Forget it, he's rolling
So now that NH has been out of the Hockey East tournament, I've been living on a hope and a prayer that they will get a bid to the NCAA tourney.
Stranger things have happened.
NH was in the top 5 in the polls. They've now dropped to 10th and 11th. http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/polls.php
Edit: Miami is in 4th? Real hockey teams must live north of the Mason-Dixon line. Yes, the Mighty Ducts are not a real hockey team.
NCAA tourney is a 16 team seed. 5 teams are selected by the winner of the conference, which right now is looking like Umass Lowell ( good grief ). BU, you have 3 minutes to prove me wrong! Edit: Umass Lowell won. Congrats.
So who makes it into the NCAA playoffs? Outside of the individual conference champions?
Apparently, the other 11 teams are selected by some byzantine selection method involving polls, animal sacrifice, and something called the Pair Wise Predictor
As well as a stochastic factor.
Sounds devious, doesn't it?
In any case, NH is in a tie for 7th place in the PWP. http://www.uscho.com/rankings/pwp/ Even if they lose that one, they'd be in 8th place, which by my calculations, would mean an automatic berth into the NCAA playoffs. Which would mean the first game would be an hour away. Which means...
WE'RE THERE DUDE!!
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