2018-2019 Season

[mdogt12]

Updated bracket from USCHO

This week’s brackets

West Regional (Fargo):
16 American International vs. 1 St. Cloud State
11 Western Michigan vs. 5 Minnesota State

Midwest Regional (Allentown):
15 Bowling Green vs. 3 Minnesota Duluth
12 Clarkson vs. 7 Ohio State

East Regional (Providence):
13 Cornell vs. 4 Denver
9 Providence vs. 6 Quinnipiac

Northeast Regional (Manchester):
14 Harvard vs. 2 Massachusetts
10 Northeastern vs. 8 Arizona State

[m626t]

nice seeing the Yellow Jackets in there!

[mdogt12]

nice seeing the Yellow Jackets in there!

Just hope they can win their conference tournament because only way they will get in.

[jjmc85]

Conference tournaments start this weekend for 4 pf the 6 conferences. Outside of Hockey East I’m rooting for upsets. Would be good if the teams UMass is competing with for a number 1 seed got a couple of losses to not great competition and also would be nice to get a first round opponent in the NCAAs who is just happy to be there.

[Old Cage]

BC lost last night in their last game, so we still don't know who we will play next weekend. UNH remains one point behind BC with their last game tonight.

[69MG]

Nice story about Vatrano with mentions of the other former UMass players now in the NHL. Makes me wonder if this would have been year 2 of chasing a national championship if Vatrano and Montour had stayed for 3 or 4 years.

https://expo.masslive.com/sports/g66l-2 ... -afar.html

[Dickie Dunn]

Conference tournaments start this weekend for 4 pf the 6 conferences. Outside of Hockey East I’m rooting for upsets. Would be good if the teams UMass is competing with for a number 1 seed got a couple of losses to not great competition and also would be nice to get a first round opponent in the NCAAs who is just happy to be there.

On the flip side, do you want to play a potential No. 15 overall seed that is hot rolling into the tournament?

First-world hockey problems, for sure.

[jjmc85]

Let me see who it is first and I’ll get back to you.

[mdogt12]

Ranked #3 this week. 1 point behind Minnesota State

[78]

If the NCAA's started tomorrow, USCHO says we would be hosting Notre Dame in Manchester. That would be interesting.
https://www.uscho.com/2019/03/12/bracke ... ta-duluth/

[MJatUM]

I like how they go out of their way to place 2 and 3 seeds in the closest geographic location, yet pay no bother to the fact that Providence is closer to Amherst than Manchester.

[McKinney]

^ +1 Providence would be closer for the school, closer for local fans, and closer for most of our alumni base. But that's cool.

First-world problems I guess.

[Sheck]

I imagine they look at Providence and Manchester as negligible distance wise for UMass. They want PC and Quinnipiac in the Providence pod.

[McKinney]

^ Probably right. Unfortunate no game in Worcester this year. I think we'd sell that SOB out.

[MJatUM]

I imagine they look at Providence and Manchester as negligible distance wise for UMass. They want PC and Quinnipiac in the Providence pod.

But PC isn't the host school (Brown is) therefore you'd be significantly rewarding a lower seeded team..