Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most exciting nights of college hockey in recent memory, the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) hockey tournament began last night. As a result of two upsets and two near-upsets, Harvard drew Boston University as a semifinal opponent on Friday night and Brown is scheduled to face-off against Ivy rival Cornell...
Harvard, sporting an unimpressive 12-8-3 league record, would be a little more than a practice session for the Wildcats if it weren't for one thing, the much-publicized ECAC curse that hangs over the UNH hockey program...
That curse has resulted in six losses in the last seven ECAC quarterfinal contests and is seemingly all that Harvard has going for it tonight. It goes a long way toward explaining why Petro last week expressed the opinion that, given the choice of playing UNH, Boston University, Cornell, Clarkson or Brown, his teammates would most like to play the Wildcats...
...they weren't going too fast. The Harvard Band will be there, as will a chartered busload of Pi Eta members and several cases of beer, but the response hasn't been over-whelming. Harvard fans aren't used to having to go further than Watson for the ECAC quarterfinal...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY--BOSTON COLLEGE: This has been a hard-fought and bitter rivalry throughout the season, and the eighth ranked Eagles feel they have a good shot at knocking off the top-seeded Terriers. But the Terrier bite is as bad as its bark, and B.U. rarely loses ECAC playoff games...