NCAA Hockey Bracket ABC's
February 29th, 2016 at 7:25 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:26 PM ^
It's a 16 team tournament.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:29 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^
Only about 60 teams in D1 hockey. Some argue 16 is actually too big
February 29th, 2016 at 8:06 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^
This SITE lists NHL draft picks currently playing college hockey. Michigan has 12; here are some numbers for other teams high in the pairwise rankings:
Quinnipiac has 2.
St. Cloud State has 3.
Providence has 8.
North Dakota has 12.
Boston College has 13.
Denver has 5.
Yale has 3.
Minnesota (not high in Pairwise but ahead of M in the B1G) has 12.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:45 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^
St Cloud just got swept by an unranked Duluth and didn't budge
February 29th, 2016 at 7:50 PM ^
NCHC fanboys. Minnesouta-Duluth is sub-500 and somehow at 15 in the PWR.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:57 PM ^
Teams below .500 can't get an at-large bid, so it doesn't really matter.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^
Do they make any effort to put teams close to campus like the basketball tourney has started to do? I'm guessing no since that would dramatically affect overall toughness of regions.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 7:45 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 8:24 PM ^
They do try to put teams near their hometowns, but the hockey tournament is notorious for playing in front of empty arenas. Fans just don't travel well to regionals. People who make a trip of it usually save it for the Frozen Four.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^
Barring a massive collapse Minnesota is in. They're 14th in the RPI and play Wisconsin and Michigan State.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:51 PM ^
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February 29th, 2016 at 8:13 PM ^
The two time national champs are currently ranked 25th, in fact!
I'll show myself out...
February 29th, 2016 at 8:19 PM ^
'54 and '85!
the '85 team was the 2nd best team I've ever seen - 1997 M was better in spite of losing to BU in the semifinal.
those 2 teams, and the early 90s LSSU and Maine teams might be the best ever.
February 29th, 2016 at 8:49 PM ^
February 29th, 2016 at 8:22 PM ^
double, so here's a familiar name for the gentry:
February 29th, 2016 at 9:11 PM ^
or maybe another harkness? buddy of mine played at clarkson and RPI was a regular on their schedule. i had just graduated from mich, and had never played RPI and had no idea where they even were located.
February 29th, 2016 at 9:36 PM ^
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February 29th, 2016 at 8:46 PM ^
It amazes me that a team like this is in line for a 2-seed and still feel a bit disrespected. It could absolutely be a team that burns out if they run into a hot goalie, but they can drop half a dozen on anyone.
February 29th, 2016 at 9:07 PM ^
They can also drop a half dozen to anyone. It's going to be exciting and likely to make your blood pressure spike at least six times a game.
February 29th, 2016 at 9:26 PM ^
Yes this team will FINALLY get into the tournament so I guess theres that..BUT what have they won? what banners have they claimed? For 3 straight years all they needed was to win one game to get a banner of importance and how many have they won so far? ZERO...thats right ZERO....all this talk every year about how much talent we have..NHL this NHL that..blah blah blah...get a BANNER and we can talk
Yeah, Berenson's never won anything. WTF?
February 29th, 2016 at 11:34 PM ^
This is your third sizzling hot take today. First it was baseball, then basketball, now it's hockey.
it's hard to earn a banner mid-season.
I'd rather us not be a #1 seed. Historically, UM and the field as a whole play better as a 2 or 3 seed than a 1. If you've read Blue Ice from JUB, he discusses something known as the Terrier Curse, where UM historically has played worse and lost as a favorite, but won as the underdog.