Sunday's NCAA women's hockey bracket announcement left many shaking their heads. Based on the Pairwise rankings and the selection criteria in the NCAA handbook, most expected Princeton, the 7th ranked team in the Pairwise, to be sent to Boston College, with Northeastern, at #6, being sent to Minnesota.
Here is the selection criteria as set forth in the women's hockey handbook:
The Women’s Ice Hockey Committee will seed the selected participants as follows:
1. The top four teams according to the selection criteria will be seeded 1-4 at the time of the selection call.