{"id":105010,"date":"2021-03-26T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=105010"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:38:32","slug":"michigan-wolverines-out-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/26\/michigan-wolverines-out-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Wolverines Out of NCAA Tournament Due to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Michigan Wolverines men&#8217;s hockey team has withdrawn from the NCAA Division I tournament due to COVID protocol. Minnesota-Duluth will advance to the next round in the Fargo Regional. College Hockey News first reported the news on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Michigan positive COVID case &#8211; withdraws from tournament. Minnesota-Duluth advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 College Hockey News (@chnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chnews\/status\/1375490804404338692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><b>Michigan Wolverines Withdraws<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news of Michigan\u2019s withdrawal comes just one day after COVID protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/25\/notre-dame-mens-hockey-out-of-ncaa-tournament-due-to-covid\/\" target=\"_self\">took Notre Dame out<\/a> of the tournament. Prior to receiving positive tests, the No. 8-ranked, No. 2-seeded Wolverines were set to play No. 9-ranked, No. 3-seeded Minnesota-Duluth in the first round of the Fargo Regional.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What It Means<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The COVID news is heartbreaking for Michigan. Going into the tournament, they had a 15-10-1 record and an extremely talented roster. The team featured NHL prospects Cam York (<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>), Thomas Bordeleau (<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>), and Brendan Brisson (<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>). They also had several projected draftees like Owen Power, Kent Johnson, and Matthew Beniers. Overall, Michigan\u2019s withdrawal is a disappointing turn of events for a strong team that had the potential to make a deep run in the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the 2020 NCAA tournament was cancelled due to COVID, Minnesota-Duluth is currently the defending champion. Michigan\u2019s withdrawal puts the Bulldogs one step closer to maintaining their title. Minnesota-Duluth will face either No. 1-ranked North Dakota or No. 4-seeded American International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the tournament as a whole, Michigan\u2019s COVID withdrawal is ominous. Coming directly on the heels of Notre Dame\u2019s positive tests, the news does not bode well for the rest of the teams. It remains to be seen how the remainder of the tournament will be affected by COVID, but at this point, it seems that all the NCAA can do is hope that no other teams contract the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan Wolverines men&#8217;s hockey team has withdrawn from the NCAA Division I tournament due to COVID protocol. Minnesota-Duluth will advance to the next round in the Fargo Regional. College Hockey News first reported the news on Friday. BREAKING: Michigan positive COVID case &#8211; withdraws from tournament. Minnesota-Duluth advances. \u2014 College Hockey News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3813,"featured_media":105026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3302,4547,34],"tags":[4675,5738,1530,1780,83],"class_list":["post-105010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ushl-ncaa","category-hockey","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-hockey-news","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-minnesota-duluth-bulldogs","tag-ncaa"],"modified_by":"Connor Lapalme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}