(04-08-2023 09:45 PM)mike012779 Wrote:  State of Connecticut with two NCAA titles in a week Babsketball and Hockey champions

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Go Quinipiac. Great ending.

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The latest Quinnipiac Poll has an unsurprising result: 100% of Quinnipiac Students are happy about their hockey Triumph.

What a way for Quinnipiac to win their first College hockey title! Congrats to all those in Hamden.

Congratulations, Quinnipiac!

Quote: So with that said, I’d like to honestly ask how many FBS/FCS athletic programs offer scholarships for men’s hockey? How many such programs have added that sport in the last 20-30 years?

Lindenwood, Stonehill, and St. Thomas to name a few.

(04-06-2023 09:56 PM)johnintx Wrote:  

(04-06-2023 08:39 PM)darkdragon99 Wrote:  

(04-06-2023 05:34 PM)AuzGrams Wrote:  Decent stuff so far in Tampa Bay. Would love to see a few more P5 schools join the college hockey ranks.

Syracuse and Buffalo are obvious choices but I guess they dont wanna spend the money.

A Syracuse team would compete with their basketball program and the local minor league team. Syracuse has chosen to invest in big-time hoops.

Buffalo has an NHL team. The university has chosen not to have a hockey team to compete with it.

Syracuse has chosen to focus on beating Cornell only at basketball on an annual basis.

(04-09-2023 12:25 PM)Mid-Major Hoops Enthusiast Wrote:  What a way for Quinnipiac to win their first College hockey title! Congrats to all those in Hamden.

And QU has enhanced their bonafides for a future Hockey East invite.

(04-09-2023 04:08 PM)Ridge1982 Wrote:  

Quote: So with that said, I’d like to honestly ask how many FBS/FCS athletic programs offer scholarships for men’s hockey? How many such programs have added that sport in the last 20-30 years?

Lindenwood, Stonehill, and St. Thomas to name a few.

Um, most of those schools had programs in lower divisions. Others had high end club teams, like Arizona State, Lindenwood, and Penn State . Other than LIU, I can't think of one that started from scratch..

(04-09-2023 07:36 PM)whittx Wrote:  And QU has enhanced their bonafides for a future Hockey East invite.

Why would UConn be ok with that ? Hockey East doesnt need them.

(04-10-2023 04:41 AM)darkdragon99 Wrote:  

(04-09-2023 07:36 PM)whittx Wrote:  And QU has enhanced their bonafides for a future Hockey East invite.

Why would UConn be ok with that ? Hockey East doesnt need them.

We would take them, almost assuredly. They, by all reports, have no interest in leaving their conference.

Congrats to Quinnipiac. What a crazy end to the game there.

(04-09-2023 07:36 PM)whittx Wrote:  

(04-09-2023 12:25 PM)Mid-Major Hoops Enthusiast Wrote:  What a way for Quinnipiac to win their first College hockey title! Congrats to all those in Hamden.

And QU has enhanced their bonafides for a future Hockey East invite.

The last two NCAA Hockey champions have never been to the NCAAT in basketball, and neither have a football team.

UMass, the 2021 champion has had one basketball appearance since 1998. If their football team played either of the non-existent football teams from Denver or Quinnipiac, it would be a pick game. If UMass were in the CAA, they would finish behind URI, UNH, and Delaware and three others. They would finish 10th in the MVFC.

Minnesota-Duluth the champion in 2018 and 2019 is not DI in other sports.

Denver was the champion in 2017. North Dakota in 2016 did not win a game in their sole NCAAT appearance.

Providence in 2015 is the last hockey champion to have had some success in basketball, including under Dave Gavitt, first commissioner of the Big East; under Rick Barnes later at UT and UT; and Rick Pitino, new head coach at St. John's (and formerly Kentucky, Louisville, and Iona). They don't have a football team.

The last B1G schools to be national hockey champions were Michigan State in 2007, Wisconsin 2006, Minnesota 2003, and Michigan 1998. The top football programs in the B1G, Ohio State and Penn State, have never been the champion in hockey.

UConn has a mediocre football and hockey program. This year they finished 4th in Hockey East but then went out in the first round of the conference playoffs to UMass Lowell, whose basketball team has never played in the NCAAT.

If UConn wants to ever win another basketball championship it is imperative that they fire Jim Mora now.

Kansas and Baylor don't have hockey teams, and it would be charitable to say that Kansas has a football team.

(04-10-2023 09:57 AM)e-parade Wrote:  We would take them, almost assuredly. They, by all reports, have no interest in leaving their conference.

I dont believe it. Hockey East is a mix of publics and privates, right ? Obviously the privates would vote to add them but why would the publics ? What do Umass and Uconn gain by adding them ? With a public and private split in a conference its tough to get a unanimous decision. Hockey East is kinda like the ACC in that respect.