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February 14, 2006
BEANPOT, BABY!
It'd be almost old if it wasn't so damn satisfying every year. For the 10th time in the last 12 years, my alma mater Boston University won the 2006 Beanpot tournament and took home the trophy... again. (For the uninitiated, the "Beanpot" is the annual hockey tournament between the Boston area's four national college hockey powerhouses: BU, Boston College, Harvard and Northeastern. They take it very seriously -- bragging rights for the Beanpot are like the Michigan-Ohio State game, the USC-UCLA game, and Texas-Oklahoma all in one. College hockey is serious damn business in Boston.) The tournament's been played 54 times. BU has won 27. That's half, for those of you who went to Harvard.
This year's title win came at the expense of Boston College (or Betting Central, as Tim likes to call them), who are our archrivals. We handed them their ass, 3-2. (Yes, I know that's a close score. Shut up. We handed them their ass.) The only thing better than winning the Beanpot (again) is beating BC to do it (again).
The Terriers have now won 11 straight -- the longest current streak in NCAA hockey -- and have now risen to #5 in the country according to the latest rankings. (And yes, I know that my undergrad school, Minnesota, is #1. I'm no front runner; my loyalties lie with my grad school and always will.) We're a solid #2 seed in the Hockey East tournament, and are gaining on Betting Central.
Yes, I realize that no one in this blog community cares about college hockey or is from Boston, and I am talking smack basically to myself. Shut up. BU won the Beanpot. Again.
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