26 AM ^
I didn't read the text below and just looked at the graphic which seemd to imply something different.
February 25th, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
If FYS beats tOSU and we take care of business with Bucky, then FYS goes to South Bend and we host the winner of the PSU Gopher series. Otherwise off to Columbus.
Do we have to root for FYS?
February 25th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
Coach Mel is competing with Coach B for the best late season surge. It is a great time to be a Michigan fan!
February 25th, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
As I really did not have much in terms of expectations for the team this year. I figured there would be improvment, but the recruting classes for the next few years look really impressive and Coach Mel is the man! Hope this is just the start of some great years to come for the hockey program!
February 25th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
(Ice) Dancing! See what I did there in the spirit of the Winter Olympics?
Great play down the stretch!!
GO BLUE!!
February 25th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
What is the fucking point in having a network dedicated to broadcasting a conferences sporting events when they don’t fucking broadcast them. Delaney can stick that big ten + right up his ass. These games should be staggered so that when you turn on the Big Ten network this weekend there is a live game of hockey or basketball on the air.
February 25th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
It's crazy that Michigan went from...whatever last year was to being a near-lock for an at-large tourney bid in a year.
February 25th, 2018 at 2:17 PM ^
Coach Mel Pearson! He might be the best college hockey coach out there, and although I loved Red, he was just out of touch with the modern game. Mel also is not just a amazing coach, but also a great recruiter. I really thought it would take 2 or 3 years, but was almost certain that he would make us a national power again. Its hard to imagine another team with the talent some of the late 90's teams had in terms of NHL talent, but I really could see it happening again in the next few years. Unfortunately, real talent now is often one and done in hockey now as well, so will be interesting.
February 25th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
For hockey and basketball!
February 25th, 2018 at 4:35 PM ^
Based on everything I've seen, we won't catch OSU, but have a shot at the #7 overall (2 seed) if everything breaks right. Realistically, we're looking at a 3, and unless we get swept by UW and other weird things happen I don't think we can drop below that, let alone fall out of the tournament.
Root for MSU to beat OSU and Penn State to win in 3 next weekend, I think. If nothing else, it would be nice to host a semifinal instead of having to go to Columbus for that game.