What I Believe – Friday night edition
After Friday's games, here is What I Believe.
Fourteen spots are taken, leaving two at-large spots. These are the teams that are in:
Minnesota State
North Dakota
Boston...
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....
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...
Bracket Analysis: Success against best teams in your league guided NCAA Selection Committee; travel wasn’t major consideration
With Selection Sunday now in the rear-view mirror and the tourney a few days away from beginning, Jayson Moy and Jim Connelly analyze the bracket.
What I Believe – Monday, 3/16
One week until the selections and it's time to summarize things in the segment I like to call "What I Believe."
This segment gives a...
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...
Thoughts on how the committee came up with the 2018 NCAA men’s hockey tournament bracket
The two major themes here seemed to be attendance and proximity.
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...
BRACKETOLOGY: With Boston College, Michigan State officially in, rest of 2025 NCAA men’s hockey tournament still being fleshed out
Welcome to Week 5 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the...
What I believe on Saturday morning
Based upon everything that we know, and how we've transcribed it to our PWR calculator, this is what I believe as of Saturday going...
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...
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...
One game left, two scenarios, two brackets
There's one more game left to be played and it will decide which team will be the last to make it into the NCAA...
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...
Listen: USCHO’s Jim Connelly discusses the PairWise on The Pipeline Show
USCHO's Jim Connelly joined on TSN 1260's The Pipeline Show on Saturday to dissect the PairWise Rankings.
Four weeks out, and this is beginning to be a trend
With no movement in and out of the tournament field in the last four weeks, Jayson Moy sees some familiar discussions in this week's Bracketology.
Three weeks out, and we can build a better West Regional
In this week's edition of Bracketology, Jayson Moy sees Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota playing in St. Paul.
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...
The field of 16 is set; now we work on the brackets
All the games are in, and here are the 16 teams that the PairWise Rankings show will be in the 2015 NCAA tournament, grouped...
Explaining a subtle change to the PairWise
If you follow the PairWise Rankings, you probably know that it's based on the publicly published NCAA men's ice hockey committee's selection criteria.
That criteria,...
