| 1. | Penn State (http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/psu-m-hockey-sched.html) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2. | Ohio State (http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/osu-m-hockey-sched.html) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 |
| Michigan (http://www.mgoblue.com/schedule.aspx?path=mhockey) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 14 | |
| Wisconsin (http://www.uwbadgers.com/schedule.aspx?path=mhockey) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 23 | |
| Minnesota (http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/minn-m-hockey-sched.html) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 17 | |
| 6. | Michigan State (http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/msu-m-hockey-sched.html) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 16 |
| Notre Dame (http://www.und.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/nd-m-hockey-sched.html) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 26 |
I can't believe they still haven't just gone to the 1 seeds hosting.agree. Seems foolish, and also unfair to a 1 seed that plays a great season and has to go into the lions den with a bunch of Sioux fans at a site they are hosting. It also would guarantee a nice gate for the NCAA to have 1's hosting.
Some positive signs. I think down the stretch, MSU got a tie with UM, and split weekend series with OSU, UW and PSUAnd also earns a split with ND. Dug themselves too deep a hole, but a solid last 5ish weeks.
Where do yinz think the sweep of Minnesota put PSU in terms of an NCAA at-large? I have a feeling the Nits are square on the bubble right now.#13 in the PWR, so I think pretty squarely in now. Big Ten looking good for 5 teams.
Have to think that sweeping puts PSU in regardless of what happens at ND?I think Penn State is in as long as they don't get swept, and they might even be in if they did.
Illinois has concluded it's feasibility study on adding D1 hockey. I would be ecstatic if this happens.You can have ours if you want. Total waste of resources
http://whyillinihockey.com/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/fightingillini.com/documents/2018/3/8/hockeyreport_022718.pdf
I love college hockey and I love the new entrants and growth for the sport. But, as more programs add hockey I wonder what it does to the product? Does it get watered down? You have a limited number of states out there that sponsor the sport at a HS level. And in those states there is a very limited entry to who can even keep up with it. We have a mite level player (8 years old) in MN where ice time is more plentiful and less expensive and it cost $700, not including equipment, to go Nov - March. This doesn't include the year around business either. No youth sports are cheap these days but hockey is on a different level. The numbers get further watered down when you factor in those that go the JR or Minor League route permanently in the US and Canada (Tkachuk, Matthews).The product has gotten nearly unwatchable over the past 15 or so years. College hockey used to be a strong #3 for me. I'd watch whenever it was on, and LOVED going to games at Yost. Now, it's actually on tv, and I can't do it. It's no different to me than a random softball game being on. It's well behind baseball and women's volleyball as far as college sports I enjoy watching.
It feels like the quality and skill level has dropped off a bit in the last decade. The top lines will always carry top NHL talent like Brock Boeser, Johnny Gaudreau. But the level of play from lines 2,3, and 4 seems to have fallen off.
Going strictly on the eye test for me there is no greater drop off from collegiate to professional than the NCAA hockey to the NHL.
UM wins too. If PSU can win tonight, Big Ten will have half of the Elite 8. Hell of a turnaround from being a one bid league a couple years ago.So true. But as first impressions go, that one will take longer than 2017-2018 to shake from the national dialogue. The vitriol is real and probably deserved. We are close to the only big universities in the country in college hockey. Which always made us outsiders. But at least we used to integrate and play nice. No one needs me to recount the story but by consolidating as a Big Ten conference (which I supported) we kind of showed the middle finger to the rest of the country by forcing their realignment.