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Minnesota State’s Dryden McKay shakes hands with Harvard’s Austin Wong after their game Thursday in the Albany Regional (photo: Rich Gagnon).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan might be the top overall seed in the 2022 NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament but Minnesota State was on the last line of more brackets than the Wolverines.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks were picked to win the NCAA championship in 500 of the 2,309 valid entries to USCHO’s Bracket Challenge Contest<\/a>. Michigan was the choice in 463 entries.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the championship picks broke down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Team<\/th>Picks<\/th>Pct.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Minnesota State<\/td>500<\/td>21.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michigan<\/td>463<\/td>20.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota<\/td>303<\/td>13.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota Duluth<\/td>254<\/td>11.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Dakota<\/td>238<\/td>10.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denver<\/td>175<\/td>7.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Western Michigan<\/td>96<\/td>4.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UMass<\/td>68<\/td>2.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quinnipiac<\/td>56<\/td>2.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Cloud State<\/td>51<\/td>2.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michigan Tech<\/td>28<\/td>1.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notre Dame<\/td>28<\/td>1.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northeastern<\/td>22<\/td>1.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UMass Lowell<\/td>18<\/td>0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harvard<\/td>8<\/td>0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American International<\/td>1<\/td>0.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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