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After the first day of the 2014 NCAA tournament, 93 percent of the brackets entered in College Hockey Pickem 2014<\/a> are out of the running for the coveted perfect bracket.<\/p>\n

(For the record: No, $1 billion is not on the line here.)<\/p>\n

Of 10,937 completed brackets, only 807 (7 percent) correctly picked all four Friday outcomes.<\/p>\n

You could argue that North Dakota’s upset of Midwest Regional top seed Wisconsin did a lot of people in, but are 4-over-1 upsets really all that hard to see coming anymore?<\/p>\n

We’ve reached nine straight years with a No. 4 seed winning on the opening Friday of the tournament.<\/p>\n

2006:<\/b> Holy Cross 4, Minnesota 3, OT
\n2007:<\/b> Massachusetts 1, Clarkson 0, OT
\n2008:<\/b> Notre Dame 7, New Hampshire 3
\n2009:<\/b> Air Force 2, Michigan 0; Miami 4, Denver 2
\n2010:<\/b> Rochester Institute of Technology 2, Denver 1
\n2011:<\/b> Colorado College 8, Boston College 4
\n2012:<\/b> Cornell 3, Michigan 2, OT
\n2013:<\/b> Yale 3, Minnesota 2, OT
\n2014:<\/b> North Dakota 5, Wisconsin 2<\/p>\n

Of those 10 teams, four took the next step and won the second-round game to advance to the Frozen Four: Notre Dame in 2008, Miami in 2009, RIT in 2010 and Yale in 2013.<\/p>\n

Keep that in mind 51 weeks from now when you’re eyeing up those Friday games in College Hockey Pickem 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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