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.
 
These results include games through Sunday, Feb. 1.
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 Michigan State      26 20- 3- 3 0.8269  1 | 0.6066  4 | 21
 2 North Dakota        24 19- 4- 1 0.8125  2 | 0.6262  1 | 20
 3 Boston University   22 16- 4- 2 0.7727  4 | 0.6184  3 | 19
 4 New Hampshire       23 17- 5- 1 0.7609  5 | 0.6190  2 | 17
 5 Michigan            27 20- 6- 1 0.7593  6 | 0.5963  5 | 17
 6 Wisconsin           24 17- 6- 1 0.7292  7 | 0.5887  6 | 15
 7 Miami               25 16- 6- 3 0.7000  8 | 0.5846  7 | 15
 8 Yale                19 15- 4- 0 0.7895  3 | 0.5587  9 | 15
 9 Boston College      25 15- 7- 3 0.6600 10 | 0.5732  8 | 13
10 Colgate             21 13- 6- 2 0.6667  9 | 0.5531 10 | 12
11 St Cloud            24 14- 8- 2 0.6250 11 | 0.5460 11 | 12
12 Ohio State          26 15-10- 1 0.5962 14 | 0.5344 12 | 10
13 Northern Michigan   27 13-10- 4 0.5556 17 | 0.5338 13 |  7
14 Cornell             18  9- 7- 2 0.5556 17 | 0.5169 19 |  7
15 Colorado College    27 15-10- 2 0.5926 15 | 0.5337 14 |  6
16 Northeastern        24 14- 8- 2 0.6250 11 | 0.5327 15 |  6
17 Clarkson            19 10- 6- 3 0.6053 13 | 0.5208 17 |  6
18 Lake Superior       26 12-10- 4 0.5385 20 | 0.5035 22 |  6
19 Princeton           17  8- 5- 4 0.5882 16 | 0.5096 20 |  4
20 Rensselaer          21 10- 8- 3 0.5476 19 | 0.4796 28 |  2
21 Providence          25 12-11- 2 0.5200 21 | 0.4904 24 |  1
22 Dartmouth           19  8- 8- 3 0.5000 22 | 0.4476 33 |  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/