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Michigan earned the #3 overall seed in the NCAA tourney and will open against DSL's Colgate Big Red in Allentown. They leaped over Denver by a millionth of an RPI point. For real. Michigan's RPI is 0.578906 whereas Denver's is a paltry 0.578905.
How do you gain that extra millionth of a point? Score the championship-winning goal at the #1 team in the country whilst sitting on their defenseman. If Michigan gets by Colgate, they'll likely face Penn State with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line.
FWIW, Michigan finished #2 in both human polls behind Minnesota.
Whoreson of Ann Arbor, Colgate sucks enormous dick. And their nickname is the pussywillows. Angel cakes, perhaps.
The last hope for manhood in upstate NY, the Big Red, play Thursday against Denver. Might as well match up a junior high team against a Soviet penal colony, Jesus H Christ.
But now the NCAA shows its Michigan hate by setting up the bracket for a Penn State home game in the 2nd round.
That'd be like making Penn State come to play at Little Caesars Arena.
Its going to be tough to win that one.
Well, the problems with the NCAA hockey tourney are many. First, the regionals are sparsely attended because they put them in weird places like Allentown, PA and Bridgeport, CT. Regarding Michigan's seeding and location, the likely landing spot for them before scratching out that millionth of a point Saturday night was Manchester, NH as the overall 4. That would have set up a potential matchup with Boston University in the regional final an hour away from Boston.
Here's how stupid the selections for NCAA hockey regional sites are: Of the 4 sites, Allentown is the second-most western site behind Fargo, ND. You've got essentially metro Boston (Manchester), Philly (Allentown), and the hotbed of college hockey itself, Bridgeport, CT. Then the West regional is in FARGO. That's 1,400 miles from the 2nd-most western regional in Allentown.
The Big Ten has 4 of their 7 teams in the tourney and there isn't even a regional within the traditional Big Ten footprint. It's so Eastern-centric it makes me want to puke. How can you have an EAST and Northeast region?? LOL. So exactly half the field plays in New England every year and the Big Ten is treated like flyover country with the West regional going to places like Denver and Fargo.
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