#9 Arizona State has been the talk of the NCAA hockey tournament prognostication community in 2019. In their third year in D-I, the Sun Devils (19-10-1) are aiming to be the first independent team to earn an at-large tournament bid since Alaska-Anchorage in 1992. They are #9 in the PairWise Rankings (PWR) that mimic the […]
Who doesn’t find themself looking at the PairWise Ranking (PWR) each week? (Ok, very few of us do, but I have a feeling you might be among the select few). While a lot of the tools and analysis here focus on the end of season and who’s going to make the NCAA tournament, it’s also […]
With most teams having just 10-12 regular season games remaining, we can draw some conclusions about who’s likely to make the NCAA tournament. In this article, I’ll look at the regular season forecasts (see First 2019 PWR forecast available for an explanation, if you’re not familiar) to discuss how teams need to perform in their […]
After the holiday break is generally considered a good time to start paying attention to the PairWise Ranking (PWR). Remember that PWR is a ranking whose calculation mimics the NCAA’s tournament selection process, so the final PWR ranking perfectly predicts the teams that will be selected for the NCAA tournament. The 2014 article, When to […]
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. […]
| 1 | St Cloud St |
| 2 | Massachusetts |
| 3 | Ohio State |
| 4 | Minnesota-Duluth |
| 5 | Quinnipiac |
| 6 | MSU-Mankato |
| 7 | Denver |
| 8 | Cornell |
| 9 | Arizona State |
| 10 | Western Michigan |
| 11 | Mass.-Lowell |
| 12 | Clarkson |
| 13 | Harvard |
| 14 | Northeastern |
| 15 | Bowling Green |
| 16 | Notre Dame |
| 17 | Providence |
| 18 | Penn State |
| 19 | Lake Superior |
| 20 | Union |
