Having been an English literary graduate ...

I was told there would be no math. (Okay, that's not true. I'm not an English major, in fact I toil in a rather math-intensive field. But Douglas Adams never said jack about that. And that doesn't stop the CCHA magic number from being tedious to calculate, nor the PWR from being near-inexplicable)

After tonight's game 1 out in Omaha (Billy, you're turning into a Calle, don't stop it?) here's where Notre Dame stands with regards to winning their second-ever CCHA regular season championship:
-- ND moves to 42 points in the league with 3 games remaining.
-- UM moves to 36 points in the league with 3 games remaining, so they can get to 42 points.
-- MU stays at 36 points in the league with 3 games remaining, so they can get to 42 points.

So our magic number versus Miami is one point (a failure to win by Miami or even a single tie for us). We have to beat them outright, because in order to be in the position in which we were to tie in points, Miami would have to win three straight and ND lose three straight, which would give them the first CCHA tiebreaker (league wins) 19-18.

Versus Michigan, our magic number is also 1 point, because we have to beat them outright because they would beat us in the first tiebreaker (21-18).

"Go Irish At Least Get A Point Versus Mavericks!" doesn't quite have the right cadence, though.