How does wcha playoffs work

The championship will be a single game at the home rink of the highest remaining seed. Paul in The league had hosted a neutral-site tournament since The Final Five has been branded as such since We felt we had to make a change, and this is the best change. Q: Are media or coaches polls used to determine who else gets in the tournament? A: The committee uses criteria spelled out in its publicly available manual to determine which at-large teams make the NCAA tournament.

First, only teams with a winning percentage of. All teams are are compared against each other and ordered by the number of comparisons they win. The committee maintains its own rankings, but, to the best of our knowledge, when one sees the PairWise Rankings, it sees essentially the same data the committee sees. A: In practice, not really. Starting with the tournament, teams got bonus percentage points added to their RPI for defeating teams that finish the season in the top 15 of the RPI.

For , the bonus criterion was altered to give points only for a road win, as opposed to the old system, under which home and neutral-site wins also counted, albeit less than road wins.

This factor was eliminated by the committee after the tournament. A quality wins bonus was instituted starting with the season where teams got points added to their RPI for wins over teams in the top 20 of the RPI. Q: How does a team that lost in the first round of its conference tournament still get an at-large bid? A: No more importance is placed on the conference tournament games than any other games.

A: The four top-ranked teams in the tournament are awarded No. The next four are No. Attempts have been made to keep teams closest to their home region, but there is an emphasis on bracket integrity — keeping the first-round matchups as close as possible to having No.

The committee is directed to avoid first-round games between teams from the same conference unless five or more teams from one conference are selected.

In that case, the committee can prioritize maintaining bracket integrity over avoiding intra-conference matchups. A: In the past, when there was only two regions, it was a mandatory part of the procedure that two teams from each region would be moved.

Now, with four regions, the teams are be more spread out, and there is no explicit mandate to move teams. Teams are placed into bands of four, each corresponding with a seed. Teams can be moved freely within those bands, but their seed is rarely changed. The committee can move teams within bands to help out a region for attendance factors, reduce travel costs, avoid second-round intraconference matchups, or any reason it wants.

The Lakers kept their hopes alive by getting a goal and two assists from senior center Hampus Eriksson and a save performance from goaltender and Richter Award finalist Mareks Mitens. We got down two goals, and they defend so well. They were better team tonight and it showed. Beavers goalie Zach Driscoll finished with 17 saves.

Lake Superior was a national power then, with three D-I championships in the prior eight years. It has never been able to come close to that level since.