Mavs Head to Western Michigan; Sunday Game on ESPN
Jan 3, 2008 | Hockey
Nebraska-Omaha will travel to Kalamazoo, Mich. for the first Central Collegiate Hockey Association match up of the new year. The Saturday night game starts at 6:35 p.m. CST and Sunday the puck drops at 3:05 p.m. CST and will be televised on ESPNU.
Media Coverage
The games will be broadcast on KKAR, 1290 AM, with the pre-game show beginning 30 minutes before face-off. Greg Harrington will call the action, with Terry Leahy providing color commentary.
The Records
UNO now stands at 7-10-3 overall and 4-7-3 in the CCHA and Western Michigan is 6-11-1 overall and 2-8-0 in the conference.
The Coaches
Nebraska-Omaha's Mike Kemp is in his 11th season as the Maverick head coach. Kemp is a 1975 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. The Duluth, Minn., native is 169-197-48 at UNO overall and has a 95-108-36 mark in the CCHA. Jim Culhane is in his ninth season as head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos and has a record of 134-66-31, including seven games he coached as interim head coach in the second half of the 1998-1999 season.
The Series
The Mavericks hold the overall advantage over the Broncos 9-7-4 but Western Michigan has a slight edge in Kalamazoo with a 4-3-3 record.
Last Meeting
UNO swept WMU 7-5 and 6-0 Oct. 27-28, 2006 in Omaha. Junior defenseman Juha Uotila netted five points in the two games (1-4-5) with three assists in the 6-0 victory and senior forward Mick Lawrence had two markers and a helper for three points in the 6-0 shutout.
Last Week
UNO fell 6-3 to Yale on Friday, Dec. 28 in front of a crowd of 6,702 fans at the Qwest Center Omaha and suffered a 5-3 loss to Princeton in front of a Sunday crowd of 6,859 on Dec. 30, 2007.
Coming up
Clustermate, No. 1 Miami will travel to Omaha for the remaining two games of the four meetings Jan. 12-13. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. CST both nights at the Qwest Center Omaha.
Media Coverage
The games will be broadcast on KKAR, 1290 AM, with the pre-game show beginning 30 minutes before face-off. Greg Harrington will call the action, with Terry Leahy providing color commentary.
The Records
UNO now stands at 7-10-3 overall and 4-7-3 in the CCHA and Western Michigan is 6-11-1 overall and 2-8-0 in the conference.
The Coaches
Nebraska-Omaha's Mike Kemp is in his 11th season as the Maverick head coach. Kemp is a 1975 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. The Duluth, Minn., native is 169-197-48 at UNO overall and has a 95-108-36 mark in the CCHA. Jim Culhane is in his ninth season as head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos and has a record of 134-66-31, including seven games he coached as interim head coach in the second half of the 1998-1999 season.
The Series
The Mavericks hold the overall advantage over the Broncos 9-7-4 but Western Michigan has a slight edge in Kalamazoo with a 4-3-3 record.
Last Meeting
UNO swept WMU 7-5 and 6-0 Oct. 27-28, 2006 in Omaha. Junior defenseman Juha Uotila netted five points in the two games (1-4-5) with three assists in the 6-0 victory and senior forward Mick Lawrence had two markers and a helper for three points in the 6-0 shutout.
Last Week
UNO fell 6-3 to Yale on Friday, Dec. 28 in front of a crowd of 6,702 fans at the Qwest Center Omaha and suffered a 5-3 loss to Princeton in front of a Sunday crowd of 6,859 on Dec. 30, 2007.
Coming up
Clustermate, No. 1 Miami will travel to Omaha for the remaining two games of the four meetings Jan. 12-13. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. CST both nights at the Qwest Center Omaha.
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