College Hockey:
Concordia Rolls Over St. Mary’s

USCHO Staff Report • Nov. 4, 2000

WINONA, Minn. — Concordia scored three straight goals to open the game and coasted to a 5-2 victory over St. Mary’s on Saturday. The Cobbers, after narrowly escaping defeat Friday night, held the Cardinals scoreless for two periods and never let them get to within two goals.

Transfer Toby Schneider scored two goals and assisted on another. Schneider scored the only goal of the first period at 13:50. Concordia put the game out of reach in the second period with power-play goals from Schneider and Brady Burgess. The teams traded goals in the third period with Aaron Marsh scoring his first collegiate goal for Concordia.

Cobber goalie Bryan Howard made 32 saves on the day. St. Mary’s goalie Dan Byron stopped 31 shots.

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Fox5 2
Hey Paula,The few weeks should be very interesting in the CCHA some good matchups that will have a Big outcome for the regular season standings.As you can see the 2nd half of the season is when teams wake up and start playing hard night in and night out(except ohio state).And as far as the regular season standings,they really don’t matter once the tourney starts you’ll see the power houses of the CCHA come to life.My 1 question is,How do the Voters determine te ranked teams??I can’t quite understand how teams lose 8 straight or 4 of 6 games and they stay put in the rankings.Do they use the rankings 2 pick the NCAA tournament?Sorry that’s 2 questions.Thanks.GO BLUE!
- IHF
  Fox5 2: I hope your not offended if I assume you are new to the sport? The process for picking the tournament is very transparent. It may not be perfect but most college hockey fans at least are happy that we know exactly why our team makes it or doesn’t.
  Go to the black banner on most USCHO pages and mouse over rankings, then click on Mens D1: PWR. This will give you the current ratings. Remember each conference gets one automatic bid to the NCAA tournament (whoever wins their post season tournament), and the other 11 teams selected will be the highest rated teams in the pairwise ranking (PWR) who didn’t win their tourney. The PWR that USCHO and many other college hockey sites list only really matters once the conference tournaments are complete. The numbers now are always needed to be looked at as “if the season ended now.” Remember to check out the “bracketology” articles on this site and FAQs on some of the others. They will explain all the ins and outs of how the field is selected and seeded, and how the teams end up wherever they end up.
  - Paula Weston
    Thanks, IHF, for telling Fox5 2 about how to get to the PWR. I didn’t mean to imply that the NCAA selection committee’s process isn’t transparent — clearly, given the ability to mimic it with the PWR, it’s not much of a mystery — but there are variations sometimes that aren’t apparent until it’s all over.
    And Fox5 2, absolutely check out the excellent “Bracketology” blog. When things come down to it and USCHO’s Jayson Moy is blogging weekly, Bracketology is a fun as well as useful read.
  - Fox5 2
    Not new 2 the sport,just new 2 computers.I live in New jersey and as you can guess we get no college hockey or college hockey news.It sucks.Thanks for the power ranking info,it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Paula Weston
Good morning, Fox5 2!
I can’t speak for all voters, but I know that when I vote I look at not just a team’s most recent performance but overall trends and developments. Some voters may take the PairWise Rankings into consideration, too. You allude to Ohio State, which had a rough month. OSU is still high in the PWR, though, so that may affect some voters.
The NCAA hockey selection committee has its own formula for picking the 16-team tournament field. We at USCHO think that the PWR mimics that process closely, but no one knows for certain until the field is announced exactly what the committee seems to have done to pick a given year’s field. The poll has nothing to do with that process.
Josh
As a Lake State fan, here’s what I DON’T get. Ohio State is winless in eight games, yet maintains a top ten ranking nationally. That’s pathetic.
LSSU, who took 5/6 points from the Buckeyes, not only fail to move up significantly, but actually drop a spot LOWER in the voting! What the heck? You know who passed them? Michigan State…who got swept over the weekend.
People are stupid everywhere.
- Fox5 2
  Josh totally agree with you,you can’t lose 8 straight and drop 8 spots over 4 weeks.I don’t care who your competition is.Ohio state is a fraud anyway.
  - Josh
    Thanks Fox5 2! I have to admit, I still think Ohio State is a decent team. But I believe they are severely overrated, and that the voting seems to be playing favorites. We saw this at the beginning of the year when 7-6-1 Denver was ranked #10.
- Bigguy9329
  you’re right, thats ridiculous.
  - Josh
    Thanks for the support!
- Day Man
  While I think the voters you speak of have some logic behind them, I still agree more with you. Its laughable sometimes!
- Day Man
  In the second month of the season Miami U swept Alaska and moved from 26th in the votes to 25th. Next they beat and tied Michigan and didn’t move a single spot. I know they built up some negative charge going 2-6 in October but it was still crazy that a pretty good weekend didn’t convince enough voters to result in moving closer to the top 20. Its all opinion though and I believe every voter wouldn’t claim omniscience in the matter. They try to fairly rank teams though and their scope of knowledge only extends to so many teams.
  - Josh
    Thank you Day Man! I would prefer to edit my post, as I don’t believe the voters to be stupid…but it still makes little sense to me why some teams can move up with ease or take forever to drop. Conversely, some teams play a perfect weekend and move up one spot (or in the case of LSSU, actually drop in the voting).
dusty bronco
Dang, lose one game drop from first to fourth. Should be a great finish and I can’t wait until Ohio Sucks comes to Lawson…gonna get rowdy
WMUFAN
Paula I have a question about your article about the Sheahans hit on Walters. We all know who made the hit on Walters including the ND coach Jackson.The video doesn’t lie. So why didn’t he appeal the penalty on Costello so the CCHA could review it. Then the proper penalty could be assigned to Sheahans? He had no problem appealing that infraction when they assigned it to the player who really did it. So my question is why would Jackson be so angry!!! He knew who committed the infraction. If he would have done the right thing from the start. We would not even be discussing it.I question coach Jackson motive about this whole incident. It just doesn”t make any sence.
- matt foley
  as a ND fan, i gotta agree w wmufan; jackson should have owned up on the spot; even though sheahan’s hit was clearly not a head shot, it also was clearly planted on a defense-less player who didn’t either have the puck or had just released the puck. there’s also something very wrong w an officiating system that allows video review on goals but not to correctly identify the correct player on a penalty.