{"id":3532,"date":"2011-04-13T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2011-04-13T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:52:16","slug":"amazing-young-icers-reach-ncaa-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2011\/04\/amazing-young-icers-reach-ncaa-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Young Icers Reach NCAA Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3917\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/hockeyphoto\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,714\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1288653811&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Casey B. Gibson 2010&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hockey 2011\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-300x178.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-1024x609.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3917\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Hockey 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto-624x371.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/HockeyPhoto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Craving the hockey program\u2019s first NCAA tournament victory in six years, our Tigers let loose with a mighty roar on Friday, March 25. The Eagles from Boston College, defending national champions, never knew what hit them.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado College stunned BC with three goals within a span of 3:28 early in the game, added its first of two shorthanded tallies late in the first period, and pulled off a stunning 8-4 upset in opening-round West Regional action in St. Louis, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>And, although CC saw its dream of a national championship come to an end 24 hours later with a 2-1 loss to the University of Michigan, this team of 16 freshmen and sophomores could be extremely proud after embarking on a post-season run that exceeded all expectations.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the final weekend of the regular season that the Tigers earned the sixth and final spot for home ice in the first round of the WCHA playoffs, winning a game at the University of Wisconsin to finish one point ahead of the Badgers in the league standings.<\/p>\n<p>UW then won the opener of a best-of-three playoff series at the World Arena. Colorado College roared back with come-from-behind victories the next two nights, advancing to the WCHA Final Five, where it secured an NCAA tournament bid with a 4-2 victory over the University of Alaska Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>CC finished with an overall record of 23-19-3 after playing a school-record 45 games (excluding two exhibitions) in 2010-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craving the hockey program\u2019s first NCAA tournament victory in six years, our Tigers let loose with a mighty roar on Friday, March 25. The Eagles from Boston College, defending national champions, never knew what hit them. Colorado College stunned BC with three goals within a span of 3:28 early in the game, added its first&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2011","tag-around-cc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}