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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Updated the topic and OP for the NCAA tournament
Looks like Notre Dame has the best chance to advance to the Frozen Four of all teams with Flames prospects, Wisconsin has their hands full in round 1 and BC will have to beat the top rated Quinnipac in the Regional Championship to advance to the Frozen Four. That said Go Eagles! Go Badgers! and Go Irish!
I also have to say it really burns me that UNH is a #2 seed in the regionals and Providence didn't even get an at large berth, the NCAA needs to find a better way to prevent garbage like this. Providence proved they could beat a top 2 seed in a best of 3, they deserve a chance.
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UNH was a top 10 team pretty much all year and has the resume to deserve a 2 seed in the tournament. Providence simply did not have the resume to get in. The pairwise rankings, which takes into account most of the selection criteria and tries to fairly compare teams, has Providence tied for 22nd. Providence went 7-11-4 against "Teams Under Consideration" (basically potential tournament teams) while Yale, who was the lowest at large, went 10-10-3. There's nothing garbage about it, this is a tournament that has to select teams from a number of different leagues, you can't put in teams based off of a single playoff series.