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Better Red than Dead
I thought a generic 'University Cup' thread might get too long, so here is one for the coming tournament.
Teams
Currently we know the 6 teams in the tournament; USask (Host), UoAlberta (Canada West Champion) as well as UNB & SMU (AUS Finalists), Waterloo and UQTR (OUA Finalists).
Location
The tournament will be held at Credit Union Centre (commonly referred to as the C.U.C. and originally Saskatchewan Place or SaskPlace) with an upgraded capacity of 11,000.
This is the second time the tournament has been played here - the first three(3) years of the current 6 team format were hosted here. UNB won their first title in year one (1998) over Acadia followed by two UoAlberta titles (both over AUS champions - UdeM in 1999 and UNB in 2000).
Host UoSaskatchewan failed to make it to the finals each year, knocked out in 1998 with an 0-2 record (lost to Acadia & UQTR), a 1-1 record in 1999 (win over Windsor but lost to UdeM) and a 1-1 record in 2000 (win in OT over Western but lost in OT to UNB).
Pools
My predictions for Pools:
Pool-A (afternoon): UoA (#1), UQTR(#4) and SMU(#6)
Pool-B (night):UNB (#2), Waterloo (#3) and USask (#5)
Seeds 4-5-6 are moot as they are decided by being in the opposite pool as their conference champion.
Final Seedings will be voted on by the CIS Top Ten committe on Sat. Mar. 9th. The AUS and OUA finals are still being played
Day 1
With UoSaskatchewan playing on Thursday - I suspect they will play the OUA team putting UNB in a position of having to win three in a row. UoAlberta has the less than envious task of playing Thursday afternoon vs the AUS Wildcard assuming #1 vs #6 to start (they haven't had great success in that position over the years - the last three times have been loses; Lost 3-2OT2 to SFX in 2003, lost 2-1 to UdeM in 2007 (still went on to win Gold though), lost 6-3 to UNB 2009.
Teams
Currently we know the 6 teams in the tournament; USask (Host), UoAlberta (Canada West Champion) as well as UNB & SMU (AUS Finalists), Waterloo and UQTR (OUA Finalists).
Location
The tournament will be held at Credit Union Centre (commonly referred to as the C.U.C. and originally Saskatchewan Place or SaskPlace) with an upgraded capacity of 11,000.
This is the second time the tournament has been played here - the first three(3) years of the current 6 team format were hosted here. UNB won their first title in year one (1998) over Acadia followed by two UoAlberta titles (both over AUS champions - UdeM in 1999 and UNB in 2000).
Host UoSaskatchewan failed to make it to the finals each year, knocked out in 1998 with an 0-2 record (lost to Acadia & UQTR), a 1-1 record in 1999 (win over Windsor but lost to UdeM) and a 1-1 record in 2000 (win in OT over Western but lost in OT to UNB).
Pools
My predictions for Pools:
Pool-A (afternoon): UoA (#1), UQTR(#4) and SMU(#6)
Pool-B (night):UNB (#2), Waterloo (#3) and USask (#5)
Seeds 4-5-6 are moot as they are decided by being in the opposite pool as their conference champion.
Final Seedings will be voted on by the CIS Top Ten committe on Sat. Mar. 9th. The AUS and OUA finals are still being played
Day 1
With UoSaskatchewan playing on Thursday - I suspect they will play the OUA team putting UNB in a position of having to win three in a row. UoAlberta has the less than envious task of playing Thursday afternoon vs the AUS Wildcard assuming #1 vs #6 to start (they haven't had great success in that position over the years - the last three times have been loses; Lost 3-2OT2 to SFX in 2003, lost 2-1 to UdeM in 2007 (still went on to win Gold though), lost 6-3 to UNB 2009.