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...team’s fourth-consecutive win, and the Crimson’s first win over Minnesota since the 2003 NCAA semifinals. Harvard had not beaten a team from the WCHA??the conference that has turned out every NCAA women’s hockey champion—since a 4-0 win over Minnesota-Duluth three years...
...Frozen Four will feature the same four programs that competed for the WCHA??s postseason conference crown—Denver, Colorado College, North Dakota, and Minnesota—marking the first time in NCAA tournament history that one league has held a monopoly on the final quartet...
...guess they have great records outside their league,” he added. “But I think the reason behind some of that is that a lot of teams in that conference—say, the WCHA??they play a lot of their outside-of-conference games at home. They’re not going to play an away game at Cornell, but they will play some of the lesser teams at home...I think that there probably has to be a better weight on playing home games and away games...
...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...
...system, with only 32 allowed games, the conference had only 10 slots open for non-conference games, since each team has to play each other twice for conference play. By contrast, Hockey East—home of NCAA Champion Boston College—has only nine teams and the WCHA??home of 2001 runner-up and 2000 NCAA champ North Dakota—has 10. This means that teams in the other conference can schedule more games against the elite from around the country, bolstering not only their experience, but games the championship committee can hang their...
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