Minnesota State will find out its national tournament fate at 11 a.m. today when the NCAA Selection Show airs on ESPNU. All we really know now is that the Mavericks will be a No. 2 seed, finishing sixth in the Pairwise Rankings.
Already, the speculation has started, and if you want to see where some of the experts who cover this stuff every year have MSU in their Bracketology, check it out:
Adam Woden of College Hockey News has the Mavericks in Worcester, Mass., against Minnesota Duluth.
Mike McMahon of College Hockey News has them in Sioux Falls, S.D., against Minnesota Duluth.
Jayson Moy of U.S. College Hockey Online has them in Allentown, Pa., against Penn State.
Here's hoping for the MSU fans' sake (and mine) that the Mavericks go to Sioux Falls, which will not have its host school, North Dakota, playing. UND is 14th in the Pairwise but got bumped after so many lower-ranked teams won their conference's auto-bid, including Boston University (Hockey East), Princeton (ECAC) and Michigan Tech (WCHA). That also eliminated Minnesota by the slimmest of margins. The Gophers and Minnesota Duluth are practically tied in the PWR, but the Bulldogs have a .0001 edge over Minnesota. Crazy!
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