Everything You Need to Know About PWR

In last week's column, Mitch and I provided an introduction to the NCAA hockey tournament selection process. Last night on eLynah, Robb put together a much more comprehensive run-down of Cornell's chances of winning pairwise comparisons against each of the other 24 teams under consideration (TUCs). Head over to eLynah to read the whole thing, otherwise here is Robb's analysis of what we should root for the rest of the season:

Cornell
SLU over anybody but us
Miami, Denver, and Wisconsin over everyone, since we can't catch them anyway
NoDak over SCSU
NoDak over UMD
Anybody over FSU
Anybody over UMass
Anybody over BC
Anybody over MSU
BU and UNH over UVM and Maine
Non-TUCs vs. Nodak
BU over UML
Anybody over Michigan
Anybody over LSSU
CC over Minnesota
Northeastern over UNH
BU over Northeastern
Anybody over Notre Dame

These results either strengthen Cornell's RPI, lower the RPI of teams near us in the pairwise, or help flip comparisons by improving our record with common opponents and teams under consideration. Complicated...

Cornell is tied for 10th in the current pairwise.