Call BU A 12 Seed

With March Madness in full swing, it will definitely be tough to pull myself away from the basketball action to head down to the Garden for tonight's game.  But in all reality, the Madness is getting underway for the Terriers against Maine tonight.

As we all know, BU blew any shot they had at an at-large bid when they stumbled against Providence and Vermont a few weeks ago.  After a loss in the middle game of last week's quarterfinals, the Terriers have used up 8 of their 9 lives, and officially have zero margin for error.  While BC is in no matter what and Vermont may be able to sneak in without winning out this weekend, BU needs the Lamoriello Trophy to officially dance.

But let's be honest.  The dance starts tonight.

In NCAA Basketball, it takes a string of 6 wins for a team to navigate its way through the field of 64 all the way to a National Title.  The official NCAA Hockey field is just a sweet group of sixteen teams.  Before BU can whittle it down to a four game win streak, they need to win two games this weekend.   That makes a total of six consecutive wins to re-gain the throne atop the college hockey world.

If you were to pretend that BU's 64 team tournament begins tonight, the road to Detroit doesn't seem quite so daunting.  Sure, they're a longshot, but if they can just find a way to win six straight games, it won't matter how many goals Kieran Millan let up in November, or how few Nick Bonino scored in December.

Throw out the fact that the final four Hockey East teams are fighting for the distinction of being Hockey East's best, and focus on the simple fact that all other trophies aside, a six game winning streak would mean that the Terriers, after all their trials and tribulations, would be kings of the world again.

Every game is a must win for the Terriers now, and we're going to find out this weekend what they're made of.

In hoops yesterday we saw that Texas, once a #1 ranked team, simply didn't have what it takes to climb the mountain.  But Ohio, a complete afterthought in the basketball world, knocked off Georgetown, a beast of the Big East.  Murray State (yes, Murray State) took down Vanderbilt.  If either one of those teams can win five more games, they will be champions forever.  It doesn't matter what conference they play in, or what their regular season record was.

BU needs to act like a mid-major basketball team, and start playing like they have something to prove.  Because if they can win six in a row, they'll earn something that nobody can ever take away from them.