One spot left
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...
The bubble and what I believe
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...
Number one seeds
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...
Maine
I think it will be difficult, if not impossible to get Maine into the tournament.
After the afternoon games, Maine sits at number 18 in...
The first of hopefully many sighs of relief for some teams
With Bemidji State losing, that collective sigh of relief you heard came from Nebraska-Omaha, Rensselaer, Boston University and Maine.
One less chance of someone outside...
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...
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...
I believe we’re in and UNH
So has everyone been playing with the PairWise Predictor non-stop?
If you have I think that you might believe the same things that I believe,...
The bubble
As mentioned before, the bubble, in my eyes, comprises of the following teams:
Notre Dame
Nebraska-Omaha
Western Michigan
Dartmouth
Colorado College
Rensselaer
Boston University
Maine
That's a total of eight teams for a...
A wild weekend
It was a crazy weekend for sure.
But, we're a little closer to finding out who may be moving on in the NCAA Tournament.
We'll keep...
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...
My bracket prediction, 3/12
WMU, Dartmouth and CC are all back in, thanks to wins by all those teams.
You see how volatile it is now. These three teams,...
My Updated Bracket Prediction, March 11
The biggest winner of the night? Rensselaer. A team that played its last game this past Sunday.
The Engineers move into the Top 15 of...
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...
Volatility on the edge of TUC
Robert Morris' loss Thursday night to Canisius had a big effect on North Dakota's PairWise ranking. The Colonials dropped as a Team Under Consideration...
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,...
An example of how the PairWise changes could affect selection
We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's mind.
Will my team make the NCAA tournament?
Those of you who are...
Computer rankings: no endorsement deal
We've gotten a few emails from readers who have asked us, "Why doesn't USCHO endorse KRACH?"
USCHO doesn't endorse KRACH or, for that matter, any...
PairWise, RPI and KRACH: Sorting things out
Yale's No. 1 ranking in last Monday's USCHO.com Division I poll certainly generated a lot of controversy, at least judging by the comments left...
