Six weeks out, and the decisions are in moving and protecting teams
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...
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...
Bracket Analysis: Success against best teams in your league guided NCAA Selection Committee; travel wasn’t major consideration
With Selection Sunday now in the rear-view mirror and the tourney a few days away from beginning, Jayson Moy and Jim Connelly analyze the bracket.
Bracketology: With more games played, what teams are in, out of the upcoming NCAA men’s hockey tournament?
Last week, in the inaugural edition of Bracketology for the 2020-21 season, Jim and Jayson attempted to layout their potential field for this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey tournament.
Let’s see how these two approach this week:
Final Bracketology: Our pick for the 2022 NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament
Only one small tweak was needed once we put together the full bracket with bracket integrity.
Bracketology Extra: Here are the 16 teams projected to make the 2019 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
The NCAA tournament selection show is scheduled to air on ESPNU at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Number one seeds
Three of four number one seeds have been claimed.
Yale, North Dakota and Boston College have all claimed number one seeds.
We can go a little...
Bracketology: What teams are in the NCAA tournament, what teams are not with men’s college hockey playoffs starting
We promised it last week, that in this week’s Bracketology, Jayson and I would try to find some sort of agreement on a field, just like being on the NCAA committee.
If we’re able to do that (spoiler: we’re not), we’ll attempt to put together what we think the regionals should look like.
BRACKETOLOGY: Some movement in the PairWise makes this week’s Bracketology that much more difficult to handle
Last week was the Bracketologist's dream.
All of the 16 teams fit nicely in a perfect bracket without any sort of conference matchups in the...
One week out, and some new at-large teams appear in the field
Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan Tech moved into the top 14 of the PairWise Rankings after last weekend.
Explaining a subtle change to the PairWise
If you follow the PairWise Rankings, you probably know that it's based on the publicly published NCAA men's ice hockey committee's selection criteria.
That criteria,...
The first of hopefully many sighs of relief for some teams
With Bemidji State losing, that collective sigh of relief you heard came from Nebraska-Omaha, Rensselaer, Boston University and Maine.
One less chance of someone outside...
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...
BRACKETOLOGY: Not much change in this week’s men’s hockey bracket, but where will Maine be seeded come March 23?
Welcome to Week 8 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the...
Bracketology: As college hockey playoffs kick into high gear, which teams are on the bubble, and which teams are locks for NCAA tournament bids?
We’re three weeks into Braceketology and we’re already seeing some conference tournament results that are having lasting impact.
Last weekend, it was Ohio State losing...
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...
Looking at the PairWise as 2017 rolls 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...
BRACKETOLOGY: Big Ten hockey playoff upsets skew PairWise rankings somewhat as we keep an eye on potential Allentown regional
Welcome to Week 9 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the...
A wild weekend
It was a crazy weekend for sure.
But, we're a little closer to finding out who may be moving on in the NCAA Tournament.
We'll keep...
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...
