NCRHA National Championships Round Robin Schedule Posted

[NCRHA]

The Round Robin schedule is posted for all divisions.

Go to: http://ncrha.org/schedule.php?&event_id=796&playoff_id=149&area=schedule for Division I.

Then use the pulldown that says single elimination (or it may get modified to say round robin) for the other divisions. The lone game on the bottom is the championship game for each division.

Just to be clear, below are the championship game times:

Division I - Sunday, April 13th - 2:00pm
Division II - Sunday, April 13th - 12:30pm
Division III - Monday, April 14th - 12:00pm
B Division - Monday, April 14th - 1:15pm

The single elimination brackets will be posted by the end of the week.

[Rzorbck]

It appears from the schedule that all games are at Tour. How can you tell which are at Tour and which are at Colorado Sports Center?

[MBurke]

It appears from the schedule that all games are at Tour. How can you tell which are at Tour and which are at Colorado Sports Center?

They'll be listed as 'rink 2'.

[InlineMBA]

When I cut and pasted all 4 division schedules to a spreadsheet, then sorted them by day and time, it appears that most games will be played at the Tour Arena because there are two rinks there.

Just a layman's observation. I'm not sure I'm right though.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[missionhockey33]

how many rinks are at the Tour inline rink?

[Rzorbck]

There is just one rink at Tour so I guess any "Rink 2" games on the schedule are at CSC according to Mike. I didn't see any Rink 2 games on the schedule though, which prompted my question. I guess we can expect an update to the schedule, or am I missing something?

[Jtslick89]

If you look at your team schedule (regular season), you will see that your nationals games are listed and for us it says Monument, CO for the games against Elon and Sam Houston and Colorado Springs, CO for the game against Neumann. I take this as the rink they will be played at. They haven't been changed to "rink 2" yet but just look under your schedule and you will find out the Monument, CO games are the non-tour arena games.

[InlineMBA]

See? I was wrong - I thought the TOUR Arena had 2 rinks.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[InlineMBA]

If you look at your team schedule (regular season), you will see that your nationals games are listed and for us it says Monument, CO for the games against Elon and Sam Houston and Colorado Springs, CO for the game against Neumann. I take this as the rink they will be played at. They haven't been changed to "rink 2" yet but just look under your schedule and you will find out the Monument, CO games are the non-tour arena games.

Jtslick89 - thanks for the pick up.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[InlineMBA]

I never could totally comprehend the tremendous amount of work that NARCh put into their Finals schedule. Year after year, we would get our schedule - and like clockwork, every team had at least one game on the main arena, and of your 4 pool play games, 2 you were the away team and 2 you were the home team. AMAZING.

So, hats off to the NCRHA in putting together the DI Nationals schedule. All 5 of the top seeded teams in each pool have their 3 pool play games in Colorado Springs, and rightfully so - they deserve it. Also, each of the 15 remaining teams have at least one pool play game in Colorado Springs, with their other pool play games in Monument. I can't imagine how hard it must be to work all that out, and I'm not even taking into account the DII, DIII and B team's schedules.

Well done.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[BLowe7]

As of this morning, Shippensburg and Albany were the only D-II teams without a game at the Tour arena, unless that has changed

[NCRHA]

Jtslick89 is correct about how the games are currently listed, for the most part.

I emailed all team representatives last night and in that email I stated the following, in addition to what I posted above:

"The single elimination brackets will be posted by the end of the week.

Lastly, the rink assignments will be fixed soon. They should be correct for Weds/Thurs, but don't count on them being 100% set in stone yet. When I post the brackets later this week, I will have the rink assignments fixed as well, and will note that in the email."

I wanted to get all RR game times in, because that is the most imporrant, as well as the championship game times. I will be fixing the rink assignments. To make it easy to view, all Colorado Sports Center games will be noted as rink 2 as well as be assigned to Monument, CO. By noting them as rink 2, you will easily be able to see where you are playing, on the main schedule page.

