{"id":51454,"date":"2013-04-10T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=51454"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:31:21","slug":"massachusetts-lowells-bazin-earns-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/04\/10\/massachusetts-lowells-bazin-earns-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts-Lowell’s Bazin earns Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men’s coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Massachusetts-Lowell’s Norm Bazin has been named the Spencer Penrose Award winner as the Division I men’s coach of the year.<\/p>\n
Bazin led the River Hawks to Hockey East regular season and playoff titles and a No. 1 regional seed in the NCAA tournament. Lowell plays Yale in the Frozen Four semifinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Finalists for the award, presented by the American Hockey Coaches Association, are the coaches of Frozen Four teams and the winners of the league coach of the year awards.<\/p>\n
In his second season at his alma mater, Bazin has led the River Hawks to a 28-10-2 record that includes wins in 14 of their last 15 games.<\/p>\n
He has been his league’s coach of the year four years in a row: two at Lowell, two at Hamilton in the Division III NESCAC.<\/p>\n
Last season, he posted the largest turnaround in NCAA Division I history, taking Lowell from five wins in 2010-11 to a 24-13-1 season in 2011-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Massachusetts-Lowell’s Norm Bazin has been named the Spencer Penrose Award winner as the Division I men’s coach of the year. Bazin led the River Hawks to Hockey East regular season and playoff titles and a No. 1 regional seed in the NCAA tournament. Lowell plays Yale in the Frozen Four semifinals on Thursday. Finalists for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n