The field appears to be set for the 2023 NCAA Division I men's hockey championship.
The following schools earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship games on Saturday:
Atlantic Hockey: Canisius
Big Ten: Michigan
CCHA: Minnesota State
ECAC Hockey: Colgate
Hockey East: Boston University
NCHC: St. Cloud State
Holy Cross (Atlantic Hockey), Northern Michigan (CCHA) and Colorado College (NCHC) were eliminated from NCAA contention with championship game losses. All three needed to win their conference to gain an automatic NCAA berth.
Judging by the Pairwise Rankings, the following schools will receive at-large berths: Minnesota, Quinnipiac, Denver, Harvard, Penn State, Western Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan Tech, Cornell and Merrimack. Alaska (Fairbanks) was in the running for an at-large berth as an independent school, but was ousted by Colgate's victory.
The NCAA selection show is today at 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPNU), with four-team regionals to be contested in Allentown, Bridgeport, Fargo and Manchester from March 23-26. The only regional host school in the mix is Penn State, which must be placed in Allentown.
The four regional winners advance to the NCAA Frozen Four in Tampa on April 6.
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