Jayson Moy

The first Bracketology for 2014 shows six Hockey East teams in the NCAA tournament field of 16.

The bracket was announced tonight and as predicted, it fell this way: West Regional (Grand Rapids, Mich.): 15 Yale vs. 2 Minnesota 10 Niagara vs. 8 North Dakota Midwest Regional (Toledo, Ohio): 13 St. Cloud State vs. 4 Notre Dame 11 Minnesota State vs. 5 Miami East Regional (Providence, R.I.): 16 Canisius vs. 1 Quinnipiac … Read more

Notre Dame’s win over Michigan in the CCHA championship game gives Yale an at-large bid and keeps the Wolverines out of the tournament for the first time in 23 years. Let’s put down our bracket prediction first, and then we’ll explain how we got there. My predicted NCAA tournament bracket is as follows: West Regional … Read more

There’s one more game left to be played and it will decide which team will be the last to make it into the NCAA tournament. Let’s put the bracket prediction down first, and then we’ll explain how we got there after that. Since we have two different scenarios, let’s lay out two different brackets depending … Read more

After this afternoon’s games, it’s boiled down to this: Teams That Are Now In (14): Quinnipiac Minnesota Massachusetts-Lowell Miami Notre Dame Boston College New Hampshire North Dakota Denver Niagara Minnesota State Canisius/Mercyhurst Brown/Union Colorado College/Wisconsin Teams That Must Win To Get In (2): Boston University Michigan The Bubble (2): St. Cloud State Yale Teams Eliminated … Read more

Here is What I Believe after Friday’s games. Group A Teams that are in (11): Canisius/Mercyhurst winner Brown/Union winner Colorado College/Wisconsin winner Quinnipiac Minnesota Miami Boston College Massachusetts-Lowell North Dakota New Hampshire Denver Group B Teams that need to win the tournament to get in (9): Ohio State Michigan Boston University Canisius/Mercyhurst Brown/Union Colorado College/Wisconsin … Read more

What does Niagara’s loss mean? It means that the cutoff line now becomes 15. i.e., if you are in position 16 in the PWR, you are out of luck. That’s bad news for bubble teams like Union, Wisconsin, Boston University and Rensselaer. So the 16th position will go to either Canisius, Connecticut or Mercyhurst. This … Read more

So how do I see it now? It shakes out quite well… Providence 16 Wisconsin vs. 1 Quinnipiac 12 Minnesota State vs. 6 Massachusetts-Lowell Grand Rapids 14 Western Michigan vs. 2 Minnesota 10 Notre Dame vs. 8 St. Cloud State Toledo 13 Denver vs. 3 Miami 11 North Dakota vs. 7 Niagara Manchester 15 Union … Read more

It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style. It’s our weekly look at how I believe the NCAA tournament will wind up come selection time. It’s a look into what are the possible thought processes behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. This will be the last … Read more

An interesting Saturday of games saw some teams make a nice move. Notre Dame made a nice move, but mainly based on RPI because of winning, not because of Michigan moving into TUC range. The Irish, though, did pick up comparison wins over Rensselaer and Boston University because of adding four wins against Michigan. Colorado … Read more