How to watch the NCAA Men's Hockey Selection Show
Brackets and matchups will be announced live on ESPNU at 6:30pm ET. If you don't have cable, you can stream on services like DirecTV Stream, Sling, Fubo, Hulu Live TV, and YouTube TV.
The Globe will update this article as pairings are announced, so bookmark this page.
Which teams will qualify for the NCAA men's hockey slot?
There are six leagues in Division I men's hockey, and the winner of each conference tournament automatically earns a berth to the NCAA Tournament.
The conference tournament winners are:
Hockey East: boston college
ECAC: cornell
Big Ten: michigan
atlantic hockey: Rochester Institute of Technology
Cha: Michigan Technological University
NCHC: denver
The other 10 teams will be selected based on their ratings.
The NCAA has long used an objective eligibility system to determine the field for hockey championships, avoiding the derogatory arguments common in football and basketball. In its current iteration, called Pairwise, each of Division 1's 64 teams is evaluated against his three criteria: head-to-head record (if the teams played against each other), head-to-head record against common opponents, and the rating percentage index itself. You will be scored against other teams based on A routine comparison tool between teams.
The top 10 schools in the tournament by pairwise rating are Boston College, Maine, North Dakota State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac, Michigan State, Omaha Nebraska, Western Michigan, and the University of Massachusetts.
Denver defeated Nebraska-Omaha in the NCHC title game, narrowly defeated the University of Colorado, and the University of Massachusetts advanced to the tournament.
Hockey East had its best finish in the tournament since winning four spots in 2017 (though Harvard was the fifth New England team to advance to the Frozen Four that year). Ta).
The 16 teams participating in the tournament and their pairwise ratings are as follows (local teams in bold):
1. Boston University, 2. Boston University3. Denver, 4. Michigan State, 5.Maine6. North Dakota, 7. Minnesota, 8. Wisconsin, 9. Quinnipiac10. Michigan, 11. Nebraska-Omaha, 12. Cornell, 13. Western Michigan, 14.UMass21. RIT, 32. Michigan Technological University.
NCAA Hockey Regional Game Schedule and Matchups
The four locations for the regional tournament, which begins Thursday, are: Providence; Maryland Heights, Missouri.Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Schools that host a region are automatically sent to your home site. UMass hosts the Springfield region, so they will be incorporated into that region. Nebraska-Omaha is being held in South Dakota, so they will be heading there.
Boston University is expected to be in Providence. Bad luck for Boston College fans. Despite being the No. 2 overall seed, the Terriers could be sent to South Dakota to avoid an intraconference matchup in the regional round, but it also means BU and BC could meet in the national title game. do.
The schedule for regional competitions is as follows (will be updated after brackets are announced):
Thursday March 28th and Saturday March 30th: Springfield and Sioux Falls games
Friday 29th March and Sunday 31st March: Providence vs. Maryland Heights game
Frozen 4 2024 and tournament history
The Frozen Four will be held April 11th and 13th at the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Last year in Tampa, Quinnipiac defeated Minnesota for the first championship in school history. The ninth-seeded Bobcats will have a tough road back to the title game.
Boston College is seeking its first crown since 2012 and sixth time in school history (others: 1949, 2001, 2008, 2010, 2012). The Eagles haven't faced the Frozen Four since 2016 and last appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2021.
Boston College has won five titles (1971, 1972, 1978, 1995, 2009) and advanced to the Frozen Four last year, losing 6-2 to Minnesota.
The University of Massachusetts won its only title of 2021 with a win over St. Cloud State University. This will be the Minutemen's fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
This will be Maine's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2012. The Black Bears won it all in 1993 and 1999 and have appeared in the championship a total of five times, but have not appeared since 2004.
Globe correspondent John Couture contributed to this article.
Katie McInerney can be reached at katie.mcinerney@globe.com.follow her @k8tmac.
