Making a case for attendance-based switches
Welcome to the next installment of our Bracketology, and we'll keep bringing you a new one every week until we make our final picks...
Bracketology: If the NCAA tournament began today, who’s in, who’s out?
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style (photo: Omar Phillips).
Bracketology: Which bubble teams have a shot at playing for an NCAA hockey national championship?
The topsy-turvy world of college hockey is seeing the bubble change rapidly from week to week. There are so many games and results that are affecting what is happening at the moment (photo: Craig Houtz/Penn State Athletics).
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...
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).
Bracketology: If NCAA tournament started today, top seeds would be St. Cloud State, UMass, Minnesota State, Minnesota Duluth
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).
What I Believe – Thursday Night Edition
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...
CCHA: Minimum/maximum
So, play with the PairWise Predictor, and see what fun you can have.
For example, the CCHA can have a minimum of three teams in...
Too early to mean anything, but here it is
An old friend of mine, a retired sports information director, beats everyone on his list to the punch by sending out his Christmas cards...
Eight weeks out, and attendance again forces some changes
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...
With two weekends left, here’s how the NCAA tournament brackets could look
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: 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...
What I Believe: Saturday morning
Here is What I Believe after Friday's games.
Group A
Teams that are in (11):
Canisius/Mercyhurst winner
Brown/Union winner
Colorado College/Wisconsin winner
Quinnipiac
Minnesota
Miami
Boston College
Massachusetts-Lowell
North Dakota
New Hampshire
Denver
Group B
Teams that need to...
Bracketology: Will top-end balance continue in NCAA hockey up until Selection Sunday?
For the first time since Bracketology premiered about a month ago, there is balance among the top four teams in the PairWise. We have two teams from the west in North Dakota and Minnesota State and two from the east in Cornell and Boston College (photo: Rich Gagnon).
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.
Here’s our final prediction for the NCAA tournament brackets
Jayson Moy gives his picks for the field of 16 and where they'll play in the regional round.
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: Figuring out problems on how to best seed the 2020 NCAA hockey national tournament
We’re down to five and a half weeks until selection Sunday, and as things begin to shape up in terms of what teams are getting closer to punching their NCAA tickets, we are also running into some problems on how to best seed the tournament (photo: Jim Rosvold/University of Minnesota).
Three teams on the bubble ahead of Saturday’s games
As we await the final seven games before selection Sunday, here's where we stand.
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...
