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American International’s upset of St. Cloud State knocked out a lot of chances for perfect brackets (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Update, 10:30 p.m. EDT Friday:<\/strong> After the first four games of the tournament, there are only six perfect brackets. That’s 0.3 percent of the 1,749 entries.<\/p>\n

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The No. 1 overall seed was the most popular choice to win the 2019 NCAA men’s hockey championship in our College Hockey Bracket Challenge<\/a> contest.<\/p>\n

St. Cloud State was the pick to win in 759 of the 1,749 brackets entered, with Minnesota Duluth as the second choice.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full breakdown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Team<\/th>Picks<\/th>Pct.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
St. Cloud State<\/td>759<\/td>43.40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota Duluth<\/td>380<\/td>21.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UMass<\/td>127<\/td>7.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northeastern<\/td>104<\/td>5.95%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota State<\/td>103<\/td>5.89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denver<\/td>63<\/td>3.60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clarkson<\/td>62<\/td>3.54%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notre Dame<\/td>43<\/td>2.46%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quinnipiac<\/td>32<\/td>1.83%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornell<\/td>20<\/td>1.14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ohio State<\/td>15<\/td>0.86%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bowling Green<\/td>12<\/td>0.69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Providence<\/td>12<\/td>0.69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arizona State<\/td>10<\/td>0.57%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American International<\/td>4<\/td>0.23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harvard<\/td>3<\/td>0.17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Follow the contest at social.uscho.com<\/a>\u00a0and see the full NCAA tournament bracket here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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