Big Ten Hockey thread

[ELA]

NCAA hockey was very top heavy for a long time, and had sort of expanded over the past 15ish years.  I wonder if NIL has sort of reconsolidated that power.

[SFBadger96]

True, but much less so in this century. Of all of those titles, Michigan's last was 1998, Wisconsin's only one this century was 2006, and North Dakota has two, 2000 and 2016.

Denver, on the other hand, has had five this century, allowing it to pass Michigan for the most. Denver's first five were between '58 and '69. Michigan, like in football, has mostly very old championships: 7 from '48 to '64, then two in the 90s: '96 and '98.

Michigan is the overall 1-seed this year. Odds are a Michigan/NoDak final.

[SFBadger96]

I wonder if NIL has sort of reconsolidated that power.

Good question. I would expect Minnesota and the Boston schools to benefit from that. I think I read that this was a very rare NCAA tournament that didn't include a team from the Beanpot, Boston's annual college hockey showcase between Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard (!!).

[ELA]

True, but much less so in this century. Of all of those titles, Michigan's last was 1998, Wisconsin's only one this century was 2006, and North Dakota has two, 2000 and 2016.

Denver, on the other hand, has had five this century, allowing it to pass Michigan for the most. Denver's first five were between '58 and '69. Michigan, like in football, has mostly very old championships: 7 from '48 to '64, then two in the 90s: '96 and '98.

Michigan is the overall 1-seed this year. Odds are a Michigan/NoDak final.

Yeah, that's what I mean, those traditional powers hadn't done as well lately.  But does this help them regain their foothold against the teams like Ferris State, Union, Providence, Quinnipiac, Duluth, St. Cloud State, Minnesota State, Miami(Ohio), all of whom appeared in a national title game since 2009

[SFBadger96]

Yeah, I was just looking at that. Basically, when UM-Duluth won in 2011, that marks the changing of the guard at the top, with the traditional elites capturing a smaller percentage of the titles (Boston College 2012, North Dakota 2016, and Denver 2017, 2022, 2024), and a whole bunch of smaller schools winning, including UM-D three times, Yale, Union, Providence, UMass, Quinnipiac, and Western Michigan. UM-D's win in 2011 was its first; no longer the "Gopher Rejects" that we used to yell at them in the Dane County Coliseum and the Kohl Center.

Starting with UM-D in 2011, seven schools won their first NCAA championship since 2011, and of those seven, UM-D is the only one with more than one.

[FearlessF]

what's UM-Duluth gonna spend NIL $$$ on besides hockey

michigan would have to steal money from football

[bayareabadger]

NCAA hockey was very top heavy for a long time, and had sort of expanded over the past 15ish years.  I wonder if NIL has sort of reconsolidated that power.

It’s interesting to look at because I always thought old school hockey had a somewhat pleasant diversity of champions. 

Granted, it’s now gone to kind of an extreme.

[SFBadger96]

Certainly different champions from the big revenue sports, but still very definitely an elite class, that generally comes in waves. Michigan, Denver, Minnesota, North Dakota, Boston College, Wisconsin, Boston University. These schools, each with 5 or more, have 48 of the 77 titles (and will have 49 at the end of this season).

But you do get to throw in a run from Lake Superior State in the 80s/90s, and Michigan Tech in the 60s. Maine was very good in the 90s; I don't know about now. And the Ivies jump in there from time to time, led by Ken Dryden backstopping Cornell.

[847badgerfan]

Wisconsin got robbed in that final against LSSU.