Well, perhaps not surprsingly, my beloved Badger Hockey Team fell to the perennial powerhouse of North Dakota Thursday night in a tight 3-2 loss.
Not to put too fine a point on it Jason, but I see that the BU Terriers went down whimpering in a 5-2 upset to New Hampshire. Sorry about that. Better luck next time.
"That was a sad performance by the Boston University hockey team," Terriers coach Jack Parker said. "It was beyond belief how poorly we played in every phase of the game. We looked inept on the power-play rush, inept on our forecheck. We looked slow, back on our heels. It was just unbearable to watch.
There wasn't one thing I could point to in the first two periods that made us look anything like how we've played in the last three months," Parker said. "Bad time to lay an egg. Maybe we can come back and get this out of our system so when we play in Worcester next week it won't be our last game of the year."
Ouch - that hurts.
The Badgers are still on the bubble for the NCAA tourney finals, but have to wait for some other games to play out before we know for sure. Fingers crossed.
In other news, the Badger Men's basketball team beat Northern Iowa last night to advance to the next bracket in March Madness! And in a stunning upset, 14th seed Bucknell beat the number 3 seed Kansas, so the Badgers (6) now take on Bucknell and their hopes to make the Regionals on Easter weekend stay alive. Go Badgers!!!
