Bracketology 2019

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

You mean sort of like including in the headline "...if NCAA tournament started today" and including in the text "Bracketology assumes that the season has ended and there are no more games to be played..."? Yeah, it really sucks that Jayson doesn't do anything like that. Terribly misleading to the vast majority of people. :-|

All true, but it's somewhat undercut by this:

It's our weekly look at how I believe the NCAA tournament might look like come selection time, using what we know now.

Listen, I'm willing to take as an article of faith that there are some dumb people out there. But not understanding what Jayson is doing - especially when what Adam does later is not materially much different - requires a seriously willful level of dumb.

Have you looked around?

If he hadn't would that be a willful level of dumb?

[Trotsky]

Back to the lecture at hand, we currently sit at 15.  Remember how last year turned to shit in the blink of an eye?

[Dafatone]

Back to the lecture at hand, we currently sit at 15.

From what I can tell, we're definitely out if we lose tomorrow.

If we win tomorrow and lose Sunday, we have a chance of sticking in the top 15 and maybe having a shot.

[ugarte]

Back to the lecture at hand, we currently sit at 15.

From what I can tell, we're definitely out if we lose tomorrow.

If we win tomorrow and lose Sunday, we have a chance of sticking in the top 15 and maybe having a shot.

Q lost. Bowling Green is in the WCHA final. A lot has to break right still for 15 to be good enough.

[Jim Hyla]

Back to the lecture at hand, we currently sit at 15.

From what I can tell, we're definitely out if we lose tomorrow.

If we win tomorrow and lose Sunday, we have a chance of sticking in the top 15 and maybe having a shot.

Q lost. Bowling Green is in the WCHA final. A lot has to break right still for 15 to be good enough.

Bowling Green won 1 out of 3 in their semifinal series. NMU, like CU, can still come back to win the series and get to the finals.

If NMU wins the next 2, it should drop BGU from the top 15.

However the only thing that really matters in the WCHA, is for Minnesota State to win it all and they just squeaked by LSU 2-1 in their first game.

[scoop85]

BC's 2-1 win over Providence pushes Cornell to 11th in the PWR

[Jim Hyla]

BC's 2-1 win over Providence pushes Cornell to 11th in the PWR

10^th in KRACH and ASU is 15, meaning likely out of the NCAAs.

[upprdeck]

playing with a few results if we lose to brown and clarkson beats harvard we may stay ahead of harvard.

[Trotsky]

Currently in PWR:

05 Qpc
09 Clk
11 Cor
12 Hvd

If we meet Harvard in the final that probably means 4 ECAC teams in the NC$$.

[jtwcornell91]

Currently in PWR:

05 Qpc
09 Clk
11 Cor
12 Hvd

If we meet Harvard in the final that probably means 4 ECAC teams in the NC$$.

That would be pretty awesome, even if one of them would be Q.

[Trotsky]

Another thing according to my second-favorite site: the #1 seeds are set (though their order can change):

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   [b]1    2    3    4[/b]
1.00                 St. Cloud
      .65  .27  .08  UMass
      .24  .49  .27  Mankato
      .11  .24  .65  Minn-Duluth

[marty]

"Today's" bracket would pose an interesting decision for the committee.  The ECAC teams other than Q are in the 9-12 slots along with ASU. This likely puts ASU in Providence VS QPeck.

That in turn means that one of the remaining teams has to hitchhike to Fargo. Clarkson at 9 would by the numbers draw N. Eastern in Manchester.  

But it's more likely Harvard would go there.  Which would mean Cornell and Clarkson would be Fighting for Fargo.

[upprdeck]

but since one of harvard/clark will lose things will change. clarkson beating harvard and they probably go to the 2 line.

if we win out we might be able to get ahead of both clarson and harvard and stay east easier.

[marty]

but since one of harvard/clark will lose things will change. clarkson beating harvard and they probably go to the 2 line.

if we win out we might be able to get ahead of both clarson and harvard and stay east easier.

And that is why doing this is only exercise - and fun for some of us.

[adamw]

if anyone is still on the fence as to the intelligence level of your average college hockey fan, I will gladly data dump my inbox and twitter feed from this weekend.