NCAA FROZEN FOUR TOURNAMENT BRACKET
the brackets will be announced March 23rd, 2014
The participants are decided in the following fashion:
- The 6 conference Championship teams receive automatic berths
- The final spots are decided using the pairwise rankings
Current pairwise rankings can be found here:
http://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/ncaapwcr.php
Quote:
- Minnesota
- Boston College
- Union
- Ferris State
- Wisconsin
- Quinnipiac
- UMass-Lowell
- Notre Dame
- Providence
- St. Cloud State
- Michigan
- Minnesota State
- North Dakota
- Vermont
- Colgate
- Cornell
- New Hampshire
- North Eastern
- Western Michigan
- Yale
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Also note than Mercyhurst is the top ranked school in the Atlantic Hockey Conference and they are ranked 31st in the pairwise rankings. Which means unless a team wins their conference if they are ranked below 15th they will probably not advance to the NCAA tournament.
Currently the conference playoffs are underway, they will determine the 6 conference champions and the 6 automatic berths in the Frozen Four tournament. The conference championships currently look like this:
Atlantic Hockey Tournament
Semi-Finals
Mercyhurst 4 vs. 5 Canisius 2ot
Robert Morris 5 vs. 4 Niagara ot
Finals
Canisius 4 vs. 7 Robert Morris
Robert Morris win the Atlantic Hockey Conference Championship
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Big Ten Tournament
Quarter-Finals
Ohio State 2 vs. 1 Michigan State ot
Penn State 2 vs. 1Michigan 2ot
Semi-Finals
Minnesota 1 vs 3 Ohio State
Wisconsin 2 vs 1 Penn State
Finals
Wisconsin 5 vs. 4 Ohio State ot
Wisconsin wins the Big Ten Conference Championship
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ECAC Tournament
Semi-Finals
Union 5 vs. 2 Cornell
Quinnipiac 2 vs. 3 Colgate 2ot
Finals
Union 5 vs. 2 Colgate
Union College wins the ECAC Championship
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Hockey East Tournament
Semi-Finals
UMass-Lowell 4 vs. 0 Notre Dame
Providence 1 vs. 3 New Hampshire
Finals
UMass-Lowell 4 vs. 0 New Hampshire
UMass-Lowell wins the Hockey East Championship
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NCHC Tournament
Semi-Finals
North Dakota 0 vs. 3 Miami of Ohio
Denver 4 vs. 3 Western Michigan
Finals
Denver 4 vs. 3 Miami of Ohio
Denver wins the NCHC Championship
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WCHA Tournament
Semi-Finals
Ferris State 5 vs. 4 Alaska-Anchorage ot
Bowling Green 0 vs. 4 Minnesota State
Finals
Minnesota State 4 vs. 1 Ferris State
Minnesota State wins the WCHA Conference Championship