Everyone’s favorite college hockey ranking scheme, KRACH, is also a favorite way to predict the odds of each team winning a game. As in past years, I used KRACH to predict each tournament team’s odds of winning it’s first round game, advancing out of the regional, winning a semifinal game, and winning the national championship. […]
I’ve crunched through the remaining 192 possible outcomes, and here’s what I think happens tomorrow for each team. In for sure St Cloud St Notre Dame Cornell Ohio State Denver Mankato Northeastern Providence Michigan Clarkson Penn State Can still get autobid by winning conference Atlantic Hockey – Robert Morris or Air Force ECAC – Princeton […]
Of the remaining possible scenarios that could come out of this weekend’s conference tournaments, here’s a breakdown of the share of scenarios of how many teams each conference sends: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Atlantic Hockey 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Big 10 0% 0% 0% 2% 23% 75% 0% ECAC […]
An example of Boston University making the NCAA tournament at-large (that is, without winning the Hockey East tournament) follows: https://goo.gl/UJMXKt Generalizing that individual scenario, two things need to happen for Boston University to make the NCAAs at-large: Game outcomes need to be such that BU gets pushed up to #14 PWR, despite a loss Only […]
This article describes what teams might make the NCAA hockey tournament based on the data in the College Hockey Tournament Possibilities table: College Hockey Tournament Possibilities Because of a new conference tournament schedule this year, there are only 15 games remaining and thus only 49,152 possible outcomes remaining (the NCHC consolation game can end in […]
| 1 | Michigan State |
| 2 | Providence |
| 3 | St Cloud St |
| 4 | Princeton |
| 5 | North Dakota |
| 6 | Union |
| 7 | Michigan |
| 8 | Cornell |
| 9 | RIT |
| 10 | Nebraska-Omaha |
| 11 | Canisius |
| 12 | Northern Michigan |
| 13 | Merrimack |
| 14 | Ferris State |
| 15 | Sacred Heart |
| 16 | Denver |
| 17 | Colgate |
| 18 | Niagara |
| 19 | Dartmouth |
| 20 | Michigan Tech |
