{"id":447628,"date":"2026-02-05T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/447628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:12:19","slug":"ncaa-hockey-bracketology-february-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/447628\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Hockey Bracketology: February 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of this morning, the NCAA Tournament picture looks like this, based on NPI and conference standings. Please note that projected conference tournament winners are in italics and are based on current in-conference point percentage:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Locks (5): Michigan, Michigan State, North Dakota, Western Michigan, Penn State<br \/>Safe (5): Providence, Cornell, Minnesota-Duluth, Quinnipiac, Dartmouth<br \/>Bubble In (5): Denver, Boston College, St. Thomas, Wisconsin, UConn<br \/>Automatic Qualifiers (1): Bentley<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bubble Out (5): Augustana, Minnesota State, UMass, Miami, Michigan Tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My projected bracket looks like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some things to note here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 2 Michigan State- Friday at MICH (7pm), Saturday in Detroit (6:30pm on BTN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 3 North Dakota at No. 8 Minnesota-Duluth- Friday (8pm) and Saturday (7pm)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 4 Western Michigan at No. 19 Miami- Friday (7pm) and Saturday (6pm)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 16 Augustana at No. 20 Michigan Tech- Friday (7pm) and Saturday (5pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of this morning, the NCAA Tournament picture looks like this, based on NPI and conference standings. Please&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,2149],"class_list":{"0":"post-447628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-penn-state-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116019855354216703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}