Here, too late to be of any help :-), are the final KRACH ratings of the season. Teams receiving an automatic tourney bid are marked with a *. A curiosity is that, after Maine had been #1 almost all season (since Minnesota lost its perfect 6-0 record, in fact), BU grabbed the final #1 ranking on the strength of its tournament victory. KRACH, it turns out, would have selected the same four at-large teams as did the selection committee: New Hampshire, Minnesota, Denver and Michigan State, with BGSU unluckily being ranked #11 but missing out. Here, though, the tight battle is between BGSU and MSU; a different result in their CCHA semi would have made all the difference. (KRACH has liked Denver all year.) As to the Minnesota-Wisconsin seeding issue: according to KRACH, it's no contest, with Minnesota rated 258 and Wisconsin 219, despite their near-identical records; the difference is down to the Gophers' tougher schedule. Rank Last Team W L T Rating Results ============================================================ 1. 2 *Boston Univ 28- 6- 3 460 at 26:W at 25:W 2. 1 *Maine 29- 5- 6 427 at 25:L at 26:W 3. 3 *Michigan 28- 7- 1 381 at 12:L 4. 4 *Colorado College 30-11- 1 330 vs 6:W at 9:L 5. 5 New Hampshire 22- 9- 4 274 6. 7 Minnesota 23-13- 5 258 vs 14:W at 4:L at 8:W 7. 8 *Clarkson 22- 9- 4 227 at 16:L at 20:W 8. 6 Denver 24-14- 2 225 at 9:L vs 6:L 9. 11 *Wisconsin 23-14- 4 219 vs 8:W vs 4:W 10. 10 Michigan State 24-11- 3 210 vs 11:W vs 12:L 11. 9 Bowling Green 24-11- 2 206 at 10:L 12. 12 *Lake Superior 22-11- 6 196 vs 22:W vs 3:W at 10:W 13. 14 Vermont 19-14- 2 153 14. 13 North Dakota 18-18- 3 148 at 6:L 15. 15 Northeastern 16-14- 5 146 16. 16 Princeton 17-13- 3 146 vs 7:W at 17:L 17. 21 *RPI 18-13- 4 139 at 20:W vs 16:W 18. 18 Brown 15-12- 3 132 19. 20 St Cloud 17-20- 1 126 20. 17 Colgate 19-16- 1 126 vs 17:L vs 7:L 21. 22 Minnesota-Duluth 16-18- 4 124 22. 19 Miami 18-15- 6 123 at 12:L 23. 23 Michigan Tech 14-20- 4 116 24. 25 Harvard 14-14- 2 110 25. 27 Providence 14-17- 6 107 vs 2:W vs 1:L 26. 24 Mass Lowell 17-19- 4 106 vs 1:L vs 2:L 27. 26 Western Michigan 15-18- 5 101 28. 28 Merrimack 13-16- 5 98 29. 29 St Lawrence 12-17- 1 92 30. 30 Cornell 10-14- 4 90 31. 31 Northern Mich 12-24- 3 83 32. 32 Ferris State 12-20- 4 77 33. 33 Dartmouth 9-16- 2 72 34. 34 Alaska-Anchorage 11-25 67 35. 35 Boston College 11-22- 2 65 36. 36 Illinois-Chicago 11-22- 4 65 37. 37 Union 8-16- 4 64 38. 38 Yale 8-17- 3 63 39. 39 Notre Dame 9-25- 1 43 40. 40 Alaska-Fairbanks 7-21- 1 38 41. 41 Air Force 5-15- 1 32 42. 42 Ohio State 6-28- 2 31 43. 43 Mass Amherst 6-27- 1 30 44. 44 Army 1-10 20