Posts About "NCAA Regionals"

VIDEO: Referee Takes Out North Dakota Goal Scorer

March 26th, 2016 College hockey is always an entertaining game to watch. Fast-paced and fluid, the kids just seem to fly up and down the ice - the stars often standing out from the crowd. With the collegiate schedule nearing the end - closing in on the NCAA’s Frozen Four - it was a game between number one seed North Dakota and second-seed Michigan that...

5 Reasons to Watch the NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament

March 25th, 2016 The NCAA men’s hockey tournament is underway, and it’s the biggest time of the year in college hockey. The event gets lost in the shuffle of the other big March tournament in the NCAA men’s basketball championship. College hockey doesn’t grab the headlines like the other sports do in March because the races to the NHL and...

Should the NCAA Move to On-Campus Regionals?

September 20th, 2015 When springtime comes, and the 2015-16 NCAA tournament kicks off, Albany, N.Y., Worcester, Mass., Cincinnati and St. Paul, Minn. will all play host as neutral sites for the national tournament. The neutral sites, all of which are NHL-sized venues, have been used by the NCAA to reduce home-ice advantage, and allow for larger crowds to...

NCAA Hockey Coaches Reject Changing Regional Format

May 12th, 2015 Back in March, NCAA men’s ice hockey committee chair Brain Faison said that he would like to see the NCAA regionals return to campus. Some saw Faison’s comments as controversial and his comments caused a bit of a stir. Right away, you could see the different factions lining up (for and against). Some even suggested that moving...

NCAA Hockey: The Neutral Site Revisited

March 31st, 2015 Must be the NCAA hockey playoffs? Once again, we’re hearing complaints about regional championships being played in half-empty arenas. Watching some of the games on television this past weekend, there were a lot of fans posing as empty seats. After seeing more regional hockey games in half-empty arenas, I think it's time to move...