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Catie Skaja, Abigail Boreen and Emily Brown each had a goal and an assist for the top-ranked Gophers, who advance to Sundays 1 p.m. title game.

Copy shortlink: With only this weekend left in the regular season, the NCAA tournament picture is starting to take shape, though upsets in conference tournaments could bust the bracket. With a lack of cross-conference play to compare teams from different conferences like the PairWise Ratings accomplishes in non-COVID years, subjectivity will play a key role when the NCAA mens hockey committee picks the 10 at-large teams to go along with the six automatic bids given to co...

Copy shortlink: The coronavirus pandemic has kept college hockey schedule-makers on their toes this season, and rarely does a day go by without some sort of adjustment. A check of the records among Division I mens teams shows that one has played as many as 20 games (Arizona State, and every last one of them on the road) and a couple with as few as four (Canisius, UMass Lowell). With that in mind, picking the NCAA tournament field will be extra challenging this year. Usua...

Copy shortlink: Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, well never know who wouldve won the 2020 NCAA mens hockey championship, though the four teams mostly likely to be No. 1 NCAA tournament seeds when the season was called off on March 12 could offer strong cases. North Dakota was the top team in the PairWise Ratings, the computer formula the NCAA uses to pick its tournament field. The Fighting Hawks had rolled through the rugged NCHC and had a 26-5-4 record. Minnesota Sta...