I'll say this much: when the BU men's ice hockey team loses, they lose.

There's not much to say in the wake of yesterday's second round NCAA loss, given how every facet of the game was in some level of disarray. There were occasional flashes that suggested the team was getting on track, but they could never sustain it. Ugly, ugly hockey, not helped by the officiating, which was probably too lax on the cheap stuff, given how last night and the UNO game got chippy. I'm all for letting teams play, but it's not too hard to separate out the clean hits from the junk.

Not that it would have made a huge difference last night.

While we're 1.5 rounds through the tournament, here are the Frozen Four pool standings through the first round (I'll update for the second round after today's two games):

Barker: 9 points
Hight: 7
M. Coen: 6
Crowley: 6
Sorenson: 6
S. Coen: 5
Boggie: 4
De Veau: 4
Harper-Nixon: 3

Given how many people had BU and Wisconsin in the final (all but one), Craig may have already locked this thing up (the "beauty" of a tournament pool where there are only 15 games). I think Paul can catch him, if North Dakota makes the final.

Not surprisingly, no one had Holy Cross beating Minnesota. We heard about that walking back from dinner (we stayed for one period of BC-Miami), and got the score from the friend of ours who stayed. The restaurant, located a 5 minute walk from the DCU Center, wasn't showing hockey, opting instead for the BC-Villanova men's basketball game. At leasst that turned out right.