It’s Big Ten playoff hockey time, and while top-seed Notre Dame watches to see who advances from the first weekend of play, everyone else will try to survive a best-of-three series to face off in single-elimination semifinal action next weekend (photo: Jim Rosvold/USCHO.com).
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: Bradley K. Olson).
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.
Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Feb. 19 fared over the Feb. 23-24 weekend (photo: Omar Phillips).
Ryan Poehling’s goal in the third period broke a 2-2 tie and lifted No. 1 St. Cloud State to a win over No. 3 Denver, clinching the Penrose Cup as NCHC regular season champion in the process. Northeastern blanked New Hampshire in the final home game for UNH coach Dick Umile, who is retiring at the end of the year. (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
No. 20 Boston College won its 16th Hockey East title. No. 2 Cornell clinched the ECAC championship while No. 4 Minnesota State won its third in four years in the WCHA. Meanwhile, No. 3 Denver cut into No. 1 St. Cloud State’s lead in the race for the NCHC’s Penrose Cup (photo: Melissa Wade).
Like every team in Atlantic Hockey, it’s been an up-and-down season for the Rochester Institute of Technology (photo: Omar Phillips).
There always seems to be some sort of drama in the final week of the WCHA’s regular season. This year is no different (photo: Candace Horgan).
Multiple Big Ten teams have enjoyed winning or unbeaten streaks this season, but since the calendar has turned to February, stringing victories together has become a rare occurrence (photo: Rachel Lewis).
The results might not be there, but Rensselaer coach Dave Smith has been impressed with the work his team has put in as the regular season draws to a close this weekend (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Much of the attention has gone to the race for the Hockey East regular season title, and deservedly so, but there’s also the race for one of the top five spots in the standings and its attendant first-round bye. Connecticut has put itself firmly in that race (photo: Melissa Wade).
Near the middle of January, defending national champion Denver was in a rut, having gone 2-3-2. Since then, Denver has gone 6-1-2 (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
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: Melissa Wade).
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 (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Feb. 12 fared over the Feb. 16-18 weekend (photo: Jim Rosvold/USCHO.com).
In a battle of top-10s, No. 6 Ohio State and No. 10 Minnesota tied 1-1, while Colorado College defeated No. 2 Denver 1-0 and No. 4 Cornell held off Yale 3-2. (photo: Melissa Wade/USCHO.com).
Dartmouth swept No. 7 Clarkson for just the second time ever with a 3-2 win tonight. In other action, UConn toppled BU in overtime, and Michigan upset No. 1 Notre Dame (photo: Melissa Wade).
As a tribute to Bob DeFelice’s 50 years as baseball coach and more than a quarter century as the director of athletics at Bentley, the ice rink at the new Bentley Arena will be known as the Coach DeFelice Ice Rink (photo: Bentley Athletics).
Ten players who excel both on and off the ice were selected Friday as finalists for the 2017-18 Senior CLASS Award (photo: Jim Rosvold).
The expectations for Princeton were high coming into the 2017-18 season after a respectable seventh-place finish in 2016-17 (photo: Shelley M. Szwast).