WCHA First Round Playoffs

Sunday brings the final games of the WCHA first round. North Dakota finds its legs and beats an up and coming Mankato team 3-0 to advance to the Final Five.

UMD and DU are also playing and as of this post UMD is crawling all over DU with a score of 4-1. Denver is in deep trouble and looks like they may not make the Final Five and will also lose a bid for the NCAA's. USCHO already shows DU out of the NCAA's and this game is not even over yet. That cannot be good. Click here to see the new bracket as of now.

St Cloud and CC are also playing and probably are in the 3rd period by now. I have no score at this time. I am looking though!

Outside of the WCHA, Bemidji State comes up with a huge game over Niagra (4-2) to win the CHA tournament for the second year in a row. Minnesota will play (at this point) the Bemidji Beavers in the first round of the NCAA tourney. With this win the Beavers bounced Niagra out of the NCAA's. I think the headline should read "Niagra Falls to Beavers". Get it? Falls? Niagra Falls? Oh forget it...there is no humor in blogging.

Found the SCSU and CC game. SCSU just scored at 6:50 in the third to go up 2-1! Go SCSU! Yahoo Sports Radio is where I am listening to this. The Internet is the greatest.

SCSU wins 3-1 at CC! SCSU will play UMD in the Play-In game on Thursday 3/16 at the XCEL Energy Center. UMD beat Denver tonight 5-2. I am heading to the Thursday game and what a battle it will be.

Final Five:

Play-In Game (3/16 @ 7:30 pm): SCSU and UMD

Friday (3/17 @ 2:30 pm): Wisconsin and NoDak

Friday (3/17 @ 7:30 pm): Minnesota and SCSU/UMD

Go Gophers!!