Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pond has melted by now (the modern indoor ice rink has long since replaced it), but as Ivy League hockey nears the 100th anniversary of the first Brown-Harvard ice duel, what was then a friendly game of ice polo has emerged as one of the most successful NCAA programs in the Ivies...
Take Cornell, for example. The Big Red won the Ivy title from 1966 to 1973. During that span, the Ithacans appeared in the NCAA Tournament six times, capturing the national title in 1967 (a 4-1 win over Boston University) and in 1970 (a 6-4 victory over Clarkson...
Harvard is now the example many league coaches point to when talking about Ivy League hockey. The Crimson has earned a reputation as one of the best teams in college hockey during the 1980s. Harvard, which has won seven straight Ivy titles since 1982, has made six NCAA appearances, including three trips to the Final Four...
With only 36 teams partcipating in four established Division I hockey leagues (the ECAC, Hockey East, CCHA and WCHA) and 17 independents that now compete for one bid to the NCAA Tournament, college hockey is far from becoming a national sport...
...Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh, who took his team to this year's NCAA Championship game against eventual champion Lake Superior State and plays all the Ivy teams in ECAC competition, recalls his team's Final Four game with Minnesota this year. Marsh calls the Saints' 3-2 overtime victory "the best college hockey game I ever saw," but ESPN, the cable sports network that had the rights to televise the game, decided instead to telecast the NCAA women's basketball semifinals...