U.S. College Hockey Online presents:
The 1997-98 PairWise Rankings (PWR)
 
Note: The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or
person, provided USCHO's URL (http://uscollegehockey.com/) accompanies
the results.
 
Only games against teams eligible for the NCAA tournament are counted.
 
These results include games through Sunday, March 8.
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 North Dakota        34 27- 6- 1 0.8088  2 | 0.6161  2 | 19
 2 Boston University   33 26- 5- 2 0.8182  1 | 0.6192  1 | 18
 3 Michigan State      36 27- 5- 4 0.8056  3 | 0.6150  3 | 17
 4 Michigan            36 26- 9- 1 0.7361  5 | 0.5901  4 | 16
 5 New Hampshire       32 22- 9- 1 0.7031  7 | 0.5762  5 | 14
 6 Clarkson            29 19- 7- 3 0.7069  6 | 0.5699  7 | 14
 7 Yale                29 22- 6- 1 0.7759  4 | 0.5648  8 | 13
 8 Boston College      34 21- 8- 5 0.6912  8 | 0.5714  6 | 12
 9 Ohio State          34 21-11- 2 0.6471 10 | 0.5560  9 | 12
10 Wisconsin           34 20-13- 1 0.6029 11 | 0.5456 11 | 10
11 Colorado College    36 22-11- 3 0.6528  9 | 0.5485 10 |  9
12 St Cloud            32 17-13- 2 0.5625 15 | 0.5368 12 |  8
13 Miami               34 18-12- 4 0.5882 12 | 0.5310 13 |  6
14 Northeastern        34 18-13- 3 0.5735 14 | 0.5310 14 |  6
15 Minnesota-Duluth    33 16-15- 2 0.5152 19 | 0.5185 16 |  6
16 Northern Michigan   34 16-14- 4 0.5294 17 | 0.5186 15 |  4
17 Lake Superior       34 15-15- 4 0.5000 20 | 0.5059 20 |  3
18 Rensselaer          31 16-11- 4 0.5806 13 | 0.5085 19 |  2
19 Colgate             31 14-13- 4 0.5161 18 | 0.4956 24 |  1
20 Princeton           27 11- 9- 7 0.5370 16 | 0.4913 26 |  0
 
The PairWise Ranking is the ranking system used the NCAA Selection
Committee in determining selections for the NCAA hockey tournament. The
PWR compares all teams at or above .500, judging them by five criteria:
common opponents, record in last 20 games, head to head meetings, record
against teams at or above .500, and the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).
 
The current PWR (updated constantly), can be found on the World Wide Web
at http://uscollegehockey.com/