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2012 NCAA Tournament: Bracketology

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UNO has good chances to get to 16 if they can pick up points in their remaining games. Especially against CC, Minnesota, and Denver. You have a major shot to shoot up in the PW right there.
 
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klbaum1077 said:
They have said in the past they will not move teams around to make attendance better and right now the midwest would look like that unless they go against there word.
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Remember I opened up by saying that it was a futile argument....but yes.. you followed my logic. Bracket integrity, travel, attendance in that order.
 
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Priceless said:
UNO is currently in 21st position in the Pairwise. Making the tournament would be impressive, but hardly shocking. Just last year CC was #21 at this point and made the field. In 2010, Alaska was #21 and Northern Michigan was #24. Other late bloomers: St Cloud (#22) in 2008, St. Lawrence (#21) in 2007 and Maine (#24) in 2006.
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How come you neglected #26 Union? :p
 
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OK, obviously something is wrong with my script.

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Bridgeport	Worcester	St. Paul	Green Bay[/B]
Lowell		BU		Minn-Duluth	Ohio State
Michigan	Merrimack	Ferris		Notre Dame
Cornell		No Mich		Minnesota	BC
Miami		AHA Champ	Mich State	Denver
 
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Re: 2012 NCAA Tournament: Bracketology

BU
Duluth
Lowell
OSU
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ferris
Merrimack
BC
NMU
Cornell
Denver
Miami
MSU
Minn
AHA

NE 1. BU 2. Merrimack 3. Cornell 4. AHA 1-8-11-16
East 1. Lowell 2. Notre Dame 3. BC 4. Miami 3-6-9-13
Midwest 1. Duluth 2. Ferris 3. NMU 4. MSU 2-7-10-14
West 1. OSU 2. Mich 3. Denver 4. Minn 4-5-12-15

Integrity, teams moved within band to prevent intraconference match-ups, geography/travel. Pretty sound attendance.
 
streaker said:
NE 1. BU 2. Merrimack 3. Cornell 4. AHA 1-8-11-16
East 1. Lowell 2. Notre Dame 3. BC 4. Miami 3-6-9-13
Midwest 1. Duluth 2. Ferris 3. NMU 4. MSU 2-7-10-14
West 1. OSU 2. Mich 3. Denver 4. Minn 4-5-12-15

Integrity, teams moved within band to prevent intraconference match-ups, geography/travel. Pretty sound attendance.
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Three CCHA schools in Green Bay is pretty unavoidable with seven CCHA teams hanging around. Feels like that all WCHA Frozen Four all over again.
 
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aparch said:
Three CCHA schools in Green Bay is pretty unavoidable with seven CCHA teams hanging around. Feels like that all WCHA Frozen Four all over again.
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Funny thing about that is the W hosting both western regions and probably would be favored to come out of them.
 
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streaker said:
BU
Duluth
Lowell
OSU
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ferris
Merrimack
BC
NMU
Cornell
Denver
Miami
MSU
Minn
AHA

NE 1. BU 2. Merrimack 3. Cornell 4. AHA 1-8-11-16
East 1. Lowell 2. Notre Dame 3. BC 4. Miami 3-6-9-13
Midwest 1. Duluth 2. Ferris 3. NMU 4. MSU 2-7-10-14
West 1. OSU 2. Mich 3. Denver 4. Minn 4-5-12-15

Integrity, teams moved within band to prevent intraconference match-ups, geography/travel. Pretty sound attendance.
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Minnesota is the host school in the Midwest. Therefore, they need to be in the Midwest. UMD would have to be moved to prevent a first round matchup between conference opponents.
 
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Amsoil said:
Minnesota is the host school in the Midwest. Therefore, they need to be in the Midwest. UMD would have to be moved to prevent a first round matchup between conference opponents.
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Minnesota is the host in the west not the midwest.
 
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streaker said:
BU
Duluth
Lowell
OSU
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ferris
Merrimack
BC
NMU
Cornell
Denver
Miami
MSU
Minn
AHA

NE 1. BU 2. Merrimack 3. Cornell 4. AHA 1-8-11-16
East 1. Lowell 2. Notre Dame 3. BC 4. Miami 3-6-9-13
Midwest 1. Duluth 2. Ferris 3. NMU 4. MSU 2-7-10-14
West 1. OSU 2. Mich 3. Denver 4. Minn 4-5-12-15

Integrity, teams moved within band to prevent intraconference match-ups, geography/travel. Pretty sound attendance.
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This would be the worst possible draw for ohio state.
 
