yzerman19

Fcs atlantic

FCS Atlantic 0-0 in first

Wow...fast hockey on display

First shift all wolverines

Game on..."play like a champion today" Kill, kill, kill Go domers

How about Manny's dinner the night before the tourney next year...

Good thing Moy isn't on the committee

That's because CHN isn't manipulating brackets for "attendance"

Seriously...WCHA conference tourney winner, WCHA regular season winner, and CCHA conference tourney winner all as #4 seeds if Michigan wins.

No number 1 wants Michigan or Sconny right now

Yup...how about tht draw for the Goofs? Your reward for a great season...a power program, that happens to be fajita steak hot right now, in their backyard, in the opener

You know, rules only apply when they benefit certain people

It's amazing to see all the empty seats at other conference tourneys... No way Pig 10 or National draw F5 attendance...

It's not rocket science, and I've also rarely missed in my predictions since the inception of pairwise. He went out on a limb by making attendance moves. These are purely discretionary. I don't think anyone's upset about Niagara. I would love to have Quinnipiac and Canisius as well, and Notre Dame winning creates that bracket. Only way it doesn't happen in that scenario is selection committee bias/ manipulation under guise of raising attendance.

You just can't take communion

The a$$clown on USCHO bracketology is making big moves for attendance...either that or just hoping to rev up some readers. If Notre Dame wins, and they do what that clown says, I will be furious. Quinnipiac's coach is on the committee...

In the Notre Dame wins scenario we have lovely rewards for great seasons for a couple #1 seeds: Lowell gets WI...conference playoff champ of a big time conference and hottest team in country Notre Dame gets SCSU...regular season champ of a big time conference crazy how the puck sometimes bounces... in that scenario, t wouldn't be too far fetched to imagine an all WCHA frozen four again

Looking at their stats, it looks like their goalie "chewbacca" is a stud. Although they don't appear to have played many games against top end competition.

avoiding intraconference is still easy- splitting ties to avoid intraconference vs using the tie-breaker criteria resulting in an intraconference seems like a no-brainer. The only true intraconference move would be Yale and Wisconsin in the ND wins the CCHA scenario...You have to believe the committee will think that Minnesota, the #2 seed, earned the right to not have to play a rival, hot off the conference tourney championship, in the first round and therefore flip #14 and #15 seeds.

I'm feeling pretty confident that we are either in Providence or Grand Rapids, and we are playing Niagara first in either scenario

great minds think alike I came up with the same scenario

Now lets assume ND wins tomorrow- 1. Quinnipiac 2. Minnesota 3. Lowell 4. Notre Dame 5T. Miami 5T. BC 7. UNH 8. UND 9T. DU 9T. Niagara 11T. Mankato 11T. Union 13. SCSU 14. Yale 15. WI 16. Canisius Place Top seeds nearest home: Quinnipiac-Providence, Minnesota- Grand Rapids, Lowell- Manchester, Notre Dame- Toledo Place UNH in Manchester Providence 1. Quinnipiac vs 16. Canisius 8. UND vs 9. Niagara (tie split differently to avoid intraconference) Grand Rapids 2. Minnesota vs 14. Yale (swap 14 and 15 to avoid intraconference) 6. BC vs. 11. Mankato {whole bracket moved to keep integrity while keeping UNH in Manchester} Manchester 3. Lowell vs 15. WI (swap 14 and 15 to avoid intraconference) 7. UNH vs 10. DU (tie split differently to avoid intraconference) {whole bracket moved to keep integrity while keeping UNH in Manchester} Toledo 4. Notre Dame vs 13. SCSU 5. Miami vs 12. Union Moves are: splitting ties differently to avoid intraconference, swapping WI and Yale's first round match-ups to avoid intraconference, swapping the BC vs Mankato bracket and the UNH vs DU bracket in order to keep first round match-up integrity while still keeping UNH in Manchester

First, let's assume MI wins tomorrow: 1. Quinnipiac 2. Minnesota 3. Lowell 4. Miami 5. BC 6T. UND 6T. UNH 8. ND 9. DU 10. Niagara 11T. Mankato 11T. Union 13. SCSU 14. WI 15. MI 16. Canisius Place the top seeds nearest home: Quinnipiac- Providence, Minnesota- Grand Rapids, Lowell- Manchester, Miami- Toledo Place UNH in Manchester Providence 1. Quinnipiac vs 16. Canisius 8. Notre Dame vs 9. Denver Grand Rapids 2. Minnesota vs 15. Michigan 7. UND vs 10. Niagara Manchester 3. Lowell vs 14. Wisconsin 6. UNH vs 11. Mankato Toledo 4. Miami vs 13. SCSU 5. BC vs 12. Union Only move is splitting a tie for 6th in PWR differently by making UNH 6 and UND 7. Other than that, straight bracket integrity. Decent attendance.

They can also move one team, or the whole bracket

No, because bracket integrity will be thrown off. They will need to balance Minn in Rapids, NH in Manchester, and avoid intraconference first round, and it looks like DU and Mankato will be 3 seeds, meaning UND can't be in those brackets