BOWLING GREEN — Five years ago, Alec Rauhauser was just hoping somebody — anybody — in Division I hockey would notice him.
Rauhauser had been an under-the-radar prospect as a high schooler in his home state of North Dakota, and even after a breakout second season in junior hockey, it felt to him like not much had changed.
The 6-foot-3 defenseman had 37 points in his second year with the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League, and still had not committed to a college hockey program at age 20, and not for a lack of trying on his end.