Boston College men’s hockey opened up its season last night with a 2-2 tie against Quinnipiac, then won the shootout, leading us to erroneously tweet:
BC’s shootout win means the Eagles get 55% of a “win” for pairwise purposes instead of 45% if they lost. That may end up not mattering at all. But it might matter a lot!
— BC Interruption (@bcinterruption) October 8, 2021
Except... nope, this is wrong. It was a tie and goes down as such (50-50) for pairwise rankings purposes. The shootout was solely for placement purposes within the Icebreaker.