The ramifications of Ohio State and Penn State’s wins on Thursday night:<\/p>\n
– Michigan and Michigan State being eliminated from a possible bid<\/p>\n
– Air Force can now no longer be an at-large team and Atlantic Hockey will only get one team into the tournament.<\/p>\n
Let’s summarize after Thursday’s games.<\/p>\n
In:<\/p>\n
Atlantic Hockey – Winner of the Tournament<\/p>\n
Big 10 – Minnesota<\/p>\n
ECAC – Harvard, Union<\/p>\n
Hockey East – Lowell, BU<\/p>\n
NCHC – Denver, UMD, Western Michigan<\/p>\n
WCHA – Winner of Bowling Green\/Michigan Tech<\/p>\n
That makes ten teams in, leaving six spots left.<\/p>\n
There are nine teams for those six spots<\/p>\n
Big 10 – Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn State<\/p>\n
ECAC – Cornell, Quinnipiac<\/p>\n
Hockey East – BC, Notre Dame, Providence<\/p>\n
NCHC – North Dakota<\/p>\n
Teams that need to win its Championship in order to get in (two, aside from Atlantic Hockey and WCHA):<\/p>\n
Big 10 – Wisconsin<\/p>\n
ECAC – Quinnipiac<\/p>\n
Teams that can still get in at-large (seven):<\/p>\n
Big 10 – Ohio State, Penn State<\/p>\n
ECAC – Cornell<\/p>\n
Hockey East – BC, Notre Dame, Providence<\/p>\n
NCHC – North Dakota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 can now no longer be an at-large team and Atlantic Hockey will only get one team into the tournament. Let’s summarize after Thursday’s games. In: Atlantic Hockey – Winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n