NCAA 1st Round - Day 1

Who showed up to play Holy Cross tonight? I think it was the small fries that play between periods at the Gopher games. If it is true about what the coaching staff said, that the team had put the WCHA playoffs behind them, then you sure would not know it tonight? The Gophers lost 4-3 in overtime to Holy Cross. Holy Cross played well and the Gophers did not. No more to say. The #1 rated team in the country gets shot out of the sky and is the first #1 seed in NCAA history to lose to the 4th seed. Of course it is the Gophers this happens too.


North Dakota looks like the team to beat. They were very strong riding on goals from TJ Oshie and Drew Stafford (left) tonight. They stomped Michigan handing them a large plate of loss with a side dish of ass whooping. 5-1 was the final score from Grand Forks tonight. Holy Cross will meet NoDak tomorrow (well, tonight now) night but I think the anomoly that is Holy Cross will meet their doom. NoDak is just too good.

Elsewhere tonight more serious spankings were handed out by the two Boston teams in the tourney. BC clobbered Miami-Ohio 5-0 (why were they in the top 3 in the nation for so long?) and BU knocked down, stepped on and then wiped the ice with Nebraska-Omaha (bottom left) with a final score of 9-2.

BC and BU will meet tomorrow night at 5pm for the final of the Northeast Regional.

Other games tomorrow are the start of the Midwest and East Regionals. Wisconsin plays Bemidi State (1:30pm), Cornell goes up against CC (4:30pm), Harvard plays Maine (2pm) and New Hampshire plays Michigan State (11am).

I am not going to win my work pool...damn.