Recent games, including Miami's 3-1 over Ohio State Tuesday, have now
dropped Maine to 15th in the Pairwise Rankings (included below):


2000-2001 Division I Men's Pairwise Rankings (PWR)
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 Michigan State      35 27- 4- 4 0.8286  1 | 0.6281  1 | 30
 2 North Dakota        36 22- 5- 9 0.7361  4 | 0.6068  2 | 29
 3 Boston College      34 24- 8- 2 0.7353  5 | 0.6054  3 | 28
 4 Minnesota           35 25- 8- 2 0.7429  3 | 0.5830  4 | 27
 5 St. Cloud           34 25- 8- 1 0.7500  2 | 0.5751  5 | 25
 6 Michigan            37 22-10- 5 0.6622  8 | 0.5737  7 | 25
 7 Colorado College    32 21-10- 1 0.6719  6 | 0.5739  6 | 23
 8 Providence          32 19- 8- 5 0.6719  6 | 0.5674  9 | 23
 9 New Hampshire       34 19- 9- 6 0.6471 11 | 0.5687  8 | 22
10 Clarkson            30 18- 9- 3 0.6500 10 | 0.5481 13 | 20
11 Wisconsin           34 17-13- 4 0.5588 20 | 0.5499 11 | 18
12 Nebraska-Omaha      36 20-13- 3 0.5972 15 | 0.5327 18 | 18
13 Denver              34 17-13- 4 0.5588 20 | 0.5550 10 | 16
14 Western Michigan    34 18-10- 6 0.6176 13 | 0.5488 12 | 16
15 Maine               32 15-10- 7 0.5781 18 | 0.5477 14 | 16
16 St. Lawrence        30 16-10- 4 0.6000 14 | 0.5334 15 | 16
17 Mercyhurst          29 18- 9- 2 0.6552  9 | 0.5322 19 | 15
18 Quinnipiac          32 18-10- 4 0.6250 12 | 0.5331 16 | 13
19 Miami               35 19-14- 2 0.5714 19 | 0.5328 17 | 13
20 Canisius            27 14- 9- 4 0.5926 16 | 0.5088 25 | 13
21 Northern Michigan   32 14-11- 7 0.5469 24 | 0.5228 21 |  9
22 MSU-Mankato         34 18-15- 1 0.5441 25 | 0.5247 20 |  8
23 UMass-Lowell        33 16-14- 3 0.5303 28 | 0.5142 22 |  8
24 Yale                27 14-13- 0 0.5185 29 | 0.5065 27 |  8
25 Cornell             27 12-10- 5 0.5370 26 | 0.5069 26 |  7
26 Dartmouth           27 12-11- 4 0.5185 29 | 0.4924 34 |  6
27 Ohio State          32 15-15- 2 0.5000 31 | 0.5133 23 |  5
28 Alabama-Huntsville  24 14-10- 0 0.5833 17 | 0.4994 29 |  4
29 Iona                29 14-11- 4 0.5517 23 | 0.4958 31 |  2
30 Rensselaer          30 15-13- 2 0.5333 27 | 0.4918 35 |  1
31 Sacred Heart        28 13-10- 5 0.5536 22 | 0.4732 37 |  1

The Pairwise Ranking is a system which attemps to mimic the method used by
the NCAA Selection Committee to determine participants for the NCAA
Division I men's hockey tournament. The PWR compares teams at or above
.500, judging them by five criteria: record against common opponents,
record in last 16 games, head to head competition, record against other
teams at or above .500, and the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).

For each comparison won, a team receives one point. The final PWR ranking
is based on the number of points (comparisons) won against teams at or
above .500. Ties are settled by the RPI.

You can see the complete list of all the individual comparisons.

A more complete explanation of the workings of the PWR is also available
in our FAQ. There is also a FAQ available explaining the NCAA Tournament
selection process.

The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or
person, provided USCHO's URL (http://www.uscollegehockey.com/) accompanies
the results.

Note: A team's record is based only on games against other Division I
hockey schools which are eligible for the NCAA Tournament. In particular,
only non-exhibition matchups between schools in the six major conferences
count towards a team's record as used in the RPI and PWR. Other games,
including contests against Canadian schools and tournament-ineligible D-I
programs, are not counted.


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