{"id":97977,"date":"2014-03-21T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/hockey-east-blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2014-03-21T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:59:50","slug":"seven-hockey-east-teams-in-the-ncaa-tournament-thats-not-so-far-fetched-whatsoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/seven-hockey-east-teams-in-the-ncaa-tournament-thats-not-so-far-fetched-whatsoever\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Hockey East teams in the NCAA tournament? That’s not-so-far-fetched whatsoever."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of the New Year, I’ve been talking about a seemingly unlikely scenario that six Hockey East teams could reach the NCAA tournament. Well, in the sense of being greedy, it’s not out of the questions that seven – yes, seven<\/em> - Hockey East teams could punch their NCAA tickets.<\/p>\n

For a couple of teams – namely Northeastern and, to a lesser extent, Vermont – there needs to be few or no upsets today and tomorrow to help their chances. But one upset that won’t crush either team’s hopes is New Hampshire coming away from the Hockey East tournament with the Lamoriello Trophy.<\/p>\n

Should the Wildcats win and the highest team in the PairWise win all of the remaining games, Hockey East would get seven teams into the tournament. Here is what I plugged into the PairWise Predictor to get that result:<\/p>\n

Atlantic Hockey<\/h4>\n