BRACKETOLOGY Week 1: With a couple of regional hosts in the picture, seeding teams for NCAA regionals might not be easy
Welcome back to a new season of Bracketology.
Here we try to explain the process of seeding the NCAA Tournament and selecting which regional each...
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).
Minnesota Duluth remains atop PairWise Rankings
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...
Final Bracketology: The prediction for the 2019 NCAA men’s hockey tournament bracket
Jayson Moy makes his picks for how he thinks the committee will lay out the brackets (photo: Tim Brule).
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...
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,...
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: Heading to February, surging UConn looking to solidify favorable spot in 2025 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
Welcome to Week 3 of Bracketology.
Each week from now until Selection Sunday, March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the Men's...
After the WCHA Quarterfinals
So how do I see it now?
It shakes out quite well...
Providence
16 Wisconsin vs. 1 Quinnipiac
12 Minnesota State vs. 6 Massachusetts-Lowell
Grand Rapids
14 Western Michigan vs....
Final Bracketology: One last look figuring out which 16 teams will play for the 2021 national college hockey championship
We’ve seen all six conference tournaments completed and here are both Jayson's and Jim’s fields, as well as how they place them into regionals.
It’s...
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...
Teams in top 12 of PairWise on March 1 have history on their side
Since the field expanded to 16 teams in 2003, 93 percent of teams ranked in the top 12 of the PairWise Rankings on March 1 have made the NCAA tournament.
With March here, where does your team stand in the PairWise?
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...
UNH still on the bubble
Thanks to Brass Bonanza, we have to take UNH out of the "in" column and put UNH on the bubble.
Here's what Brass Bonanza came...
Three weeks out, and an abundance of NCHC teams presents some competing priorities
With three No. 1 seeds and one No. 4 seed from the NCHC, would the committee favor protecting the 1-vs.-16 matchup or avoiding first-round intra-conference games?
10 weeks out, and Hockey East has a strong presence in the bracket
The first Bracketology for 2014 shows six Hockey East teams in the NCAA tournament field of 16.
Just days out, and Hockey East teams pack the middle of the field
Hockey East has two teams in the second back and two in the third band, so there are few options to keep them from playing each other in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Maine
I think it will be difficult, if not impossible to get Maine into the tournament.
After the afternoon games, Maine sits at number 18 in...
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...
