Comments on: Loss to Denver — Can UND still get a #1 NCAA seed? http://blog.siouxsports.com/2008/03/21/loss-to-denver-can-und-still-get-a-1-ncaa-seed/ UND fans discuss the Fighting Sioux Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jimdahl http://blog.siouxsports.com/2008/03/21/loss-to-denver-can-und-still-get-a-1-ncaa-seed/comment-page-1/#comment-146 jimdahl Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:10:34 +0000 http://blog.siouxsports.com/2008/03/21/loss-to-denver-can-und-still-get-a-1-ncaa-seed/#comment-146 Well, Minnesota won and things are going just <a href="http://siouxsports.com/hockey/rankings/pwr/" rel="nofollow">as predicted</a>, given that. Frankly, if you consider tonight's game's outcome as inevitable (or at least unmodified by the UND-Denver game) and your goal is the best seed for UND, the Sioux are much better off having lost to Denver so they get the head-to-head with CC. A win vs. Denver but subsequent head-to-head with Minnesota wouldn't have provided nearly the same PWR advancement opportunity as a loss to DU and subsequent game vs. CC. Well, Minnesota won and things are going just as predicted, given that.

Frankly, if you consider tonight’s game’s outcome as inevitable (or at least unmodified by the UND-Denver game) and your goal is the best seed for UND, the Sioux are much better off having lost to Denver so they get the head-to-head with CC. A win vs. Denver but subsequent head-to-head with Minnesota wouldn’t have provided nearly the same PWR advancement opportunity as a loss to DU and subsequent game vs. CC.

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