I would love to try to explain all the rankings and the details that go into the selection for the national tournament but I found a great explanation of how it all works and where everything is headed. As of today, CC is a No. 3 seed playing in Rochester for the first games. This weekend's games against Minnesota are extremely crucial as CC is in a prime position to move up in the rankings...of course, they can move way down just as easy.
Because college hockey is not exactly well covered (even ESPN.com doesn't have a direct link), I think it would be awesome to bring in other thoughts from teams across the country. I would love to turn on the TV friday and saturday nights and watch a college hockey game regularly and NOT on the premium ESPNU that only has them on occasion. Although my focus is just on CC, I ultimately would want all of the ideas to be used everywhere so that we can get college hockey to at least a fraction of what football has in terms of national exposure. If other schools (ie the 
strong Minnesota schools) have certain aspects that work well, I want to hear em so that we can get this thing going in the right direction. The NHL is working to correct it's image and create a strong brand from essentially scratch. Why can't the NCAA bring it's strong product out into the mainstream?!
