There is one day of NCAA hockey left before Selection Sunday. Crazy. And despite looking dead in the water a few weeks ago, Boston College is very much alive, playing for the Hockey East Championship tonight against top-seeded UMass-Lowell.
Unfortunately, any hopes for an at-large bid were extinguished yesterday due to Ohio State’s loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten semifinal. There is now no at-large path in to the tournament. There’s only one thing left to do:
Here’s your national picture.
12 teams are definitely in the NCAA tournament. Here they are, along with their potential seed ranges:
Denver [1-3] - faces Western Michigan in NCHC 3rd Place Game
Minnesota-Duluth [1-3] - faces North Dakota in NCHC Final
Harvard [2-3] - faces Cornell in ECAC final
Western Michigan [4-6] - faces Denver in NCHC 3rd Place Game
Minnesota [4-6] - idle
BU [6-7] - idle, womp womp
UMass-Lowell [4-10] - faces BC in Hockey East final
Union [7-10] - idle
North Dakota [7-11] - faces Minnesota-Duluth in NCHC Final
Cornell [7-11] - faces Harvard in ECAC final
Penn State [8-12] - faces Wisconsin in B1G final
Notre Dame [12-14] - idle
Two more NCAA tournament spots will be awarded to champions of one-bid leagues, the Atlantic Hockey Conference and the WCHA:
AHC Final -> Air Force vs.