Some conference tournaments begin this weekend, and the NCAA tournament outlook for most teams is already pretty well known. Only about 15 teams (of 60) have a fair amount of uncertainty as to whether they’ll make the NCAA tournament at-large. The top 7 teams are pretty safe bets (though not all mathematical locks), leaving at […]
Two weeks ago I identified 28 teams as still in the hunt for at-large bids. Of the 26 that are still in the hunt, 9 seem to have their at-large hopes on the line this weekend. For those teams, getting swept would seemingly knock them out of contention for an at-large bid. As always, you […]
Two weeks ago I wrote a First look at which teams are likely to make the 2020 NCAA hockey tournament. This article updates that with how the last two weekends’ results have changed the outlook. Who’s a lock? While two weeks ago there weren’t yet any mathematical guarantees, I no longer see any situation in […]
Long time followers of PWR know that despite seeming pretty stable overall, individual teams’ PWR rankings can move substantially under the right conditions. An 8-10 position swing in a single weekend’s pair of games is a relatively common possibility, though it often takes both an unusual outcome for the team and a lot of other […]
With 10-12 regular season games remaining for most teams, we can start to get some picture of what teams need to do to end the regular season in position for an NCAA tournament bid (we generally think of ending the regular season in the top 10 as likely being in the tournament, anywhere from 10-15 […]
| 1 | North Dakota |
| 2 | MSU-Mankato |
| 3 | Cornell |
| 4 | Minnesota-Duluth |
| 5 | Denver |
| 6 | Boston College |
| 7 | Penn State |
| 8 | Massachusetts |
| 9 | Clarkson |
| 10 | Ohio State |
| 11 | Mass.-Lowell |
| 12 | Bemidji State |
| 13 | Arizona State |
| 14 | Michigan |
| 15 | Maine |
| 16 | Quinnipiac |
| 17 | Minnesota |
| 18 | Western Michigan |
| 19 | Northeastern |
| 20 | Notre Dame |