2025-26 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

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good insight into Ben's ride so far. Definitely a good person. His dad and grandpa would be very proud. 

 

[sioux rube]

Here's the Herald's attempt at projecting the 2026 NCAA men's hockey tournament bracket.

Albany
1 Michigan vs. 16 Bentley
7 Providence vs. 11 Cornell

Sioux Falls
2 North Dakota vs. 15 Merrimack
8 Minnesota Duluth vs. 10 Quinnipiac

Worcester
3 Michigan State vs. 14 UConn
6 Dartmouth vs. 9 Penn State

Loveland
4 Western Michigan vs. 13 Minnesota State
5 Denver vs. 12 Wisconsin

[ND_Texan]

18 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

Here's the Herald's attempt at projecting the 2026 NCAA men's hockey tournament bracket.

Albany
1 Michigan vs. 16 Bentley
7 Providence vs. 11 Cornell

Sioux Falls
2 North Dakota vs. 15 Merrimack
8 Minnesota Duluth vs. 10 Quinnipiac

Worcester
3 Michigan State vs. 14 UConn
6 Dartmouth vs. 9 Penn State

Loveland
4 Western Michigan vs. 13 Minnesota State
5 Denver vs. 12 Wisconsin

Bullcrap. Obviously Schloss has insight into the committee's feebleness. Still hoping the NPI is used for seeding, as it was intended.

[Dustin]

33 minutes ago, ND_Texan said:

Still hoping the NPI is used for seeding, as it was intended.

From CHN:

"The NPI -- and KRACH, for that matter -- is not precise enough for the committee to confine itself so strictly to a 1-16 ordering of the teams based upon it. It's a good method for selecting teams -- because at least an objective system, even if flawed, eliminates the problems with subjectivity. But in seeding, there's no need to be so locked into the numbers when they are so close."

[Fratt Mattin]

55 minutes ago, Dustin said:

From CHN:

"The NPI -- and KRACH, for that matter -- is not precise enough for the committee to confine itself so strictly to a 1-16 ordering of the teams based upon it. It's a good method for selecting teams -- because at least an objective system, even if flawed, eliminates the problems with subjectivity. But in seeding, there's no need to be so locked into the numbers when they are so close."

I don't get this argument at all. So the NPI isn't precise enough to determine matchups, but it's precise enough to determine who makes the tournament and who doesn't? Not to mention, this presents it like the committee is tinkering with the bracket for fairness purposes, which they aren't. They're tinkering with it for travel/attendance reasons, which is completely ridiculous

[ND_Texan]

1 hour ago, Dustin said:

From CHN:

"The NPI -- and KRACH, for that matter -- is not precise enough for the committee to confine itself so strictly to a 1-16 ordering of the teams based upon it. It's a good method for selecting teams -- because at least an objective system, even if flawed, eliminates the problems with subjectivity. But in seeding, there's no need to be so locked into the numbers when they are so close."

There are teams sitting at #17 thru #19 that were "so close" to getting selected, but weren't. Isn't that more important than being so close that seeding becomes subjective? Explain your lame ass logic to St. Thomas, Augie and UMass.

[Dustin]

7 minutes ago, Fratt Mattin said:

So the NPI isn't precise enough to determine matchups, but it's precise enough to determine who makes the tournament and who doesn't?

 They don't claim that it is precise enough to do either of those things, but what they do claim is that it is objective.

So basically, the qualifying teams have objectively met the requirements, either by winning a conference tournament or through the NPI, and there's no dispute or backroom bargaining of who qualifies (i.e. right now, no one is arguing who is in the tournament, just who they play and where).  After the qualifying teams are determined, it does appear that they are willing to allow some subjectivity when it comes to regional assignments/matchups for the sake of impreciseness due to small sample size (i.e. not enough games, teams mostly playing only conference opponents, etc.).