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#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…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend gave us seven of the top twenty teams playing in six top-twenty matchup games, and the big, big news here would have to be that Boston College suffered a tie — they didn’t win both games over the weekend, can you believe it?  Let’s put this in perspective — you remember…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend was another that provided five top-fifteen matchups, and two teams made the best of it as Boston College swept Vermont (BC held onto the #1 ranking, and Vermont was bumped out of the top fifteen to #16), and Minnesota swept Michigan, with Minnesota retaining the #2 ranking, and Michigan retaining…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend ten of the top fifteen teams were involved in top-fifteen matchups (by last week’s rankings), and perhaps none was more eventful than Minnesota’s disastrous two-loss trip to Wisconsin; Minnesota dropped down to #2, and the sweep propelled Wisconsin up four pegs to #8.  Boston College beat Merrimack, helping to lift BC to…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend showcased four top-fifteen matchups, and the higher ranked team won in every case, except one — and that would be when Wisconsin travelled to Michigan for two games, and Michigan came out of it with a tie and a win, elevating Michigan a couple of spots to the #10 ranking,…