No, your view is the correct one.  MSC purchased the whole tournament, but
chose not to show all of the games.  This may have been an attempt to get
people to go to the games, but it didn't appear to help.  This brings up
a question.  Why do the games need to be held at the biggest possible
venue if they don't fill it up?  North Dakota's new arena may not be able
to host the Final Five since it is a few thousand seats short.  As far as
other channels showing the games, they would have had to pay a lot of
money to MSC.  At least they didn't buy the Super Bowl, then they wouldn't
have shown it since the Vikings didn't make it.
 
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Nathan Eric Hampton wrote:
 
> I read that MSC would televise the finals of the WCHA tournament, plus any
> game involving the Gophers. Or was that only the semifinal involving the
> Gophers? Not only were we denied the great Denver-Colorado College game, but a
> view of at least one team who made the NCAA tournament that played in the
> nontelevised consolation game. Did others understand it differently?
>
> Nathan Eric Hampton
>
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