Well, the selection show is over, and, honestly, I was not surprised.<\/p>\n
USCHO.com nailed all 16 teams once again, and we were just one switch away from a perfect bracket.<\/p>\n
Here’s the bracket as announced Sunday on ESPN2:<\/p>\n
Green Bay:
\nColorado College vs. Cornell
\nBemidji State vs. Wisconsin<\/p>\n
Grand Forks:
\nMichigan vs. North Dakota
\nHoly Cross vs. Minnesota<\/p>\n
Worcester:
\nBoston College vs. Miami
\nNebraska-Omaha vs. Boston University<\/p>\n
Albany:
\nMaine vs. Harvard
\nNew Hampshire vs. Michigan State<\/p>\n
Here was my bracket:<\/p>\n
Green Bay:
\nColorado College vs. Miami
\nBemidji State vs. Wisconsin<\/p>\n
Grand Forks:
\nMichigan vs. North Dakota
\nHoly Cross vs. Minnesota<\/p>\n
Worcester:
\nBoston College vs. Cornell
\nNebraska-Omaha vs. Boston University<\/p>\n
Albany:
\nMaine vs. Harvard
\nNew Hampshire vs. Michigan State<\/p>\n
There was just one difference: swap Miami and Cornell, and you have the NCAA’s selected tournament.<\/p>\n
What was my reasoning for the difference?<\/p>\n
From yesterday’s Final Bracketology:<\/p>\n
We have a round-robin of sorts amongst this group. Miami beats North Dakota, North Dakota beats Cornell and Cornell beats Miami if you look at the individual comparisons.<\/p>\n
We’ve already put Harvard into the No. 5 slot, that’s a given because Harvard is higher in the PWR by two full comparisons.<\/p>\n
So we’re trying to slot three teams into three different slots as 6, 7 and 8. We know that North Dakota must play in Grand Forks, so we will assign them the No. 7 seed. And based upon the rule that RPI breaks a tie, that’s where it sits on the rankings after breaking ties.<\/p>\n
Not we’re left with Cornell and Miami, for seeds 6 and 8. Cornell has beaten Miami in the individual comparison. By that means, Cornell is No. 6 and Miami is No. 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is pretty obvious, then. The committee did not do this. They broke the three-way tie using the RPI, ranked teams 1-16 using the PairWise, and went straight through the pairings accordingly.<\/p>\n
Simple. Easy. No complaints. No controversy.<\/p>\n
Let’s enjoy the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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