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The Quinnipiac University Bobcats and University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks play for the 2016 D1 National Championship on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. (Melissa Wade)

Never too early to start prognosticating the 2017 NCAA tournament

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...

With Notre Dame’s win, here’s our final prediction for the 2013 NCAA tournament

Notre Dame's win over Michigan in the CCHA championship game gives Yale an at-large bid and keeps the Wolverines out of the tournament for...

Bracketology: Taking a look at how a different season across college hockey will impact the NCAA tournament

It certainly is a strange year in college hockey and thus this year’s Bracketology column regarding the selection and seeding of the men’s NCAA Division I ice hockey tournament will be a little bit different than in the past.

BRACKETOLOGY: Who’s for sure in? Who’s on the bubble? Few items still to make official with Selection Sunday five days away

Welcome to Week 10 of Bracketology. Each week from now until Selection Sunday coming up in five days on March 23, I will outline the...

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...

Four weeks out, and either Michigan or North Dakota has to move East

This week's edition of Bracketology sees three intra-conference first-round games that need to be addressed.

PairWise, RPI and KRACH: Sorting things out

Yale's No. 1 ranking in last Monday's USCHO.com Division I poll certainly generated a lot of  controversy, at least judging by the comments left...

PairWise history tells us what to extrapolate from the rankings at the start of February

In the 13 seasons since the NCAA tournament field expanded to 16 teams, no team that was ranked No. 1 through No. 4 in the PairWise Rankings at the start of February has failed to qualify.
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Eight weeks out, and attendance dictates some movement

In this week's Bracketology, Jayson Moy moves some matchups to different regionals to try to help the potential for bigger crowds.
Mercyhurst players celebrate a win over RIT and clinch the Atlantic Hockey regular season title (2018 Omar Phillips)

Looking at the latest possibilities shows Penn State in, Omaha out

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).

Eight weeks out, and intraconference matchups cause a headache

With five teams from both ECAC Hockey and Hockey East in the NCAA tournament bracket and host teams locked into a regional, things get tough this week.
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Bracketology: Providence out, Harvard in if NCAA tournament started today

It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style (photo: Bradley K. Olson).

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...

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: 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).

BRACKETOLOGY: First edition proves that there might be some extreme difficulties in seeding this season

Welcome back to Bracketology, where we try to simulate the process that the NCAA Men's Division I Hockey Championship committee will go through on...
(Tim Brule)

Bracketology: If NCAA tournament started today, UMass Lowell out, Bowling Green in

It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style (photo: Harvard Athletics).
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Bracketology Extra: The 16 spots are filled

With Boston College's loss in the Hockey East championship game, the 16 spots are all taken (photo: Melissa Wade).

Bracketology: Time ticking down on which teams will qualify for 2020 NCAA hockey tournament

Tournament time is starting in college hockey and that means that the hopes and dreams of some teams will be dashed and some will continue on. Some are seemingly safe, while others know that it is win or go home time (photo: David Faulkner - SPX SPORTS).
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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.

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