Bracketology: Taking an early look at how the 2020 NCAA tournament could potentially shake out
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style. It's our weekly look at how we believe the NCAA tournament might look like come selection time, using what we know now (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Bracketology – Final analysis of the selections
Well, the NCAA just announced this year's NCAA Tournament and I hit it on the button.
For an explanation as to how I came about...
What I Believe
Let's play "What I Believe" again.
Before we play, I need to put out a disclaimer. There are a lot of scenarios out there...
Bracketology: With Selection Sunday around the corner, taking one last stab at how the NCAA hockey tournament field will look
We’re inching ever so close to Selection Sunday so let’s take another look at Bracketology.
Right now, there are just nine college hockey games remaining after the NCHC (North Dakota) and Big Ten (Minnesota) crowned their champions. Hockey East has whittled their field to two teams, ECAC is down to three and WCHA and AHA still have their final four to be played.
Looking at the PairWise as 2017 rolls out
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 field of 16 is set; now we work on the brackets
All the games are in, and here are the 16 teams that the PairWise Rankings show will be in the 2015 NCAA tournament, grouped...
Bracketology: Taking a look at how a different season across college hockey will impact the NCAA tournament
It certainly is a strange year in college hockey and thus this year’s Bracketology column regarding the selection and seeding of the men’s NCAA Division I ice hockey tournament will be a little bit different than in the past.
After the results of March 9
Alaska's win keeps it alive, Sunday's game will be interesting for Alaska. Colorado College's win makes it a TUC once more, helping Mass.-Lowell,...
Bracketology Extra: The 16 spots are filled
With Boston College's loss in the Hockey East championship game, the 16 spots are all taken (photo: Melissa Wade).
The field is set
Union's win means that Western Michigan and Michigan State get the last two spots.
It's all over except for the seeding.
See you later with our...
One week out, and the No. 3 seeds pose some challenges
Three teams on the three band are from Hockey East, so some of the moves to avoid intraconference first-round matchups in this week's Bracketology are limited.
Explaining a subtle change to the PairWise
If you follow the PairWise Rankings, you probably know that it's based on the publicly published NCAA men's ice hockey committee's selection criteria.
That criteria,...
One more look at NCAA tournament predictions heading into conference tournament finals
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...
Finally
Finally we have a bracket and finally I nailed the bracket on the money.
But, this one was relatively easy to gather from all the...
Four weeks out, and either Michigan or North Dakota has to move East
This week's edition of Bracketology sees three intra-conference first-round games that need to be addressed.
Two gone, one in: What I Believe, Thursday night edition
Two games on Thursday and now I can update "What I Believe".
The nitty gritty here is that Michigan Tech and St. Cloud are now...
What a difference a game makes
Friday afternoon, we were discussing among the USCHO staff what one game that evening would have the greatest impact on the PairWise Rankings. We...
With two weekends left, here’s how the NCAA tournament brackets could look
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...
PairWise Predictor fun: share your crazy D-I college hockey playoff scenarios
Here at USCHO.com, we always have fun finding weird hypothetical Division I college hockey conference playoff scenarios that put teams in or out of the...
Six weeks out, and the decisions are in moving and protecting teams
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...
