My Updated Bracket Prediction, March 11

The biggest winner of the night?  Rensselaer.  A team that played its last game this past Sunday. The Engineers move into the Top 15 of...

Just days out, and there’s quite a pack on the bubble

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...

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...

PairWise Predictor: What are 2014’s NCAA playoff permutations?

With the weekend's games now (finally) in the books, USCHO.com's PairWise Predictor is live. What's the PairWise Predictor? It's your opportunity to test out your...

Just days out, and Hockey East teams pack the middle of the field

Hockey East has two teams in the second back and two in the third band, so there are few options to keep them from playing each other in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

BRACKETOLOGY FINAL: After plenty of stress and two hosts qualifying for the field, seeding this tournament is easier than you’d believe

For two months now, I bemoaned what would happen if two hosts - Omaha and Massachusetts - qualified for the field. The thought of having...
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Final Bracketology: A prediction for the 2018 NCAA men’s hockey tournament

Jayson Moy gives his prediction of what the NCAA tournament bracket will look like when it's revealed on Sunday (photo: Melissa Wade).

Working things out before conference championship weekend

Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and this is the last one until our final predictions for the bracket late Saturday night. If...
7 Jan 17: The University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs host the Colorado College Tigers in an NCHC match up at Amsoil Arena in Duluth, MN. (Jim Rosvold)

Checking out the latest PairWise Rankings, Jan. 11

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...

Debating the site for the overall No. 1 seed

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...

The PairWise Predictor, and where we stand entering conference championship weekend

When the conference tournament quarterfinal round wrapped up Sunday night, we rolled out our PairWise Predictor, which lets you see how the rankings react based on results you enter for the final 21 games before selection Sunday.

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).

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...

After Thursday

After two WCHA games on Thursday night, here is basically what happened.  Colorado College bolstered its chances of getting into the tournament, in turn...

The first of hopefully many sighs of relief for some teams

With Bemidji State losing, that collective sigh of relief you heard came from Nebraska-Omaha, Rensselaer, Boston University and Maine. One less chance of someone outside...
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Four weeks out, and a geography question affects where a No. 1 seed goes

Boston University is almost equidistant from Manchester and Providence, so its placement probably will come down to where attendance could use more of a boost.

Bracketology: As college hockey playoffs kick into high gear, which teams are on the bubble, and which teams are locks for NCAA tournament bids?

We’re three weeks into Braceketology and we’re already seeing some conference tournament results that are having lasting impact. Last weekend, it was Ohio State losing...

After the Beanpot, the top six historically have been NCAA locks

In 13 years of the 16-team NCAA tournament, no team in the top six of the PairWise Rankings at the end of the Beanpot has missed being in the field.

With four NCAA tournament spots open, here’s what’s at stake in Saturday’s conference title games

Twelve teams are locked into the 2022 Division I men's NCAA tournament. Here's Saturday's conference championship schedule and what can happen to get the final four teams settled.

After the WCHA Quarterfinals

So how do I see it now? It shakes out quite well... Providence 16 Wisconsin vs. 1 Quinnipiac 12 Minnesota State vs. 6 Massachusetts-Lowell Grand Rapids 14 Western Michigan vs....

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