Tentative 2011-12 SCSU Schedule

This is a tentative schedule, so it may not stay the same. It has been my experience that the tentative schedule is the actual schedule, though. The only time I've seen changes is when they've added a tournament and rescheduled a non-conference game.

All bolded items are WCHA conference games. Road games have an @ symbol, home games do not.

Oct. 7-8	@ UAA Tourney
Oct. 14-15	@ Northern Michigan
Oct. 21-22	New Hamshire
Oct. 28-29	@ UND
Nov. 4-5	Wisconsin
Nov. 11-12	@ Mankato
Nov. 18-19	Minnesota*
Nov. 25-26	@ Omaha
Dec. 2-3	Bemidji
Dec. 16-17	Denver
Dec. 30-31	@ Western Michigan
Jan. 13-14	@ Colorado College
Jan. 20-21	UND
Jan. 27-28	Minnesota*
Feb. 3-4	@ Wisconsin
Feb. 17-18	Anchorage
Feb. 24-25	@ Michigan Tech
March 2-3	Duluth
March 9-11	WCHA First Round Playoffs
March 15-17	WCHA Final Five
March 23-25	NCAA Playoffs
April 5-7	Frozen Four

*I'm not sure if the Gopher series are home-and-home or not at this point. I would have to assume that they are as we are playing them four times.

The Huskies will play the Gophers, Badgers, and Sioux four times each next year and will play every other team in the league only twice. With the addition of Bemidji and Omaha, the WCHA went to a system where you rotate the teams you play four times based on the "rival" system they've setup.

In this system, the Huskies will always play the Sioux four times, and will rotate through rival pairs. This year we play the pairing of Bemidji and Omaha, next year it's Minnesota and Wisconsin. I don't know what the rotation will be after that.

Also, some may have noticed that the Huskies finally have a good eastern school on the schedule in New Hampshire. We will get UNH at home next season and will travel to UNH the following season. I'm hoping some success in these games will start to open the doors to some of the other perennial top teams in the country, but I'm not holding my breath.