(#401) Final Bracket Projection

The NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Committee will unveil the official bracket tomorrow night. The selection show is Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. ET. It will be broadcast on ESPNU and streamed on ESPN+.

Before placing teams, here's a quick refresher on how this works:

1. The top 16 teams get seeded according to the Pairwise. We'll include the top-ranked team in each conference for automatic bids.

2. The No. 1 seeds (seeds 1-4) get placed in the closest region according to geography.

3. The rest of the bracket usually runs in serpentine order, with some modifications to avoid intra-conference matchups in the first round.

Here are the qualifying teams:

1. Boston College [AQ]

2. Boston University

3. Denver [AQ]

4. Michigan State [AQ]

5. Maine

6. North Dakota

7. Minnesota

8. Wisconsin

9. Quinnipiac

10. Michigan

11. Omaha

12. Cornell [AQ]

13. Western Michigan

14. Massachusetts

15. RIT [AQ]

16. Michigan Tech [AQ]

Conference count: NCHC 4, Hockey East 4, Big Ten 4, ECAC 2, AHA 1, CCHA 1