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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Brutus Buckeye on October 12, 2019, 10:15:46 PM
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https://twitter.com/OhioStateMHKY/status/1183168761211342849?s=20
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Ice Hockey
Rankings heading into Big Ten play...
https://www.uscho.com/rankings/
5 Notre Dame
7 Wisconsin
12 Penn State
13 Ohio State
ORV: 23 Michigan, 26 Minnesota
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Ice Hockey
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s hockey team opened Big Ten play with a 3-2 win over Michigan Friday in Value City Arena. The Buckeyes were down 1-0 after the first and 2-1 after the second, but scored twice in the first four minutes of the third to take the lead and then shut down the Wolverines the rest of the way.
The No. 13 Buckeyes improve to 5-1-1 on the year, while Michigan drops to 3-3-1. The squads will close the weekend series at 5 p.m. Saturday in Columbus.
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Ice Hockey
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Freshman Tate Singleton’s goal with less than two minutes left in regulation gave the Ohio State men’s hockey team a 2-1 win and series sweep of Michigan Saturday in Value City Arena. Michigan had tied the game at 16:02 of the third, but Grant Gabriele set up the play that led to Singleton’s gamewinner less than three minutes later.
The No. 13 Buckeyes, on a four-game winning streak, are 6-1-1 on the year, with a 2-0-0-0 Big Ten record. Michigan falls to 3-4-1 (0-2-0-0 B1G), including a 3-2 loss Friday to Ohio State.
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MSU scored the final 3 for a come from behind 4-3 win at Yost
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Finished the sweep.
The Mel Pearson thing does not appear to be going well in Ann Arbor. Could he be out after Year 3?
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I think we've always had a separate hockey thread. Even as the conference looks back down again this year
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Followed the UM sweep by going 1-0-1 against #3 ND.
4-1-1 over the past three weekends against PSU, UM, ND
Nice to actually have a real coach for the first time in 15 years
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I'm not sure this one warrants its own thread anymore. Participation has been minimal for the past five years or so.
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MSU continues to play well, sweeping Wisconsin at home, tied for 2nd in the Big Ten.
Seems like Danton Cole is finally getting the ship right, after back to back disastrous coaching hires.
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Heading into Christmas break...
NCAA Conference Standings: https://www.uscho.com/standings/division-i-men/
USCHO Rankings: https://www.uscho.com/rankings/
6 Ohio State
8 Penn State
15 Notre Dame
18 Michigan State
ORV: none
Wallowing in ineptitude: Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Wolverines.
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Minnesota won the Mariucci Classic, Michigan Tech the Great Lakes Invitational.
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Finished off the basketball/hockey sweep of the Badgers to move into 1st in the Big Ten. Nice to have an actual coach again.
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Apparently Michigan is finding its offense, which looked pretty bad in the few games I saw earlier in the year. It's probably too late to make the tournament, but they have risen substantially in the RPI / Pairwise rankings in the past few weeks.
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The win last night also pushed MSU ahead of New Hampshire, into the final at large spot, assuming the AHC has the only auto-bid from outside the top 16.
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I really thought Granato was going to fix UW hockey. The recruiting is fine. Time to start thinking about leadership.
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OSU takes game 2 on the road to split.
OSU wins the season series 3-1
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The good news is that the Big Ten moved the entire tournament onto campuses. The bad news means it is spread out over 3 weekends, and yet the semifinals and championship are still single elimination games.
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How is this still a "rule" in 2020?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/ny-david-ayres-emergency-backup-goalie-zamboni-win-20200223-3g2xc6vkbnhyjlor7krl3fmk5a-story.html%3foutputType=amp
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The new conference will be called... the CCHA.
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This is the final weekend of the regular season.
Penn St sits atop The ladder with a four point cushion, but they are idle this week.
Ohio State and Minnesota are tied for second. OSU has to host Wisconsin, while the Gophers get to host the Wolverines.
Notre Dame is six points back, and they host the Spartans.
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Much needed road win at Notre Dame to snap this funk
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Penn St has clinched at least a share. Minnesota can still match them with a win over the Wolverines. OSU and ND are eliminated from contention.
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Yeesh, save some for the rest of the series.
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Still makes no sense why the semis aren't a best of three of they are going to spread it out over three weekends.
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Amazing, much like 3 years ago, Michigan can make the tournament even with just a win this weekend despite it's bad first half of the season due to its strong run except for the Notre Dame games late, which I had thought were going to end their chances. We'll see....
