After months of waiting we now have some idea of how the NCAA hockey tournament field will be selected. Pairwise criteria will be used to help rank teams within their conference, and then the eye test will give the traditional committee plus a panel of six coaches the flexibility to sort teams out and award bids to each conference.
Now that we know roughly how things will look we can take our first swing at predicting what the tournament field would look like if the season ended today.
A few ground rules:
1) This is based on ending the season today - not predicting what is going to happen the rest of the season.