The number question I still get every week is, “Will Arizona St make the NCAA tournament?” The answer to that question is still, “very likely”, but it’s not quite “definitely”. Because Arizona St is done with regular season play, any movement in its PWR will be because of the movement of other teams. To understand […]
This weekend most teams are playing best of 3 conference tournament play-in series, with the exception of two Big Ten semifinal games. The range of likely outcomes isn’t particularly broader than usual, because the best a team can do is still two wins and the worst two losses. But, this weekend’s interesting twist is that […]
With some conference tournaments beginning this weekend, the NCAA tournament outlook for most teams is pretty well known. But, a few teams in the middle are jockeying for bubble position, hoping to get an at-large bid should their conference tournament runs fall short. This article looks at what is likely to happen in the PWR […]
Inspired by a tweet earlier this week by @JoeMeloni, I thought it would be fun to look into the season’s most impactful games on the PWR. Just playing around with the Pairwise. That Canisius sweep of North Dakota is one of the defining results of the season. UND would be 10th right now if it […]
With just one weekend of play remaining until the first conference tournament begins, we know a lot more about who is likely to get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament than we did even just a couple weeks ago. Follow along, if you’d like: Wins needed to likely end regular season at PWR rank […]
| 1 | St Cloud St |
| 2 | Massachusetts |
| 3 | MSU-Mankato |
| 4 | Minnesota-Duluth |
| 5 | Quinnipiac |
| 6 | Denver |
| 7 | Ohio State |
| 8 | Northeastern |
| 9 | Clarkson |
| 10 | Arizona State |
| 11 | Cornell |
| 12 | Harvard |
| 13 | Bowling Green |
| 14 | Providence |
| 15 | Notre Dame |
| 16 | Penn State |
| 17 | Western Michigan |
| 18 | Union |
| 19 | North Dakota |
| 20 | Mass.-Lowell |
