PWR Update (through 1/21-23 weekend)
1. Boston University (30)
2. Minnesota-Duluth (29)
3. Mass.-Lowell (28)
4. Ohio State (27)
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5. Notre Dame (25)
6. Michigan (24)
7. Ferris State (23)
8. Merrimack (22)
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9. Boston College (22)
10. Northern Michigan (21)
11. Cornell (20)
12. Denver (19)
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13. Minnesota (18)
14. Michigan State (17)
15. Miami (17)
16. Atlantic Hockey Champ
Worcester:
1. Boston University
8. Merrimack
10. Northern Michigan
16. Atlantic Hockey Champ
Green Bay:
2. Minnesota-Duluth
7. Ferris State
9. Boston College
15. Miami
Bridgeport:
3. Mass-Lowell
6. Michigan
11. Cornell
14. Michigan State
St. Paul:
4. Ohio State
5. Notre Dame
12. Denver
13. Minnesota (Host)
Notes: Straight bracket integrity except a flip of #9 Boston College and #10 Northern Michigan. I would've flipped Ferris and Merrimack instead of BC and NMU but in http://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=pwcrpi, they mention that "the second-round set up to preserve, if possible, a 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5 setup".
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:12 PM ^
Don't see OSU holding onto a 1 seed. They are in a free-fall it seems. Would be interesting to be in the same region as MSU though. Hope they don't get in the tourney though.
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
With the CCHA being way ahead compared to the others in RPI, I expect at least one CCHA team getting a 1 seed. Will come down to us, ND, and OSU.
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:20 PM ^
Do the number 1 seeds get to go to play in the regional closest to their campus?
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:26 PM ^
Usually. But in this case, Minnesota-Duluth is not in St. Paul because Minnesota is the host (host teams always play in their region, no matter of the seed) and thus would make an all-WCHA first round matchup. If Minnesota gets off the 4th-seed band (either move up or fall out of the tourney), Duluth goes to St. Paul.
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:20 PM ^
I like our chances so far, this series against Miami should be huge
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:25 PM ^
Would love for us to sweep them and further denigrate their "dynasty" by hurt their NCAA chances
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:40 PM ^
disagrees with your PWR ranks. They have Michigan with a slightly higher RPI, which gives them the comparison against Lowell, tieing Michigan in number of comparisons with Notre Dame and Michigan holds that tiebreaker by winning that comparison and having a higher RPI than ND, whichever way you want to do it. I'm not sure how you can have a discrepancy in RPI, but Sioux Sports definitely has different RPI than USCHO.
I do like that bracket, though. I'm not a huge fan of facing eastern schools out east, but as long as Michigan avoids BU and Duluth in the regionals, I'm mostly happy and this way they do that and don't have to face Minnesota at home, which is also an ugly prospect.
January 22nd, 2012 at 8:07 PM ^
Yes please! I already have tickets, and it doesn't look the hosts are going to make it. Also, only BU is any good from either east coast conference.
January 22nd, 2012 at 10:06 PM ^
Every year since I've followed college hockey (~5 years), someone predicts Umass-Lowell or Umass-Amherst to breakthrough and be awesome. If there's two things I've learned in this time it's that
- The ECAC sucks but no one can remember for more than 1 year (and Yale sucks too even though they go 20-1 in that league every year)
- The Umass teams suck and they always will suck and if they seem like they're good, they'll blow it
January 22nd, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
UMass-Lowell is currently 5th in Hockey East, seven points behind Boston University. No idea what gets them to #3, as their non-conference (although 5-1, games were against bad teams - UConn x2, Alabama-Huntsville, RPI, Minnesota State-Mankato x2).