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College Hockey Insider by Mike McMahon

Pairwise Monday: UConn moves into a No. 1 seed (#519)

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Mike McMahon
Jan 27, 2025
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Today’s newsletter focuses on the Pairwise, including more on UConn’s surge in recent weeks. Today, the Huskies are a No. 1 seed. When the month began, they weren’t even in a qualifying position!

Today’s newsletter (#519) also includes:

  • Our weekly look at the inter-conference records of each conference.

  • We have some fun and put together a meaningless bracketology for people to get excited (or upset) about.

  • Pairwise takeaways on UConn and Quinnipiac, including what faces them the rest of the way in the ECAC.

  • NCAA Tournament locks and “virtual locks.”

  • The latest commitments in college hockey, including a 4.5-star defenseman for Arizona State from the WHL and a 4-star defenseman to Bowling Green.

  • The Ivy League won’t be opting into the House settlement.

  • The Youngstown Phantoms and Muskegon Lumberjacks are still in the USHL, but they have reportedly hired a prominent attorney after they were denied permission to leave the USHL for the OHL last month.

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    Now, onto today’s newsletter …

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