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After weeks of conjecture, the Harvard men’s hockey team was officially slotted as a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament yesterday and assigned to the Northeast Regional in Amherst, Mass., where the Crimson will face New Hampshire, the runner-up in Hockey East’s post-season tournament, next Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The following day, the winner will skate against either Denver, the defending national champion, or Bemidji State, which qualified after capturing College Hockey America’s conference title...
...forecast a Harvard trip to Amherst against UNH, but had also projected Boston College and Mercyhurst as the two teams most likely to accompany them to the Mullins Center. But according to Wayne Dean, the tournament committee chair, Denver was seen as more deserving of the second overall seed than Colorado College—No. 2 in the PWR—a subjective swap that skewed the predictions slightly...
Colgate received an at-large bid to the tournament as well, bumping the number of ECAC invitees to three for the first time since 1998. ECAC champion and automatic bid recipient Cornell was chosen as the No. 2 seed in the Minneapolis regional and will face Ohio State in the first round. The winner of the Big Red-Buckeyes matchup draws the victor of Minnesota and Maine’s contest. Fourth-seed Colgate travels to Grand Rapids, where the Raiders are paired with Colorado College, with the winner slated to take on Wisconsin or Michigan in the regional final...
...guess the funniest thing is Jay Wright, the coach of [No. 5 seed Villanova],” Frank says. “He wanted Mustafa so badly that he let us practice in Villanova’s gym a couple of times. He knew all the players on our team by name. He came up to me and congratulated me for getting into Harvard. When I’d never seen him before. That’s how badly they wanted Mustafa...
...Princeton’s 43-41 upset win over no. 4 UCLA in 1996? Hopefully you had the under on that one, and hopefully BC is taking notice The Eagles won their first 20 games but finished 4-4, and are paired against Penn, another dangerous no. 13 seed from the Ivies. In December, BC needed double overtime to edge a Yale squad that finished...