NCAA Tourney Team Selection Options

[LordofBrewtown]

Seeing a few experts leave Bemidji out. Of all years, good enough record, did ok against Mankato and LSSU...put em in.

Didn't the committee say that the Pairwise might still be used when comparing teams from the same conference? Based on that, I wouldn't be shocked if Bowling Green was ahead of them when considering bubble teams. It also puts Connecticut ahead of Providence, and Canisius ahead of Army. Army has received some mention for bubble teams; but, Canisius really hasn't.


If I were on the committee, I would not give any conferences a 4th bid this year given the limited non-conference play. So for me, the last 3 at-large spots would be:
Canisius
Bowling Green/Bemidji
Quinnipiac/Army I'm not convinced a 3 team conference deserves 2 bids, unless that top team is clearly better than others under consideration. I'm not sure Quinnipiac is clearly better.

So, I probably wind up going with Bowling Green (based on Pairwise) and Army. That would be the ECAC auto bid, and the top 3 in the Pairwise from the other 5 conferences.
I would give AIC a 3 seed, and the #4's would be Bowling Green, Canisius, Army, and St Lawrence.

However, because of who's on the committee, I'll be shocked if Omaha doesn't get that last spot & they'll keep Quinnipiac in. I do think there's a chance they go with Bowling Green vs Bemidji - that will be interesting to see.

[brassbonanza]

I do not see BU going west. I would also be stunned if there are any intra-conference first round games. There's really no need for that.

You're right, I left out one more edit to flip MI and SCSU.

E SCSU BU
E UMass QU
W Mankato UMD
W MI UNO

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Just for fun, but if the broken Pairwise were actually used this year:

Loveland:
1. Minnesota State v. 15. St. Cloud State
7. LSSU v. 11. Canisius

Fargo:
2. North Dakota v. 16. St. Lawrence
8. Wisconsin v. 10. Bemidji State

Bridgeport:
3. AIC v. 14. Boston University
6. Massachusetts v. 9. Bowling Green

Albany:
4. Minnesota v. 13. Quinnipiac
5. Boston College v. 12. Army

[J.D.]

I do not see BU going west. I would also be stunned if there are any intra-conference first round games. There's really no need for that.

[J.D.]

Seeing a few experts leave Bemidji out. Of all years, good enough record, did ok against Mankato and LSSU...put em in.

[brassbonanza]

Another turn at the projected bracket - actually is pretty good. Could see this being how it really turns out.

https://www.sbncollegehockey.com/202...l-bracketology

Disagree. There's 7 eastern teams all in bus range, I do not think they're going to put one of them on a plane unless there is no other option - that includes an inter-conference first round game. In his bracket, he flies one of BU/QU west when he doesn't have to.

I also don't know that they're going to give Wisconsin the 1 over UMass or Mankato, which would solve all of these problems.

Loveland Regional

#1 Minnesota vs. #4 Lake Superior State

#2 St. Cloud State vs. #3 Boston University Omaha

Fargo Regional

#1 North Dakota vs. #4 St. Lawrence

#2 Minnesota State vs. #3 Minnesota Duluth

Bridgeport Regional

#1 Boston College vs. #4 American International

#2 Michigan vs. #3 Quinnipiac BU

Albany Regional

#1 Wisconsin vs. #4 Providence

#2 UMass vs. #3 Omaha QU

[meff]

Jayson Moy with UMass as a 3 seed somehow

With QU as a 2 seed...

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Jayson Moy with UMass as a 3 seed somehow

Wow. I...don't see that.

That being said, I do believe we are going to have some head-scratchers when the bracket is announced.

[chrisP]

Another turn at the projected bracket - actually is pretty good. Could see this being how it really turns out.

https://www.sbncollegehockey.com/202...l-bracketology

[J.D.]

Jayson Moy with UMass as a 3 seed somehow

[Fighting Sioux 23]

But you could have western refs for that game too. WCHA as an example.

It raises an interesting question: Will the NCAA mandate limited travel for the officials?

[manurespreader]

I think it hurts close checking teams like for instance Lowell vs up and down teams like Michigan. However watching the AIC game yesterday some of what went on uncalled was shocking!
now another question: shouldn't the pairwise be tweaked for next year.? it's just the RPI right now. I'd like it to be more like Kratch IMHO.

[J.D.]

But you could have western refs for that game too. WCHA as an example.

[Bonin21]

One overlooked issue is the way different leagues ref differently. I could see, based on the way AH refs called games this year, that some eastern teams will be either happy or upset about how calls were made/ not made in their regional. Same for western teams. There is a major difference in the physicality of the various leagues and we could easily see, for instance, UND having a parade into the box vs St. Lawrence and the score might reflect that at the end.

Like 4-1 UND instead of 6-0?

[manurespreader]

One overlooked issue is the way different leagues ref differently. I could see, based on the way AH refs called games this year, that some eastern teams will be either happy or upset about how calls were made/ not made in their regional. Same for western teams. There is a major difference in the physicality of the various leagues and we could easily see, for instance, UND having a parade into the box vs St. Lawrence and the score might reflect that at the end.