EZAC

Remember how the ECAC was supposed to be good this year, with three teams (Yale, Cornell, Princeton) ranked in the top 10 in polls at the start of the season?

As of right now, Cornell is the only ECAC team making the NCAA tournament, and that's because we're leading the conference so we're expected to win the ECAC tournament. Of course, I don't think that will happen (think 6-2 Harvard in 2006 and 5-0 Yale in 2009). Either way, it looks like it'll take a strong tournament run for two ECAC teams to make the NCAA tournament.

Bracketology has us in the East Regional in Albany, which is perfect. Unfortunately, our bad seed means that we have to get through Wisconsin, and then either North Dakota or Boston College, to get to the Frozen Four. No Bemidji State this time.

East Regional:

Cornell vs. Wisconsin
North Dakota vs. Boston College

Let's see here... Wisconsin is certainly dangerous; case in point: beat the U-18 team 7-1 (Cornell lost to them 3-2). North Dakota is better than us, as became clear a few weeks ago at Lynah. Since mid-January, Boston College has beaten Harvard 6-0, toppled UMass 7-1, and trounced Maine 6-1. Hmm.

Yes, yes, things change, and Cornell's seed will hopefully improve a little. But even with improvement we're looking at a 3 or 4 seed in the NCAA tournament, which means a very tough two games to get to the FF.