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Wisconsin’s win in the WCHA championship game Saturday not only put the Badgers into the NCAA tournament, it made one short list even shorter.<\/p>\n

Badgers coach Mike Eaves<\/a> won the national championship in 2006, but until last weekend he didn’t have a conference title on his coaching resume.<\/p>\n

The only other name on the list of national championship-winning coaches without a league title was Amo Bessone<\/a>, who led Michigan State to the 1966 NCAA crown but never took the Spartans or Michigan Tech to the top of their league.<\/p>\n

(Well, unless you count Big Ten championships<\/a> that Michigan State has from 1958-59, 1966-67, 1970-71, 1972-73 and 1975-76, but those were determined by the results of regular season games played between league schools while they were members of other conferences.)<\/p>\n

Turning to this year’s NCAA tournament, there are 11 coaches looking for a first national championship, but only Minnesota State’s Mike Hastings (the only first-year college head coach in the field) doesn’t have a conference title on his resume.<\/p>\n

COACHES LOOKING FOR FIRST NCAA TITLE IN 2013<\/strong>
\nKeith Allain<\/a>, Yale
\nNorm Bazin<\/a>, Massachusetts-Lowell
\nRick Bennett<\/a>, Union
\nRico Blasi<\/a>, Miami
\nDave Burkholder<\/a>, Niagara
\nDave Hakstol<\/a>, North Dakota
\nMike Hastings<\/a>, Minnesota State
\nBob Motzko<\/a>, St. Cloud State
\nRand Pecknold<\/a>, Quinnipiac
\nDave Smith<\/a>, Canisius
\nDick Umile<\/a>, New Hampshire<\/p>\n

The other five coaches in the tournament have combined for 12 of the 65 national championships that have been awarded.<\/p>\n

Boston College’s Jerry York<\/a> has five (1984 with Bowling Green; 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012 with BC); Denver’s George Gwozdecky<\/a> (2004, 2005), Notre Dame’s Jeff Jackson<\/a> (1992 and 1994 with Lake Superior State) and Minnesota’s Don Lucia<\/a> (2002, 2003) each have two; and Wisconsin’s Eaves has one (2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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