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Bracketology: With postseason starting, two spots maximum up for grabs for upcoming NCAA hockey tournament

As we approach the home stretch of the college hockey season, we’re seeing some teams really solidify their NCAA tournament positions. We can say certainly...
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Nine weeks out, and conferences, geography come into play

The brackets show three intra-conference matchups that need to be addressed.

Following the criteria shuffles some first-round matchups

In the first installment of Bracketology for 2012, Jayson Moy finds he has to move around some games between No. 1 seeds and No. 4 seeds.
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Five weeks out, and the field remains the same

In this week's Bracketology, Jayson Moy has some cleaning up to do for attendance reasons, but it's the same 16 teams in the field for the third straight week.
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Here’s our final prediction for the 2015 NCAA tournament brackets

Jayson Moy picks how he thinks the field will be arranged.

Nine weeks out, and we can get a good regional bracket

The way Jayson Moy works out the bracket, there are four ECAC Hockey-Hockey East matchups in the first round.
08 Dec 17: Justin Baudry (Bemidji State - 29), Charlie Combs (Bemidji State - 11). The Bemidji State University Beavers host the Northern Michigan University Wildcats in a WCHA Conference matchup at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, MN. (Jim Rosvold)

This week’s movement shows Northern Michigan 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: Jim Rosvold).

Simple Math?

Maybe it wasn't as complicated as we all made it out to be.  It's as simple as that. The committee laid it out, just as...
Tariq Hammond (Denver-3) Jarid Lukosevicius (Denver-14) Michael Davies (Denver-21) 17 Jan.20 Denver Pioneers and St. Cloud State University meet in a NCHC conference match-up at theHerb Brooks National Hockey Center (Bradley K. Olson)

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...

Finally

Finally we have a bracket and finally I nailed the bracket on the money. But, this one was relatively easy to gather from all the...

After the results of March 15

First things is first. For those of you looking at the PWR and the RPI, you will see that Colorado College is at...

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...

What a difference a game makes

Friday afternoon, we were discussing among the USCHO staff what one game that evening would have the greatest impact on the PairWise Rankings. We...

What I believe on Saturday morning

Based upon everything that we know, and how we've transcribed it to our PWR calculator, this is what I believe as of Saturday going...

Two spots left, who gets them?

We're almost done with the games here's the combinations. The WCHA and Hockey East Championships only matter for seeding at this time, and...

It’s now 15 – Atlantic Hockey and Niagara

What does Niagara's loss mean? It means that the cutoff line now becomes 15. i.e., if you are in position 16 in...

Six weeks out, and this bracket doesn’t need much work

As the brackets naturally shake out, Jayson Moy doesn't see a need to make any moves.

Two weeks out, and one swap creates a regional of familiar foes

The way Jayson Moy breaks it down this week, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota all would be in the West Regional in St. Paul, Minn.

Two gone, one in: What I Believe, Thursday night edition

Two games on Thursday and now I can update "What I Believe". The nitty gritty here is that Michigan Tech and St. Cloud are now...
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Bracketology Extra: Looking at the chances of teams making the NCAA tournament

Let’s take a look at the chances to make the NCAA tournament for all teams. I don’t have the math to back me up right now, because I haven’t run the scenarios yet, so it’s a quick, estimated look (photo: Jim Rosvold).

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