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Selection Sunday is just a few days away, which means the NCAA picture for most of the schools is getting quite clear. We’ve mentioned it elsewhere this week, but we can say with full certainty that the top 10 teams in the PairWise have secured their spots: Minnesota State, Michigan, Denver, North Dakota, Minnesota, Western … Read more
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Paula: Two weeks ago, Dan, you asked me about potential chaos in the Big Ten playoffs and I said that I didn’t foresee anything out of the ordinary. I also said … Read more
Each week during the season, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1. It was a good weekend for your favorites Take a look at the top 10 in the DCU/USCHO.com poll, and it was a pretty good week. Only two teams didn’t advance – No. … Read more
Sammy Walker scored late in regulation as Minnesota advanced past Penn State to earn a date with Michigan next Saturday in the Big Ten title game (photo: Jim Rosvold)
Jack Donato redirected a shot two minutes into sudden-death overtime to complete one of the craziest comeback for Harvard, which scored three goals in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime in a 4-3 win over RPI (Photo: Edward Jacobs/Team Shred)
No. 8 Notre Dame (+180) could be the juiciest underdog hearing into the second weekend of conference tournament action (File photo: Jim Rosvold)
Boston College celebrates after Marc McLaughlin scored at 10:56 of overtime to lift the Eagles to a 4-3 first-round victory over New Hampshire and a date with top-seeded Northeastern in Saturday’s quarterfinal round of the Hockey East tournament (photo: Boston College athletics)
We’re three weeks into Braceketology and we’re already seeing some conference tournament results that are having lasting impact. Last weekend, it was Ohio State losing its series in three games to Penn State. The Buckeyes have no games remaining to change their PairWise possibilities, and right now OSU sits right on the tournament bubble – … Read more
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Jim: I don’t remember, Ed, a weekend as crazy as this past one was. A Hockey East regular season that went down to the last seconds, a co-championship in the NCHC … Read more
Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1. Everything came together in the last few seconds Heading into the last weekend of Hockey East action, Northeastern needed everything to line up just right for the Huskies to win their first-ever regular-season title. First, Boston … Read more
No. 7 Notre Dame survived a scare from Wisconsin in its best-of-three Big Ten quarterfinal series with a 4-2 victory on Sunday (Photo: Fighting Irish Media)
Ohio State, which won the WCHA tournament in overtime on Sunday, is one of four schools that will host regional sites in the Women’s National Collegiate ice hockey championship, beginning on Thursday (photo: Ohio State Athletics)
Northeastern celebrated its first-ever Hockey East regular season title, scoring the clinching goal with 9.6 seconds remaining for a 1-0 victory over Merrimack (photo: Northeastern Athletics)
Despite a feverish pitch in the closing seconds, Boston College hung on to upset No. 9 Massachusetts, 2-1, keeping the Minutemen from clinching the Hockey East regular-season title (photo: Rich Gagnon)
I said it last week in this space, that if you can pick the right upset, there is a lot of money to be made this time of year. A week ago, Cornell, a team that pretty much most who follow the ECAC know is one of the top teams, knocked off Quinnipiac at a … Read more
As we approach the home stretch of the college hockey season, we’re seeing some teams really solidify their NCAA tournament positions. We can say certainly that Minnesota State, Michigan and Minnesota all have punched their NCAA tickets and Denver, North Dakota, Western Michigan Notre Dame and St. Cloud State are all virtual locks (though my … Read more
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Dan: Well, everyone, we finally made it, and we’re here. March. The glorious month when the games start counting for real, and the postseason starts. No better way to ring it … Read more
Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1. Irish sweep Michigan Notre Dame wrapped up the regular season with a bang over the weekend, taking a pair from second-ranked Michigan by scores of 4-1 and 2-1 at home. The Irish clinched the No. 3 … Read more
No. 13 Boston University jumped to an early 3-0 lead and never looked back, earning a 6-3 victory against archival Boston College (Photo: Robert Branning/BU Athletics)
Goals came easy for Minnesota, which skated to an important 5-0 win over Wisconsin to take control of the Big Ten standings (photo: Jim Rosvold)