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Originally Posted by Zimmer4141
Michigan has every game left against unranked teams. I don't think they can afford to lose any of those games, and they have to get to the Final 4 of the CCHA Playoffs, and hopefully that will be enough to sneak in as a 3/4 seed.
Michigan is 19th in the Pairwise rankings. They'll probably need to make it to 15th or 14th to get a 4 seed to the tourney. All it takes is a team like Bemidji losing in their conference tourney to shrink the number of at-larges available (Bemidji is a lock...but if they lose in the conf tourn then some team that would not have gotten in otherwise will steal a spot). Perhaps same scenario in the CCHA or ECAC if Miami or Cornell go down and allow an extra team to make it.
Yeah, 6-0 or 5-1 for Michigan in their last 6 against a less spectacular schedule might get them there (as well as getting to CCHA semis). Looks like a pretty down year in the CCHA. Miami is #1 and then you go down to 13 and 14 with Ferris St and Michigan St. So realistically the CCHA is at risk of perhaps sending only 2 teams to the tournament. Is it actually possible for the CCHA to end up as a 1 bid league this year if Miami wins the conf tourney? Wow, that would be incredible if it happened but it's not completely impossible (although somewhat unrealistic) if Ferris and MSU blow it down the stretch.
WCHA looks good to get 6 teams in there with Denver, Wisc, St. Cloud, Colo Coll, Minn-Duluth, North Dakota. Hockey East would have four with BC, Maine, Mass, Vermont and maybe NH.
ECAC is a two team league at best right now and perhaps only one with Cornell at 15 and Yale and Union tied at 17.