NCAA Weekender: Hockey East teams in precarious position

Recapping the biggest stories of the NCAA weekend.

Split, split, split, split.

That's how it went in the four Hockey East in-conference series this weekend.

In fact, that's more or less how it's gone all season. Of the 19 home-and-home series through the first seven weeks of Hockey East play, 13 have been either a three-and-three or four-and-two point split. Meaning the Hockey East Standings currently have all but one team within two games of .500. And the team that's not there is 11th-place UMass, a club many observers thought was an NCAA bubble team, at the very least, coming into the season.

Coaches, for their part, think it's all kind of inexplicable. Two Saturdays ago after a bad loss to Quinnipiac, Boston University coach Jay Pandolfo called his team "very poorly coached." In early Novem