Bracketology
When the conference tournament quarterfinal round wrapped up Sunday night, we rolled out our PairWise Predictor, which lets you see how the rankings react based on results you enter for the final 21 games before selection Sunday.
We have a lot of ramifications in terms of what would happen depending upon which teams win series this weekend.
We’re onto the quarterfinals in every conference except the Big Ten.
Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan Tech moved into the top 14 of the PairWise Rankings after last weekend.
North Dakota moved up to No. 2 overall, which would put it into the West Regional in St. Paul, where it likely would face Minnesota in the first round.
Since the field expanded to 16 teams in 2003, 93 percent of teams ranked in the top 12 of the PairWise Rankings on March 1 have made the NCAA tournament.
The matchups in the second and third bands don’t line up well for geography purposes, so Jayson Moy makes some tweaks.
USCHO’s Jim Connelly joined on TSN 1260’s The Pipeline Show on Saturday to dissect the PairWise Rankings.
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.
In 13 years of the 16-team NCAA tournament, no team in the top six of the PairWise Rankings at the end of the Beanpot has missed being in the field.
In this week’s Bracketology, Jayson Moy has some cleaning up to do for attendance reasons, but it’s the same 16 teams in the field for the third straight week.
In the 13 seasons since the NCAA tournament field expanded to 16 teams, no team that was ranked No. 1 through No. 4 in the PairWise Rankings at the start of February has failed to qualify.
Jayson Moy breaks down how the brackets might shake out this week in Bracketology.
One change for attendance reasons, and Jayson Moy has his projected bracket for this week.
In this week’s Bracketology, Jayson Moy moves some matchups to different regionals to try to help the potential for bigger crowds.
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.
In Jayson Moy’s first edition of Bracketology for 2016, there are a few teams that need to be moved around in the bracket.
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.
A couple quick thoughts after seeing how the NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey committee set the brackets for the 2015 tournament.
Jayson Moy picks how he thinks the field will be arranged.