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Bracketology Extra: Here are the 16 teams projected to make the 2019 NCAA men’s hockey tournament

The NCAA tournament selection show is scheduled to air on ESPNU at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
(THOMAS KENDALL/THOM KENDALL FOR UMASS ATHLETICS photo: UMass Athletics)

Bracketology: If NCAA tourney began today, St. Cloud State, UMass, Ohio State, Quinnipiac would be top four seeds

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: Thom Kendall).

Bracketology: Which bubble teams have a shot at playing for an NCAA hockey national championship?

The topsy-turvy world of college hockey is seeing the bubble change rapidly from week to week. There are so many games and results that are affecting what is happening at the moment (photo: Craig Houtz/Penn State Athletics).

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.

What I believe on Saturday morning

Based upon everything that we know, and how we've transcribed it to our PWR calculator, this is what I believe as of Saturday going...
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Four weeks out, and this is beginning to be a trend

With no movement in and out of the tournament field in the last four weeks, Jayson Moy sees some familiar discussions in this week's Bracketology.
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One week out, and some new at-large teams appear in the field

Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan Tech moved into the top 14 of the PairWise Rankings after last weekend.

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,...
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Final Bracketology: A prediction for the 2018 NCAA men’s hockey tournament

Jayson Moy gives his prediction of what the NCAA tournament bracket will look like when it's revealed on Sunday (photo: Melissa Wade).

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.

After the results of March 8

How do I see it right now? Providence 16 Wisconsin vs. 1 Quinnipiac 9 Boston College vs. 8 Denver Grand Rapids 15 Notre Dame vs. 2 Minnesota 12 Western Michigan...

Who’s the host team at the East Regional in Albany?

If you've followed Bracketology for a while, you probably know that a team that hosts a regional has to be placed there if it's selected for the NCAA tournament.

Seven weeks out, and there’s a path to a good bracket for geography

St. Cloud State can get moved to St. Paul, and Northeastern can stay in Massachusetts.
27 Jan 17: The Saint Cloud State University Huskies play against the Bemidji State University Beavers in a quarterfinal game of the North Star College Cup at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN. (Jim Rosvold)

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...

What I Believe: Saturday morning

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...

After the results of March 2

Headed into one game on Sunday, here's how I see it after Saturday's games. Providence 16 Alaska vs. 1 Quinnipiac 12 Yale vs. 8 Minnesota State Grand Rapids 14...

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...

Field of 16 Set

The field of 16 is set: Atlantic Hockey - Air Force Big Ten - Minnesota, Penn State, Ohio State ECAC Hockey - Harvard, Union, Cornell Hockey East -...

A reaction to the committee’s bracketing decisions for the NCAA tournament

A couple quick thoughts after seeing how the NCAA Division I men's ice hockey committee set the brackets for the 2015 tournament.

Bracketology: Taking a look at how the NCAA tournament would be seeded if ’19-20 season ended today

For years, you have read as Jayson Moy has provided you with breakdowns on the PairWise Rankings and how, from week-to-week, that might impact how the NCAA tournament is seeded. His bracketology has become famous, often duplicated, though rarely ever matched. Jayson and Jim Connelly have decided that this season, we’re taking it to a new level (photo: Rich Gagnon).

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