Shuffling No. 3 seeds to keep them in their region
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...
If NCAA tournament started today, who’s in and who’s 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...
Number one seeds
Three of four number one seeds have been claimed.
Yale, North Dakota and Boston College have all claimed number one seeds.
We can go a little...
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...
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...
PairWise Predictor fun: share your crazy D-I college hockey playoff scenarios
Here at USCHO.com, we always have fun finding weird hypothetical Division I college hockey conference playoff scenarios that put teams in or out of the...
What I Believe
Let's play "What I Believe" again.
Before we play, I need to put out a disclaimer. There are a lot of scenarios out there...
BRACKETOLOGY: We thought Omaha, UMass could cause problems in the brackets… wait until you see this week
We're back with one of the final editions of Bracketology for the men's Division I college hockey tournament.
We have bemoaned over the last few...
Three weeks out, and wholesale changes could help attendance
The matchups in the second and third bands don't line up well for geography purposes, so Jayson Moy makes some tweaks.
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...
Six weeks out, and the decisions are in moving and protecting teams
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...
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...
Bracketology: If NCAA tournament began today, Cornell-Arizona State would make intriguing matchup
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).
Here are the 16 teams projected to make the 2018 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
All four No. 4 seeds are automatic qualifiers for the first time since the tournament expanded to 16 teams in 2003.
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.
Bracketology: As conference tournaments roll on, teams looking to secure spots in NCAA tournament
With the conference tournaments in full swing, there are already teams that have finished their seasons while some continue to hold hope that they will automatically go or be selected to be in the NCAA tournament (photo: Jim Rosvold).
An example of how the PairWise changes could affect selection
We're at that time of the year where one thing is on everyone's mind.
Will my team make the NCAA tournament?
Those of you who are...
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...
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...
Three weeks out, and an abundance of NCHC teams presents some competing priorities
With three No. 1 seeds and one No. 4 seed from the NCHC, would the committee favor protecting the 1-vs.-16 matchup or avoiding first-round intra-conference games?