[catch]

With all due repsect to the Albany Great Danes we at Missouri State have a secret plan for the initial game. Silda Spitzer has joined our staff as assistant coach, having both Elliots credit card statements and the Great Danes game plans on film. While our governor may be an incomptent bafoon who screwed up a wealth of things I will not go into, he was smart enough, just before he was caught in a scandal by his opponent, to declare he had been a complete success in 4 years and decided not to seek re-election. As to Albany Elliot, well the pain will continue. In all seriousness the Great Danes lax win last year over UMBC in the conference championship 15-14 and loss to cornell 11-12 (ot) are 2 of the greatest lax games in years. I wish you the best.

[missionhockey33]

With all due repsect to the Albany Great Danes we at Missouri State have a secret plan for the initial game. Silda Spitzer has joined our staff as assistant coach, having both Elliots credit card statements and the Great Danes game plans on film. While our governor may be an incomptent bafoon who screwed up a wealth of things I will not go into, he was smart enough, just before he was caught in a scandal by his opponent, to declare he had been a complete success in 4 years and decided not to seek re-election. As to Albany Elliot, well the pain will continue. In all seriousness the Great Danes lax win last year over UMBC in the conference championship 15-14 and loss to cornell 11-12 (ot) are 2 of the greatest lax games in years. I wish you the best.

ummmm can someone say long, drawn out, and CORNY

[catch]

its one thing to say it. its another to throw a boomerang

[csdahlberg]

i used to have a boomerang, but i could never make it fly all the way back to me.

is anyone else getting antsy waiting for nationals? it's getting hard for me to sleep, which is really unusual for me.

[NCRHA]

Single Elimination Brackets have been posted for all divisions.

Also, all rink assignments are now complete. Rink 1 is for Tour Arena in Colorado Springs, CO and Rink 2 is for Colorado Sports Center in Monument, CO.

Also, 2 Mission Hockey Colleges will be held at the event. Check out the Hockey College section of the www.ncrha.org website for registration and information.

[hockeydude92]

did you guys hire a photographer for this event?

[InlineMBA]

All teams in DI and DII (I didn't look any further) play a minimum of 4 games. #7 Seed vs #10 Seed, and #8 Seed vs #9 Seed - Play-In Games, nice touch.

Is that how it was done in proir years?

I don't quite understand the Elimination Brackets though - 2 sets of #1 Seeds, #2 Seeds, #3 Seeds, #4 Seeds and #5 Seeds.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[hockeyplayer1]

Its done the same way the NCAA march madness tourney is - in that case, there are 4 #1 seeds, 4 #2 seeds, etc. Here, there are only 2 sides of 10 teams, so each side has its own #1 seed, etc.

[dan sangiorgio]

i think it gives them a little wiggle room by having 2 sets of of numbers, so say 2 teams were in the same rr pool and given a 4 and a 5 seed they can be swapped on to oppsite ends while keeping there orginal seed.

[InlineMBA]

Its done the same way the NCAA march madness tourney is - in that case, there are 4 #1 seeds, 4 #2 seeds, etc. Here, there are only 2 sides of 10 teams, so each side has its own #1 seed, etc.

So, the overall #1 Seed and #2 Seed, would be #1 Seeds in each brackets of 8, and the overall #3 Seed and #4 Seed would be #2 Seeds in each bracket of 8, and so on, and so on?

Thanks for the help.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

[osu_buckeyes]

So, the overall #1 Seed and #2 Seed, would be #1 Seeds in each brackets of 8, and the overall #3 Seed and #4 Seed would be #2 Seeds in each bracket of 8, and so on, and so on?

Thanks for the help.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8

Yep, that is correct. Also, generally you won't play a team that you played in pool play during the first round, so the seeds may not be directly correlated to points and stats accrued during the round robin. It all depends on how everyone ends up breaking down after the round robin.

[InlineMBA]

Dave - Thanks a lot.

Now, when I look at last years brackets it makes more sense to me. I couldn't quite figure out the seeds after looking at the results of round robin play.

Steve Inge - ROXBURY 8