So where is a Vitale to call Ted Drury a PTP'er (Prime Time Player, in Vitale-speak) or Tripp Tracy a diaper dandy (outstanding freshman)?

"We're in a market where there are a lot of things that are going on," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni asserts. "There's big-time football, big-time basketball, and of course it's a pro sports city. Hockey's a regional sport at best, so you just have to get used to it.

"If you let that bother you, you're going to let a lot of things bother you."

OK, maybe I can buy that argument. But what about the fact that Harvard couldn't even sell out its own rink for play-off action against a team that it barely took three points from in the regular season?

"Maybe the storm warnings scared people...I don't know," said Tomassoni.

Don't get me wrong--I think that hockey is the most exciting spectator sport God has yet created, and the bands and school spirit that Harvard students bring to the ice to support its only big-time sport can get the chills running through my veins. But college hockey's lack of any significant national media attention make me turn to sports bars, "Tournament Week," and, yes, even Dick Vitale for the true pulse of college sports.

Harvard 6, Princeton 2?

I wish somebody else out there cared.

Other ECAC Quarterfinal Games

Yale 3, Brown 3 (Tied, 1-1)

Colgate at RPI (late)

SLU at Clarkson (late)