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#3 Boston College scored first on #5 UMass-Lowell with seven minutes remaining in the first, and UMass-Lowell came back five minutes later to tie it up, 1-1.  The two teams played to a stalemate from that point until the end of the second, when BC scored with two minutes left in the second, but again…

In the five games after the Union win yesterday, the higher ranked team won them all, except for North Dakota’s upset of Ferris State. Second note:  I did not count an entry in our pool that I didn’t realize I had received.  We actually have a total of forty entrants in the pool this year,…

Union College scored once in the first, and once in the second to take a 2-0 lead into the third period against #10 Providence.  Providence had been near the goal all game long, and with five minutes remaining, they scored to make it a 2-1 game.  Yet only a minute later, Union scored a back-breaker…

The final two games in yesterday’s NCAA Tournament ended in two upset wins. #13 North Dakota  Slips By #4 Wisconsin North Dakota scored early, five minutes into the first, to take a 1-0 lead, and Wisconsin came back to tie it up, and the first ended 1-1.  In the second, North Dakota again took the…

#6 Ferris State scored  a power play goal midway through the first period in opening round action in Cincinnati, and that was all it took as they beat #12 Colgate 1-0.  Ferris State advanced to play tomorrow, Saturday the 29th at 3:30pm Pacific Time on ESPNU, against the winner of tonight’s game between #4 Wisconsin and #13 North Dakota.  Today’s…

The NCAA Tournament got underway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at 11:00am Pacific Time today when #14 Vermont took on #1 Union College and Max Novak and Matt Hatch each scored two goals for Union College.  Union got on the board early with a short-handed goal, four minutes into the first.  Nine minutes later, Vermont tied it at one, but…

College Hockey Update:  Ok, first things first, and this is important — I have emailed you your 2014 NCAA bracket; please open it immediately, make your picks, and email your picks back to me in a single typed line as my picks appear here including the score of your final game: 1.Minn 2.St. Cloud 3.Ferris 4.Wisc…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend provided fourteen teams in top-twenty matchups including #1 Minnesota splitting with Michigan in the last weekend of Big Ten regular season play, edging Michigan up to #12, and a very big one as Notre Dame edged up to #11 after taking two of three from Boston College in Hockey East tournament play,…

College Hockey Update:  With no top-twenty matchups last weekend, and so many teams idle with byes in the first round of conference tournament play, I suppose the big news would be that out of the eight teams that played regular season games, three ranked teams suffered losses:  North Dakota edged down in the rankings to…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend another ten teams met in eight top-twenty matchup games with some big-impact results, including Notre Dame’s win at Boston College, which knocked BC down to #2, and vaulted Notre Dame up a few notches to the #11 spot.  Elsewhere, Union beat Yale, and Union hung on to the #3 ranking (Union went on…