Need to get away for a while?

The University of Vermont has some available tickets for this weekend's NCAA East regional at the Bridgeport Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn.

North Dakota hockey fans will find Manchester, N.H., to be a spring destination.

Josh Morton, director of the Fighting Sioux Club, the fundraising arm of North Dakota's athletics department, told the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader that approximately 1,100 UND graduates live in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York - all within driving distance of New Hampshire.

If you can't spare the cash but you're still interested in watching the NCAA hockey tournament this weekend, Inside College Hockey has a grid of the broadcast schedule.

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A college hockey program will disappear, at the expense of the economy. The University of Minnesota-Crookston will discontinue its Division II men's hockey program.

"We exhausted every possible option before taking this step," Stephanie Helgeson, director of athletics, told the Crookston Daily Times. "We certainly don't take this lightly, but the reality of the economics of the state of Minnesota, the need to manage our University resources effectively, and the increasing challenges of fielding an NCAA independent hockey schedule with no post-season have led us to this difficult decision."

Last week, Bowling Green (Ohio) State University announced that it would field all 18 of its varsity sports next school year after the school mulled budget cuts to its athletic department.

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