Bracketology
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 in the PairWise Rankings (PWR)? Those of you that are veterans of the college hockey scene know that it is all about the PairWise Rankings. This is USCHO’s numerical approach … Read more
It’s time for the final Bracketology of the season. Here, I will predict how I think the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee will think and what the bracket will look like when it is announced on Sunday. First, here is my predicted bracket and then I’ll explain how I got there afterward: East … Read more
With all games played, here are the teams projected to be in the 2016 NCAA Division I men’s tournament, grouped by seed: Quinnipiac St. Cloud State North Dakota Providence Boston College Denver Michigan UMass-Lowell Boston University Yale Harvard Notre Dame Northeastern Minnesota-Duluth Rochester Institute of Technology Ferris State The PairWise Rankings mimic the selection process … Read more
Quinnipiac is the overall number one seed. A St. Cloud win sends it to St. Paul, else North Dakota is the in St. Paul as the overall number 2. Providence is overall No. 4 Minnesota needs a win to get in, else out. UMD needs a win or Minnesota loss to get in. Yale needs … Read more
As we await the final seven games before selection Sunday, here’s where we stand.
Hockey East has two teams in the second back and two in the third band, so there are few options to keep them from playing each other in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
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.