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Hmmm there is a discrepancy between sites.

TBRW and SiouxSports have
1 Boston Univ (HE) 30 0.5760
2 Minn-Duluth (WC) 29 0.5754
3 Mass-Lowell (HE) 28 0.5592
4 Ohio State (CC) 27 0.5590
5 Notre Dame (CC) 25 0.5531
6 Michigan (CC) 24 0.5588
7 Ferris State (CC) 23 0.5466
8 Merrimack (HE) 22 0.5513
9 Boston Coll (HE) 22 0.5503
10 Northern Mich (CC) 21 0.5502
11 Cornell (EC) 20 0.5456
12 Minnesota (WC) 19 0.5444
13 Denver U (WC) 19 0.5311
14 Miami (CC) 17 0.5432
15 Mich State (CC) 16 0.5444


USCHO has
1 Boston University 30 0.5760
2 Minnesota-Duluth 29 0.5733
3 Massachusetts-Lowell 27 0.5588
4 Ohio State 27 0.5583
5 Michigan 25 0.5588
6 Notre Dame 25 0.5531
7 Ferris State 23 0.5466
8 Merrimack 22 0.5512
9 Boston College 22 0.5503
10 Northern Michigan 21 0.5502
11 Cornell 20 0.5456
12 Denver 19 0.5311
13 Miami 18 0.5432
14 Michigan State 17 0.5444
15 Minnesota 17 0.5432

Not sure where the difference is...
 
Re: 2012 NCAA Tournament: Bracketology

Through Sunday 1/23 games:

1. Boston University (30)
2. Minnesota-Duluth (29)
3. Mass.-Lowell (28)
4. Ohio State (27)
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5. Notre Dame (25)
6. Michigan (24)
7. Ferris State (23)
8. Merrimack (22)
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9. Boston College (22)
10. Northern Michigan (21)
11. Cornell (20)
12. Denver (19)
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13. Minnesota (18)
14. Michigan State (17)
15. Miami (17)
16. Atlantic Hockey Champ


Worcester:
1. Boston University
8. Merrimack
10. Northern Michigan
16. Atlantic Hockey Champ

Green Bay:
2. Minnesota-Duluth
7. Ferris State
9. Boston College
15. Miami

Bridgeport:
3. Mass-Lowell
6. Michigan
11. Cornell
14. Michigan State

St. Paul:
4. Ohio State
5. Notre Dame
12. Denver
13. Minnesota (Host)
 
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Pants said:
Wait for UNO to sweep in and blow your minds!

And by blow your minds I mean make it into the tourny
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We can't be splitting with the 11th place team on the road and blowing 3 different leads in the loss.

We give up too many goals and too many bad ones at that.

IMHO, UNO's schedule sets up for them favorably to get into the tourney, and I think they might still get it done, but they have to end the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde inconsistency right away. They also, out of the blue, have started taking stupid penalties. 3 majors and game misconducts in the last 4 games.

All are signs of a young team, which UNO is in a big way. Focus has CLEARLY been something of an issue for this team this year. Hudson getting kicked off the team, Sustr's injury, and, our Head Coach and one of the team's leading scorer's disappearing for two weeks at mid-season (thanks, IIHF) certainly have not helped, either.
 
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Red Cows said:
We can't be splitting with the 11th place team on the road and blowing 3 different leads in the loss.

We give up too many goals and too many bad ones at that.

IMHO, UNO's schedule sets up for them favorably to get into the tourney, and I think they might still get it done, but they have to end the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde inconsistency right away. They also, out of the blue, have started taking stupid penalties. 3 majors and game misconducts in the last 4 games.

All are signs of a young team, which UNO is in a big way. Focus has CLEARLY been something of an issue for this team this year. Hudson getting kicked off the team, Sustr's injury, and, our Head Coach and one of the team's leading scorer's disappearing for two weeks at mid-season (thanks, IIHF) certainly have not helped, either.
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Don't know what your post has to do with bracketology, but okay.

T20th in the PWR with 10 games to go against Minn, Denver, Bemidji, MTU and CC would suggest to me that UNO will have to go 7-3, 8-2 just to try to slip in as a 4th seed at large, IF some other teams drop out. A better bet would be to win the WCHA tourney and get the autobid. Tall order there RC.
 
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The issue might be that USCHO is not removing wins that hurt a team's RPI from the mix. The RPI data for teams that have beaten a weak opponent does not match. There are a few other RPI values that are a little off, so there may be another problem as well.
 
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