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Slightly OT, but how does the upcoming WCHA-CCHA split effect the Big Ten schools with women's teams? Do they just change the W to a C and call it a day? Or will the CCHA schools use it as an excuse to ditch the satellite members?
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So what happens with the Alaska twins and Huntsville? Rebuild the WCHA with Arizona St and two other random teams from wherever? Or stick a fork in them?
For those unaware all of the other teams are leaving the WCHA in order to bring back the CCHA.
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UAA, UAF, and UAH are probably screwed. That said, I don't blame the WCHA (and future CCHA) schools for basically screwing them over. Of course, the hopeful outcome is that there will be new D1 teams (Saint Thomas (MN) is moving up from D3 because they were too dominant in their conference, and Oakland got NHL funding to investigate starting their own program, which I think they would do well), and the CCHA would certainly add those schools. Supposedly they could also take back Miami OH and Western Michigan, which haven't been very successful in the NCHC.
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Long Island University is adding men's hockey.... Supposedly Illinois was finally about to do so before the pandemic.
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What conference is Lawn Guyland Univahsity going to be in?
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Apparently they're not putting much funding into it so don't be surprised if it doesn't end well: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/05/01_For-LIU,-Will-This-Really.php (https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/05/01_For-LIU,-Will-This-Really.php), even though it will be the closest program to NYC and only one on Long Island in D1.... As the article mentions, I think if Navy finally goes D1, they could be decent, considering Air Force is usually okay (Army was even okay last year) and they'd be the only program in the MD/DE/DC/VA/SEPA region.
That said, there's a group of D2 schools in the northeast that compete in D3 for some reason even though they're not eligible for the NCAA tournament there. Meanwhile, some of those schools women's programs are in D1 and compete in the same league as LIU there.... Point being, of course, that if those schools joined D1, they could form a new league, which the Northeast kind of needs anyway since the other leagues are basically full.
That said, there are some rumors that there could be some realignment in the northeastern leagues, especially if Hockey East were to split.
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I thought there was no D2 for hockey anymore?
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There isn't. The NCAA D2 schools that play hockey can either compete in D1 or D3 for that sport. If they choose the latter, they are ineligible for the postseason. There is a group of such schools in the NE that compete in D3 for men's hockey and D1 for women's hockey. That is what Michifan87 was referencing.
So for men's Ice Hockey, the Northeast 10 is made of entirely of NCAA D2 schools that could move up from D3 to D1 in Ice Hockey, and become eligible for the postseason.
https://www.northeast10.org/sports/mice/2019-20/standings (https://www.northeast10.org/sports/mice/2019-20/standings)
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Huntsville is out. No more ice hockey
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Apparently UAH has raised enough money to play next season and figure out a long-term plan.... Realistically, if the CCHA doesn't want them then nobody else will, though Arizona State has proven that independents can be successful (of course, they have the funding to be a successful program).
Their best hope (albeit unlikely) hope is for the Alaska programs to stay alive and for some other programs outside of the Northeast/Midwest to startup to create a new league (though maybe Long Island could be part of it if they don't get in one of the Northeastern leagues and/or if Air Force were to want to leave the league they're in).
Otherwise, the biggest growth opportunity for college hockey is with Illinois (and any other BigTen school that wants to start a program) and other Midwest schools starting new programs that would interest the CCHA (eg. Oakland - no update with them that I could find since their NHL study).
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On paper you could have a decent western conference with Arizona St, the Alaska twins, and the Colorado triplets.
But I've been told that that's krazytawk.
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ASU hockey to play entire season on the road vs B1G hockey teams. Kind of a weird situation being independent and waiting for our new arena to be built but ultimately this works out well all things considered.
https://thesundevils.com/news/2020/10/6/mens-ice-hockey-asu-big-ten-agree-to-schedule-arrangement-for-2020-21.aspx (https://thesundevils.com/news/2020/10/6/mens-ice-hockey-asu-big-ten-agree-to-schedule-arrangement-for-2020-21.aspx)
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Be like ND and play different sports in different conferences
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It would be funny if the Devils won a Big Ten Title, but it didn't count.
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not as funny as you think now
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Will Arizona State hockey win a Big Ten title before Nebraska football?
People are talking
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now that's funny
people are laughing
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not as funny as you think now
I don't see why not. It isn't as though it would actually have any effect on the standings. Maybe they might knock someone off of the bubble, but whatever.
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The new season is officially underway, starting with a Badger upset of the Domers on friday.