NCAA Hockey Tournament 2010: Frozen Four 2010 Bracket, Schedule

How did UVM get a bid over UMaine.  UMaine was 2-0-1 vs. UVM and made it to the finals of the Hockey East tourney.  UMaine had a better conference and overall record.  Selection of UVM is a joke.

As a Vermonter and a Cats fan, I too wonder why Maine didn't make it into the tournament. That overtime game and the gutsey play of the Black Bears to come back time after time to tie the game should have gotten them in.  One of the best games I have ever seen!

Two WCHA teams in the same region - as usual, don't want take a chance of an all WCHA final four do we !

no Umaine.......wowwwwwww

Maine got screwed... easily one of the best teams in the country

Agreed, Maine is certainly one of the best teams in the country

WOW, UVM in over BU and Maine!!! That just doesn't sound right at all, UVM was ranked 8th in Hockey East, BU and Maine tied for 3rd!!!! DUMB!

I totally agree.  However, Go Cats Go!

The Fighting Sioux are going to win it all!!!!!!!  Go SIOUX!

Jealous much? Too bad Vermont's gonna work this, go cats go!

Vermont was the lowest ranked team in the NCAA's 62 yr history (8th in Hockey east 9-11-7) (pathetic by the way) to have been selected for tourny. The fact that they had a good non-confence record should NEVER trump overall record, conf. record, and head-to-head especially in the Hockey East(common sense). Selection committee actually gave Vermont credit for beating Alabama-Huntsville and Yale because they both are in NCAA tourney. Ala-Hunt got in because they won their four team conf. tourny (WOW! tough road that was) and finished the season with a whopping overall record of 12-17-2. As far as Yale, umm when's the last time an Ivy league (ECAC) team won a title? 20 yrs. Nuff said about Yale.  The only quality wins Vermont had were against Denver(once) and  BC (twice outta 4 tries and one of the losses to BC was 7-1 BTW).  But they NEVER beat Maine this year(0-2-1). Maine finished tied for third in Hockey east (13-12-2). Maine also was in the hockey east final where they were narrowly defeated by Boston college 7-6 in O.T.  The same Boston college team that blanked the kittens er, I mean Vermont 3-0 in the semi's.  You could easily say that even Michigan State, Ferris state, Minnesota-Duluth, North Dakota, Colorado College, BU, Mas-Lowell were much more deserved (just to name a few).  I move that this committee be fired for "head in rectum" syndrome.  Could someone also tell them that the criteria for selecting teams goes 1. Overall record 2. Conference record 3. Head-to-head 4. non-conference record. Since they completely ignored it or just plain don't have a clue. I guess if your Vermont you only need one of these four criteria and it being the least of the four to get you in. The only good that came from this is that thanks to Wisconsin the Catamounts are sent packing right back to where they should have been all along.

Well Vermont, there goes another "quality" win opponent (Denver) out in first round against first timers RIT.  Hilarious!  NCAA selection committee, you are looking worse every day.  Oh yeah, and Alabama-huntsville, yup, as expected, they are getting worked by Miami-OH.  How bout we just go to a 64 team tourny and eliminate this so called committee all together?? sound good? Well, one can dream.

Only problem with that is there are only 58 teams in Div 1, and just for some trivia, all but two ... TWO ... 'qualify' for their respective league playoffs.  I would vote for a system where no teams with worse than .500 conference records qualify for their tourneys.  That would get rid of the ice raff.  Someone might want to search around and actually figure out who the current members of the selection committee are.  I assume it's all coaches.  As usual, some hot goalies reek (sp?) havoc on the brackets.