The four coaches of the participating teams are quite close, and they had a lot of fun talking about that during their press conferences on Friday. I wrote about that as a main preview feature for the weekend.
For more from Thursday's events, read my regional notebook here, and to preview the weekend, my College Hockey game day here.
Minnesota State will start the tournament against Minnesota Duluth. Matt Wellens of the Duluth News-Tribune wrote about the very-Minnesota flare to the regional and previews more here.
St. Cloud State will play Air Force in the first game, and the St. Cloud Times' Mick Hatten writes about St. Cloud native Dan Bailey, who plays for the Falcons. He also looks at the ties between the coaches here.
The Colorado Springs Gazette has more on Air Force here.
There was a lot of talk of Don Lucia and his departure from Minnesota, of course, and the coaches were all asked about that (with many undertones about their own potential candidacy for that job). The Star Tribune's Randy Johnson tackled that story here.
The Athletic has more about the matchup between the Mavericks and the Bulldogs, as well as more about the praise for Lucia.
More regional previews here and here from USCHO and College Hockey News. And CHN also did a feature on the Mavericks' C.J. Suess.
Let's also not forget about Michigan Tech, which is playing in the East Regional against Notre Dame in the first game of the day today.
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