Too early for the PWR? Princeton and Brown say no!

[mookie1995]

On Siouxsports.com it shows Union as #12, 1 comparison ahead of UNO, Dartmouth and Merrimack.

I thought onion was 26?!?

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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I'm not going to lie, it really is nice to see an early tournament field that excludes both Maine and BU.

[J.D.]

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Bridgeport:
Yale vs UNO, RPI vs Notre Dame

Green Bay:
Duluth vs AH Champion, Wisconsin vs Merrimack

Manchester:
North Dakota vs Dartmouth, Michigan vs New Hampshire

St. Louis:
Denver vs Union, BC vs Western Michigan

Attendance wise, not a whole lot to change. Bridgeport, Green Bay and Manchester are solid attendance wise, and St. Louis is going to be difficult regardless. You could swap DU and North Dakota...and that would probably be the only change I would make attendance wise.

Completely agree with your bracket and I also think that the committe would indeed swap UND and DU for attendance reasons.

[redwings8831]

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Completely agree with your bracket and I also think that the committe would indeed swap UND and DU for attendance reasons.

Well as the higher seed, shouldn't UND be given the closer site to them in the first place? Both teams will have to fly regardless so it wouldn't really be a switch.

[du78]

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Completely agree with your bracket and I also think that the committe would indeed swap UND and DU for attendance reasons.

That sets it up for a UND/BC regional final

[sfo19]

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That sets it up for a UND/BC regional final

Let's be honest... that is nothing new. Color me SHOCKED.

[J.D.]

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That sets it up for a UND/BC regional final

It does? I was thinking since UND lost to Yale last year, they'd go ahead and lose to another Ivy

Well as the higher seed, shouldn't UND be given the closer site to them in the first place? Both teams will have to fly regardless so it wouldn't really be a switch.

Good point.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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It does? I was thinking since UND lost to Yale last year, they'd go ahead and lose to another Ivy

It doesn't work that way. The #2 seed would lose their opener, while the #1 seed would advance out of the regional

Either way, I don't see UND and BC being in the same regional this year, as I think both will be 1 seeds.

[Priceless]

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Well as the higher seed, shouldn't UND be given the closer site to them in the first place? Both teams will have to fly regardless so it wouldn't really be a switch.

Anything over 400 miles is a flight. A flight is a flight.

Once the plane takes off it doesn't matter where it lands. I've been trying to convince my travel agent of this, but no dice.

[acs64]

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I'm not going to lie, it really is nice to see an early tournament field that excludes both Maine and BU.

Dont worry, one or both of us will be in the tournament field this year to take out BC.

[streaker]

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Well, looking at the current pairwise, some changes since last time...

#1 Seeds:
Yale, Duluth, North Dakota, Denver

#2 Seeds:
BC, Michigan, Wisconsin, RPI

#3 Seeds:
Notre Dame, New Hampshire, Merrimack, Western Michigan

#4 Seeds:
Union, UNO, Dartmouth, AH Champion

Bracket Integrity Bracket: (Priority given to keeping QF matchups correct (ie 1v8, 2v7))

Bridgeport:
Yale vs UNO, RPI vs Notre Dame

Green Bay:
Duluth vs AH Champion, Wisconsin vs Merrimack

Manchester:
North Dakota vs Dartmouth, Michigan vs New Hampshire

St. Louis:
Denver vs Union, BC vs Western Michigan

Attendance wise, not a whole lot to change. Bridgeport, Green Bay and Manchester are solid attendance wise, and St. Louis is going to be difficult regardless. You could swap DU and North Dakota...and that would probably be the only change I would make attendance wise.

Some late tweaks due to games this week:

1 seeds stay the same-Yale, UMD, UND, Denver.
Michigan moves to #5, BC #6 RPI #7 Wisconsin #8
#9 ND,#10 UNH, #11 Merrimack stay, but Dartmouth moves to a third seed at #12
#13 Union, #14 UNO and now Miami enters at #15, #16 AHA Champ

Western Michigan is out (and is #16 as of now)

Maybe sets up:

Bridgeport:

Yale vs. UNO, BC vs. Dartmouth

Manchester:

UMD vs. RIT, RPI vs. UNH

Green Bay:

UND vs. Miami, Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame

St. Louis:

Denver vs. Union, Michigan vs. Merrimack

Just a guess, based on integrity, geography and attendance.

Integrity took a slight hit for attendance. UMD could be flipped with UND.

[Priceless]

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At the moment Yale is in a bracket with the AHA Champ, RPI and Merrimack.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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At the moment Yale is in a bracket with the AHA Champ, RPI and Merrimack.

At least for the moment, that's no longer the case.

The brackets, as I see it...

Bridgeport: (32)
#1 Yale vs #14 UNO
#6 BC vs #11 Notre Dame

Manchester: (34)
#2 DU vs #16 AH Champ
#7 RPI vs #9 UNH

Green Bay: (36)
#3 UMD vs #15 Dartmouth
#8 Wisconsin vs #10 Merrimack

St. Louis: (34)
#4 UND vs #13 Western Michigan
#5 Michigan vs #12 Union

[komey1]

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At least for the moment, that's no longer the case.

The brackets, as I see it...

Manchester: (34)
#2 DU vs #16 AH Champ
#7 RPI vs #9 UNH

Soooo, we get RIT (current AH leader) vrs DU in the East again, then possibly UNH. Where have we seen this before

[Priceless]

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Bridgeport		Manchester		St Louis		Green Bay
Yale			Denver			North Dakota		Minn-Duluth
BC			RPI			Michigan		Wisconsin
W Michigan		UNH			Merrimack		Notre Dame
UNO			AHA Champ		Union               	Dartmouth