Bracketology

So you’re a fan of a team on the bubble, who do you root for? The teams on the bubble at the moment are: Cornell Western Michigan Michigan State Northern Michigan Merrimack Who do you root for? Here are the simplest ways to root. Cornell No one but your own Big Red. A win or … Read more

After Friday night we can welcome four more teams into the tournament, and tell you that there are six teams battling for three spots in the NCAA Tournament. The Locks (13) 13 teams are now in. Boston College Michigan Minnesota-Duluth Minnesota Boston University Ferris State Miami North Dakota Union Massachusetts-Lowell Denver Maine RIT/Air Force The … Read more

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 eliminated from the NCAA tournament and North Dakota is in with at least an at-large bid. And with the winner of the WCHA now looking like it will be in … Read more

Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and this is the last one until our final predictions for the bracket late Saturday night. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams are selected to participate in … Read more

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 and I don’t have an algorithm, or computer program to look at it (though someone should write one for me), so “What I Believe” is only what I have taken a … Read more

So, play with the PairWise Predictor, and see what fun you can have. For example, the CCHA can have a minimum of three teams in the tournament, but what is the maximum? I have not been able to find a way to get seven CCHA teams into the tournament. Six, yes, but seven? Not yet. … Read more

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 before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more

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 before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more

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 before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more

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 before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more

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 before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen teams … Read more

Welcome back to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we’ll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks before the field is announced. If you want to skip the inner workings and get to the results of the analysis, then click here. Here are the facts: • Sixteen … Read more

In the first installment of Bracketology for 2012, Jayson Moy finds he has to move around some games between No. 1 seeds and No. 4 seeds.

An old friend of mine, a retired sports information director, beats everyone on his list to the punch by sending out his Christmas cards early. He beat his own record this year: I received his card yesterday. (Thanks, Roger!) We’ve sent out our Christmas card to statistical fanatics a bit early, too. It’s way too … Read more

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 information out there. I think the committee walked into the room and five minutes later they were finished. I have no complaints at all.  The process worked exactly like the … Read more

Our field is set. Air Force and Rensselaer get the final two spots. The teams in the field: Yale North Dakota Boston College Miami Michigan Merrimack Denver Union Minnesota-Duluth Western Michigan Notre Dame Nebraska-Omaha New Hampshire Colorado College Rensselaer Air Force There you have it. Bracket prediction to come.

With Michigan and Dartmouth’s wins in the third-place games, the picture becomes very clear. There’s one spot left, as UNO and CC have now clinched their places in the tournament. It comes down to Cornell or Rensselaer. A Cornell win puts the Big Red into the tournament, a Cornell loss puts Rensselaer into the tournament.

Let’s get on to the nitty gritty shall we? Here is what I believe: Yale, North Dakota, Boston College, Miami, Denver, Merrimack, Michigan, Union, Minnesota-Duluth, Notre Dame, Western Michigan, New Hampshire and either RIT or Air Force  are all in. That’s 13 teams. There are three spots left out there, and those three spots will … Read more

Three of four number one seeds have been claimed. Yale, North Dakota and Boston College have all claimed number one seeds. We can go a little further and say that Yale will be in Bridgeport and North Dakota will most likely be in Green Bay (there are strange situations which might not put North Dakota … Read more