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The NCAA men’s hockey committee moved a Minnesota Duluth-Minnesota State matchup to Sioux Falls (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We almost got there this year in terms of predicting the bracket. Well, not really.<\/p>\n

The two major themes here seemed to be attendance and proximity.<\/p>\n

BRACKET: See our NCAA tournament page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you take a look at it, in some of my past Bracketology posts, I had mentioned that Ohio State would be a bus ride to Allentown and that Notre Dame could fly anywhere and that’s a reason that Ohio State might be the top seed in Allentown. That indeed happened.<\/p>\n

We also wondered if the committee would swap the Minnesota State vs. Minnesota Duluth matchup to Sioux Falls for proximity\/attendance. In the end, I said I didn’t think it would happen. The committee said otherwise. It was in the mix, though.<\/p>\n

If you lay out the brackets in true bracket integrity you get these four groups:<\/p>\n

\u2022 St. Cloud State vs. Air Force and Northeastern vs. Michigan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Notre Dame vs. Michigan Tech and Clarkson vs. Providence<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cornell vs. Princeton and Minnesota State vs. Penn State<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ohio State vs. Boston University and Denver vs. Minnesota Duluth<\/p>\n

You have to swap Princeton with Boston University to not have the Cornell vs. Princeton matchup.<\/p>\n

You have to swap Minnesota Duluth with Penn State to not have the Denver vs. Minnesota Duluth matchup.<\/p>\n

You now have:<\/p>\n

\u2022 St Cloud State vs. Air Force and Northeastern vs. Michigan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Notre Dame vs. Michigan Tech and Clarkson vs. Providence<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cornell vs. Boston University and Minnesota State vs. Minnesota Duluth<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ohio State vs. Princeton and Denver vs. Penn State<\/p>\n

Now, place the regionals.<\/p>\n

St. Cloud goes to Sioux Falls and we have already said that Ohio State was going to Allentown for travel reasons. In addition, you have Penn State as a host school.<\/p>\n

Now, where do the other two regionals wind up? You have to love having Boston University in Worcester, so you place that Cornell vs. Boston University bracket in Worcester, giving you this bracket:<\/p>\n

Midwest Regional (Allentown):<\/b>
\n14 Princeton vs. 4 Ohio State
\n11 Penn State vs. 5 Denver<\/p>\n

East Regional (Bridgeport):<\/b>
\n15 Michigan Tech vs. 2 Notre Dame
\n10 Clarkson vs. 7 Providence<\/p>\n

West Regional (Sioux Falls):<\/b>
\n16 Air Force vs. 1 St. Cloud State
\n9 Northeastern vs. 8 Michigan<\/p>\n

Northeast Regional (Worcester):<\/b>
\n13 Boston University vs. 3 Cornell
\n12 Minnesota Duluth vs. 6 Minnesota State<\/p>\n

From here, you look at flights, attendance and proximity. So you swap the matchups as we mentioned above and bring the All-Minnesota game to Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n

Thus, we get the bracket:<\/p>\n

Midwest Regional (Allentown):<\/b>
\n14 Princeton vs. 4 Ohio State
\n11 Penn State vs. 5 Denver<\/p>\n

East Regional (Bridgeport):<\/b>
\n15 Michigan Tech vs. 2 Notre Dame
\n10 Clarkson vs. 7 Providence<\/p>\n

West Regional (Sioux Falls):<\/b>
\n16 Air Force vs. 1 St. Cloud State
\n12 Minnesota Duluth vs. 6 Minnesota State<\/p>\n

Northeast Regional (Worcester):<\/b>
\n13 Boston University vs. 3 Cornell
\n9 Northeastern vs. 8 Michigan<\/p>\n

It’s as easy as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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