While most of you are watching the Final Four, we'll be trying to find a place to watch the Frozen Four. Bemidji State (yes, there is such a school) is in my old stomping grounds--my brother taught there for years) upset Notre Dame to advance to the Frozen Four Collegiate Hockey Championships--Go Beavers :
From The Wall Street Journal

* SPORTS
* MARCH 30, 2009, 9:47 P.M. ET

The Count
Could Bemidji State Pull Off the Biggest Upset Ever?

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Bemidji State, a liberal-arts school in northern Minnesota, has an endowment of about $12 million. Notre Dame, a somewhat more prominent university in northern Indiana, spent roughly five times that much on athletics last year.

This is why Bemidji State's ascension to college hockey's Frozen Four -- which included a 5-1 rout of No. 2 Notre Dame Saturday -- is one of
the greatest upsets in collegiate sports history.
[ultimate underdogs]

No upset may ever match Chaminade's 1982 victory over Virginia in men's basketball. Virginia entered that game ranked No. 1, while Chaminade
had recently lost to Wayland Baptist. Still, it was just a regular-season game.

If one also takes into account the direct impact the upset had on its sport's championship, others rank higher. Michigan's title chances
ended in Appalachian State's landmark 2007 football upset. Top-seeded Stanford became the first (and only) team to fall to a No. 16 seed,
when it lost to Harvard in the 1998 women's basketball tournament.

The closest parallel to Bemidji State is last year's Fresno State baseball team, which became the lowest-seeded team to win an NCAA title
(the Bulldogs were seeded below 48 of 64 teams). But Bemidji State is by far the lowest-ranked team in this year's hockey tournament, plus
the Beavers hail from a four-team conference that is in danger of disbanding. So if they keep their run going, they may become the biggest surprise of all.
—Darren Everson


Peggy