With six schools atop the strength of schedule rankings for 2017, goaltending in the WCHA may be more difficult than in any other conference in the country. Four of the seven forwards named to the Patty Kazmaier top-ten list in 2017 were from the WCHA.
Wisconsin's Ann-Renée Desbiens, Minnesota-Duluth's Maddie
On Saturday, we'll have the four NCAA tournament quarterfinal games. The winners will advance to next week's Frozen Four. Two of the games are rematches of games we saw in the conference tournaments last week.
All the games will be available to watch on free streams from NCAA.com.
On Sunday, we'll have the conference tournament championship games for the WCHA, ECAC and Hockey East.
Robert Morris won the CHA Tournament on Saturday to earn that auto-bid, so they are our first NCAA tournament team.
Minnesota lost to Minnesota-Duluth, St. Lawrence lost to Cornell, and Boston University lost to
We're in the final stretch. Conference tournament semi-finals and finals are this weekend, and the NCAA selection show will be Sunday night at 9 PM Eastern. Just three weekends of NCAA hockey remain.
The CHA moved their conference tournament to a single week. Both Robert Morris and Syracuse received byes
It's the first week of the NCAA conference playoffs. Teams all play a best-of-three series with the top four seeds hosting.
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