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Miami’s NCAA Possibilities
The Miami-Michigan game for the CCHA tournament championship will start at 7:30 p.m. here at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. In the meantime, let’s talk about MU’s NCAA tournament possibilities.
Here’s what we’re pretty sure we know …
The winner of tonight’s game will be the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The loser will be the No. 2 overall seed. North Dakota appears to be locked in at No. 3 and New Hampshire at No. 4. So each of those schools will be a top seed in one of the regionals (Madison, Wis.; Albany, N.Y.; Worcester, Mass.; and Colorado Springs, Colo.).
Where each team will go is the issue. The latest opinion from the hockey pundits seems to have the No. 1 seed going to Madison and No. 2 going to Albany, with North Dakota going to Colorado and New Hampshire going to Worcester. There is a complicated ranking system used for all of this, but there are intangibles as well that don’t necessarily go along with the rankings, such as host schools playing at their own sites. That’s why there is a committee to sort all this out as opposed to simply following rankings. Therefore, nobody will be 100 percent sure about who’s going where until the pairings are announced at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
But Miami fans can know this: The RedHawks will be the No. 1 or 2 overall seed in the NCAA. Nothing can change that at this point. Now can they win their first-ever CCHA tournament title? We’ll know soon.
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