Bracketology: Taking a look at how the NCAA tournament would be seeded if ’19-20 season ended today

For years, you have read as Jayson Moy has provided you with breakdowns on the PairWise Rankings and how, from week-to-week, that might impact how the NCAA tournament is seeded. His bracketology has become famous, often duplicated, though rarely ever matched. Jayson and Jim Connelly have decided that this season, we’re taking it to a new level (photo: Rich Gagnon).

Nine weeks out, and some teams can’t get closer to home

We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's minds. Will my team make the NCAA tournament? Those of you that are...
(Tim Brule)

Bracketology: If NCAA tournament started today, UMass Lowell out, Bowling Green in

It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style (photo: Harvard Athletics).

The field is set

Union's win means that Western Michigan and Michigan State get the last two spots. It's all over except for the seeding. See you later with our...

BRACKETOLOGY: Getting closer to season’s end, the UMass conundrum is solved, but other issues lie ahead in seeding the NCAA field

Welcome back to Bracketology. If you're ever heard the term of going down a rabbit's hole, that's what I am facing this week. I began...

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: How does moving Minnesota, St. Cloud State out of same region potentially affect 2023 NCAA tournament?

Editor’s note: This was written prior to Wednesday’s Hockey East first-round playoff games and thus could be altered if individual teams move in the...

Simple Math?

Maybe it wasn't as complicated as we all made it out to be.  It's as simple as that. The committee laid it out, just as...

Bracketology: Time ticking down on which teams will qualify for 2020 NCAA hockey tournament

Tournament time is starting in college hockey and that means that the hopes and dreams of some teams will be dashed and some will continue on. Some are seemingly safe, while others know that it is win or go home time (photo: David Faulkner - SPX SPORTS).
Robert Morris wins the 2016 Three Rivers Classic (Omar Phillips)

Looking at the PairWise as 2017 rolls out

We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's minds. Will my team make the NCAA tournament? Where does it sit...

CCHA: Minimum/maximum

So, play with the PairWise Predictor, and see what fun you can have. For example, the CCHA can have a minimum of three teams in...

Finally

Finally we have a bracket and finally I nailed the bracket on the money. But, this one was relatively easy to gather from all the...

Two weeks out, and one swap creates a regional of familiar foes

The way Jayson Moy breaks it down this week, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota all would be in the West Regional in St. Paul, Minn.

BRACKETOLOGY: First edition proves that there might be some extreme difficulties in seeding this season

Welcome back to Bracketology, where we try to simulate the process that the NCAA Men's Division I Hockey Championship committee will go through on...

BRACKETOLOGY: A correction, and a look at movement as we move closer to season’s end for college hockey

Let me begin with an error correction, one of which was careless on my part: North Dakota is not the host team this year in...

What this weekend means: March 11, 2016

We have a lot of ramifications in terms of what would happen depending upon which teams win series this weekend.

Our final prediction for the 2012 NCAA tournament

Let's put the bracket prediction down first, and then we'll explain how we got there after that. My predicted NCAA tournament bracket is as follows: West...

Nine weeks out, and we can get a good regional bracket

The way Jayson Moy works out the bracket, there are four ECAC Hockey-Hockey East matchups in the first round.
Canisius players celebrate a third period goal in a 3-1 win at RIT (Omar Phillips)

Start of February sees more tweaks to PairWise Rankings

We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's minds. Will my team make the NCAA tournament? Where does it sit...

Historically, PairWise’s top 3 entering league quarterfinals are solid bets to stay as No. 1 seeds

We're onto the quarterfinals in every conference except the Big Ten.

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