For the final months of the season there was a great deal of anticipation surrounding the Penn State hockey team. Would this be the season that the team qualifies for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history? There was a great deal of attention paid to the PairWise rankings and the Big Ten tournament seeding, but in retrospect, none of that mattered.
Penn State still has never received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, instead, Guy Gadowsky’s squad has garnered the automatic invitation that comes with winning the Big Ten Championship.