Frozen Four

With all the pub the Men's Basketball Tournament gets, I wonder why hockey doesn't get the same love? Probably for the most part it is because the game isn't really a national game. The majority of the teams are in the northeast (the southern most team is Alabama Huntsville and of course the westernmost teams are the 3 teams in Colorado). I count approximately 55 - 60 teams that play Division I Hockey. The sixteen teams are taken by a method that probably could make more sense. I mean Wisconsin got in with a losing record this year? The six division winners all receive an automatic big and then an additional 8 at large bids go out. Being from a Michigan St family we hit the road and went down to CSprings to see State play Colorado College. Obviously a home game for CC yet Michigan St came out and beat them. Michigan St then got to play Notre Dame on Saturday and the team looked like they had run out of emotional gas. Anyway April 10 and 12 Michigan and Notre Dame play to face the winner of North Dakota and Boston College. Should be interesting...too bad AF couldn't hold their 3rd period lead!