Here’s what I believe after this weekend’s action and by playing around with the PairWise Predictor.
In:
Big 10 – Minnesota
ECAC – Harvard, Union
Hockey East – Lowell, BU
NCHC – Denver, UMD, Western Michigan
WCHA – Winner of Bowling Green/Michigan Tech
That makes nine teams in, leaving seven spots left.
There are 15 teams for those seven spots
Atlantic Hockey – Canisius, Air Force, Army, Robert Morris
Big 10 – Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State
ECAC – Cornell, Quinnipiac
Hockey East – BC, Notre Dame, Providence
NCHC – North Dakota
Teams that need to win its Championship in order to get in (seven):
Atlantic Hockey – Canisius, Army, Robert Morris
Big 10 – Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State
ECAC – Quinnipiac
Teams that can still get in at-large (eight):
Atlantic Hockey – Air Force (How? All top seeds win, except that one of Penn State or Ohio State must lose on Thursday and Air Force must win on Friday)
Big 10 – Ohio State, Penn State
ECAC – Cornell
Hockey East – BC, Notre Dame, Providence
NCHC – North Dakota
