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...Buckeyes are the region’s No. 2 seed and enter Albany with a six-game winning streak. After going 26-15-0 and finishing the regular season in fourth place in the CCHA, Ohio State advanced to the CCHA championship by defeating Notre Dame and Miami in overtime. Next the Buckeyes beat Michigan 4-2 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, the Wolverines’ backyard...
Where the Badgers have excellent team defense, the Buckeyes have overall consistency. Their netminder, Mike Betz, posted solid but unspectacular numbers throughout the season. Their team defense—which allows 2.5 goals per game—and penalty kill are highly rated, but not tops in the CCHA. Where Ohio State excels, according to Colgate coach Stan Moore, is along in their offensive productions—they have five players with 30 or more points—and along their forward lines...
...additional caveat, and this is the condition under which Harvard gained entrance to the Tournament both this year and in 2002, is that the winners of the six college hockey conferences—Atlantic Hockey, the CHA, the CCHA, the ECAC, Hockey East and the WCHA—are given automatic-bids into the NCAA. This year the auto-bid aided Harvard (ECAC), Niagara (CHA) and Holy Cross (Atlantic Hockey). All three teams would not have qualified for the tournament based on their Pairwise rankings...
...Tournament by Boston University—a squad that struggled all year. And as a reward for its recent struggles, BC draws Niagara, the CHA champion. With all due respect to Niagara, it comes from a bottom-tier conference. College hockey is divided up into the sure-things (the CCHA, Hockey East and the WCHA), the maybes (ECAC) and the also-rans (Atlantic Hockey...
...alas, those who foretold an ECAC in which those carmine cousins nosed one another for the title each year—the same way Michigan and Michigan State have engaged in a two-way struggle for CCHA hegemony for most of the last two decades—are now sitting down to a happy helping of crow...