The dilemma: Protect the overall No. 1 or keep top seeds close to home?
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we'll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks...
What I Believe: After Saturday afternoon
After this afternoon's games, it's boiled down to this:
Teams That Are Now In (14):
Quinnipiac
Minnesota
Massachusetts-Lowell
Miami
Notre Dame
Boston College
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Denver
Niagara
Minnesota State
Canisius/Mercyhurst
Brown/Union
Colorado College/Wisconsin
Teams That Must Win To...
Bracketology: If NCAA tourney began today, St. Cloud State, UMass, Ohio State, Quinnipiac would be top four seeds
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: Thom Kendall).
Final Bracketology: One last look figuring out which 16 teams will play for the 2021 national college hockey championship
We’ve seen all six conference tournaments completed and here are both Jayson's and Jim’s fields, as well as how they place them into regionals.
It’s...
BRACKETOLOGY EXTRA: Defining the PairWise bubble and what would need to happen for bubble teams to make it
After this weekend's games, the PairWise bubble became very well defined. So much so that the three teams on the bubble know exactly what...
Four weeks out, and either Michigan or North Dakota has to move East
This week's edition of Bracketology sees three intra-conference first-round games that need to be addressed.
Who’s the host team at the East Regional in Albany?
If you've followed Bracketology for a while, you probably know that a team that hosts a regional has to be placed there if it's selected for the NCAA tournament.
Bracketology: What we know entering conference championship Saturday
Three teams are vying for two spots in the NCAA tournament on the day before selection Sunday (photo: Melissa Wade).
How are the 3 and 4 seeds placed in Manchester or Providence?
I had a pretty good question from Matt Wellens the other day. He asked me how are the 3 and 4 seeds placed...
After the results of March 15
First things is first. For those of you looking at the PWR and the RPI, you will see that Colorado College is at...
Looking at the latest possibilities shows Penn State in, Omaha out
It's time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style. It's our weekly look at how I believe the NCAA tournament might look like come selection time, using what we know now (photo: Omar Phillips).
Making a case for attendance-based switches
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we'll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks...
BRACKETOLOGY: Big Ten hockey playoff upsets skew PairWise rankings somewhat as we keep an eye on potential Allentown regional
Welcome to Week 9 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the...
