BRACKETOLOGY: With Selection Sunday one month away, teams starting to solidify spots in 2025 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
Welcome to Week 7 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the...
One spot left
With Michigan and Dartmouth's wins in the third-place games, the picture becomes very clear.
There's one spot left, as UNO and CC have now clinched...
The bubble: Who to root for?
So you're a fan of a team on the bubble, who do you root for?
The teams on the bubble at the moment are:
Cornell
Western Michigan
Michigan...
What I Believe – Thursday Night Edition
The ramifications of Ohio State and Penn State's wins on Thursday night:
- Michigan and Michigan State being eliminated from a possible bid
- Air Force...
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.
Six weeks out, and there’s only so much room in the East for No. 3 seeds
Providence, Harvard and Boston College all surely would like to play in either Providence or Manchester, but only two can with the way the seedings shake out today.
BRACKETOLOGY: Taking one last shot at NCAA tournament seedings ahead of conference title games this weekend
Here we are with the final Bracketology prior to Saturday night’s championship games where the final field will be set. Jayson and I are...
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...
Seven weeks out, and the bracket is intriguing
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...
10 weeks out, and we start with trouble bringing a team back East
Bracketology's first edition of 2015 has four teams in the NCAA tournament from both Hockey East and the NCHC.
Bracketology: Providence out, Harvard in if NCAA tournament started today
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
BRACKETOLOGY: Mapping out 2023 NCAA men’s hockey tournament with regular season winding down, conference playoffs starting
Let me first begin by welcoming back USCHO’s long-time bracketologist Jayson Moy and giving him a cap tip/apology as last week his bracket and...
What I Believe – Monday Edition
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 -...
BRACKETOLOGY: Three Hockey East No. 1 seeds, UMass falling to a No. 4 seed complicate this week’s pairings beyond belief
A conundrum is defined as a confusing and difficult problem or question.
This week, as we approach how to seed the NCAA men's Division I...
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...
PairWise Predictor 2012 is live: share your scenarios
With the final four teams set in each conference -- or six, in the case of the WCHA -- USCHO.com's PairWise Predictor is now...
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 a difference a game makes
Friday afternoon, we were discussing among the USCHO staff what one game that evening would have the greatest impact on the PairWise Rankings. We...
Bracketology Extra: Here are the 16 teams projected to make the 2019 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
The NCAA tournament selection show is scheduled to air on ESPNU at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
What this weekend’s games mean for the NCAA tournament
Let’s take a look at some of the teams left in the hunt for the NCAA tournament and what the implications of this coming weekend’s results might bring (photo: Candace Horgan).
