USCHO Projected Bracket 1/21

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but USCHO has started their "bracketology" and put it in nice little chart form.

[www.uscho.com]

Short form: Harvard as a 3 seed means they stay in Albany and play Michigan State while Cornell goes to Wisconsin as a 2 seed to play UNO and preserve "bracket integrity."

Oh boy.

Tub(a)

Short form: Harvard as a 3 seed means they stay in Albany and play Michigan State while Cornell goes to Wisconsin as a 2 seed to play UNO and preserve "bracket integrity."

Oh boy.

It doesn't actually preserve bracket integrity to send Cornell to the midwest like that. It more protects the geographic/host integrity. NoDak would be the 9 and they have to stay in the West regional. Wisconsin is the 1 and they stay as close to home as possible meaning the 1/8/9/16 form is blown. This bracket keeps the 7/10 and 8/9 pairs together and flips them so the Midwest regional would be 1/7/10/16. Of course at this point it's just plain silly for USCHO to be updating the bracket daily. There's too much hockey left as is evidenced by SLU's fall from 1 seed to bubble in 48 hours.

Is nice to see 4 ECAC teams though, with only 1 HEA representative.

Chris '03
Of course at this point it's just plain silly for USCHO to be updating the bracket daily. There's too much hockey left as is evidenced by SLU's fall from 1 seed to bubble in 48 hours.

Is nice to see 4 ECAC teams though, with only 1 HEA representative.

Agreed, a move up and down by 1 seed changes the picture significantly. This doesn't really start to be worth looking at until the conference tournaments. And gets real interesting on conference championship weekend.

Second, its all guess work anyway. The committee could decide that keeping the 1/8 pairing is more important than 7/10, and switch Mich out to Wisconsin. Anyone remember what they've done in the past? Of course, that'd likely land us in North Dakota with UND and Minnesota, so... be careful what you wish for.

The solution is simple: Win the rest of the games this season and get a #1 seed.

calgARI '07
The solution is simple: Win the rest of the games this season and get a #1 seed.

Or if not, at least get up to #6 or so. That way, if western schools end up 1 and 2, and that's pretty likely, we can at least stay east.

The RPIs of MN, WI and Miami are unassailable. The only chance for a Cornell #1 seed would be to win out, or very, very close and have CC and BC tank simultaneously. Best realistic hope for eastern ice is a 6th seed. But even that will probably require at least 3 points from each of the Colgate and SLU/Clarkson weekends along with a Harvard win, and no other screw-ups, particularly with TUCs, along the way.