Long live the WCHA!

-glen-

Quoting "Hampton, Nathan E." <[log in to unmask]>:

> Michigan First Big Ten Loser
>
> AP - In the first battle between the WCHA and the Big Ten in the NCAA 
> Ice Hockey Tournament championship game, the WCHA's UM-Duluth 
> Bulldogs beat the Big Ten's entrant from Ann Arbor, the University of 
> Michigan Wolverines. The Big Ten's early futility raises questions 
> about the football league's ability to compete in hockey. Adding 
> further to the question of whether the Big Ten can compete with the 
> WCHA and other established hockey conferences is the fact that four 
> (North Dakota, Denver, Colorado College, and UM-Duluth) of the WCHA's 
> teams made the NCAA tournament, but only one (Michigan) of the Big 
> Ten teams made the NCAA tournament. The NCAA has yet to guarantee the 
> Big Ten an automatic bid to the tournament, but all teams hope that 
> ruling is made to avoid them further embarrassment.
>
> Nathan
>
> p,s, Sara, great pictures. Thanks.
>