ncaa hockey bracket/pick em

i probably can't find enough people around here to do an ncaa hockey bracket, but there's no shortage on elynah of hockey knowledge and interest.

i figured we could do one for the remaining tournaments for the "big 4" conferences, and/or one for the ncaa tournament itself. we'd hafta do it just for bragging rights i guess.

if people are interested, i'll post some rules and post the HEA, ECAC, CHA, WCHA tournament brackets here...

-mike

I run an annual NCAA hockey office pool as a protest against squeakball domination. I'm usually the only one who knows anything about it, but someone else actually managed to win last year.

I'd be interested in doing a hockey bracket.

CAN YOU OUT-DO USCHO? (Probably).

Round One: Predict the national conference tournament results:
Round Two (forthcoming): Predict the NCAA tournament results.

so here are the rules:

1) final conference tourney entries must be submitted by 3PM Thursday 3/17, before any games are played. no editing brackets allowed after 3PM e.s.t.. you can just copy your "you are the committee" results if you want (http://www.uscho.com/rankings/yatc.php).

2) indicate the winning team. for the 5 conf championship games, indicate a score.

3) because not all tourneys have the same number of games, play-in games will count for 1 point each, semifinal games will count for 2 points each, consolation games will count for 3 points each and final games will count for 4 points each. Correctly guessing the two cornell game scores bestows an extra bonus point. that's a total of 50 possible points (3 play-in games, 10 semifinals, 3 consolations, 5 championships, and 2 cornell scores to pick). in the unlikely event of a tie, championship scores will be somehow used to select the winner.

4) for sheer amusement, i will paste the USCHO weekly column writers' picks to indicate how many points the website staff receive.

5) indicate name and graduation year! for amusement, indicate where cornell would be in the Pairwise rankings according to your predicted outcome.

-mike

Here are the match-ups:
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AHA/MAAC:
PLAY-IN
N/A
SEMIFINALS
(1) Quin. v. (7) Bentley. Winner:
(3) Mercyhurst v. (4) Holy Cross. Winner:
CONSOLATION
N/A
FINAL

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CCHA:
PLAY-IN
(4) Nebraska-Omaha v. (6) MSU. Winner:
(8) Alaska Fairbanks v. (3) Northerm Mich. Winner:
SEMIFINALS
(1) Michigan v. lowest remaining seed. Winner:
(2) Ohio State v. other play-in winner. Winner:
CONSOLATION

FINAL

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ECAC:
PLAY-IN
N/A
SEMIFINALS
(1) Cornell v. (4) Vermont. Winner:
(2) Harvard v. (3) Colgate. Winner:
CONSOLATION

FINAL

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HEA:
PLAY-IN
N/A
SEMIFINALS
(1) BC v. (4) Maine. Winner:
(2) BU v. (3) UNH. Winner:
CONSOLATION
N/A
FINAL

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WCHA:
PLAY-IN
(4) Wisconsin v. (5) NoDak. Winner:
SEMIFINALS
(1) Denver v. Wisc/NoDak. Winner:
(2) CC vs. Minny. Winner:
CONSOLATION

FINAL

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So what does the winner get...?

[Q]judy Wrote:

So what does the winner get...?[/q]

Carpal Tunnel?

[Q]judy Wrote:

So what does the winner get...?[/q]

Mike's respect!

[Q]French Rage Wrote:

judy Wrote:

So what does the winner get...?[/Q]
Mike's respect!
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haha too amusing