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After the results of March 15

First things is first. For those of you looking at the PWR and the RPI, you will see that Colorado College is at...
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Six weeks out, and there’s only so much room in the East for No. 3 seeds

Providence, Harvard and Boston College all surely would like to play in either Providence or Manchester, but only two can with the way the seedings shake out today.
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Historically, the PairWise on Jan. 1 has been a good predictor of the NCAA tournament field

People who have followed this thread in the Fan Forum for the past few years know the PairWise Rankings as of Jan. 1 are a solid indicator of the teams that qualify for the NCAA tournament in March.

With four NCAA tournament spots open, here’s what’s at stake in Saturday’s conference title games

Twelve teams are locked into the 2022 Division I men's NCAA tournament. Here's Saturday's conference championship schedule and what can happen to get the final four teams settled.

After Thursday

After two WCHA games on Thursday night, here is basically what happened.  Colorado College bolstered its chances of getting into the tournament, in turn...

10 weeks out, and Hockey East has a strong presence in the bracket

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

What I Believe – Monday, 3/16

One week until the selections and it's time to summarize things in the segment I like to call "What I Believe." This segment gives a...
The Quinnipiac University Bobcats and University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks play for the 2016 D1 National Championship on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. (Melissa Wade)

Never too early to start prognosticating the 2017 NCAA tournament

We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's minds. Will my team make the NCAA tournament? Where does it sit...

The bracket and analysis

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...

BRACKETOLOGY EXTRA: Defining the PairWise bubble and what would need to happen for bubble teams to make it

After this weekend's games, the PairWise bubble became very well defined. So much so that the three teams on the bubble know exactly what...

UNH still on the bubble

Thanks to Brass Bonanza, we have to take UNH out of the "in" column and put UNH on the bubble. Here's what Brass Bonanza came...

Bracket Analysis: Success against best teams in your league guided NCAA Selection Committee; travel wasn’t major consideration

With Selection Sunday now in the rear-view mirror and the tourney a few days away from beginning, Jayson Moy and Jim Connelly analyze the bracket.
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Where does your team stand with less than one month left in regular season?

We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's minds. Will my team make the NCAA tournament? Where does it sit...

BRACKETOLOGY EXTRA: Late-night 2OT winner by Maine in Hockey East gives Quinnipiac, Penn State, Michigan increased NCAA tournament odds

Many of you may have been asleep last night by the time that Nolan Renwick redirected Charlie Russell's shot-pass at 11:02 of the second...

BRACKETOLOGY: Who’s for sure in? Who’s on the bubble? Few items still to make official with Selection Sunday five days away

Welcome to Week 10 of Bracketology. Each week from now until Selection Sunday coming up in five days on March 23, I will outline the...

Some location switches make sense for boosting attendance

Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we'll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks...

BRACKETOLOGY: Mapping out 2023 NCAA men’s hockey tournament with regular season winding down, conference playoffs starting

Let me first begin by welcoming back USCHO’s long-time bracketologist Jayson Moy and giving him a cap tip/apology as last week his bracket and...

BRACKETOLOGY: We thought Omaha, UMass could cause problems in the brackets… wait until you see this week

We're back with one of the final editions of Bracketology for the men's Division I college hockey tournament. We have bemoaned over the last few...

What I Believe – Monday Edition

Here's what I believe after this weekend's action and by playing around with the PairWise Predictor. In: Big 10 - Minnesota ECAC - Harvard, Union Hockey East -...
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Here’s our final prediction for the 2015 NCAA tournament brackets

Jayson Moy picks how he thinks the field will be arranged.

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