A Line Mover is a team that
Simple put, if a line mover wins it conference tournament the cutline currently located between ranked teams 13 and 14 will move up one position, thus eliminating a team that would have received an NCAA Tournament bid based upon its rank. If your team is ranked on the bubble you want line-moving teams to lose in their conference tournament. The list contains 14 teams in 3 conferences, thus the cutline could theoretically move up 3 spots. The list size will quickly contract during the individual conference tournaments.
| Rank | Team | ConferenceConf | MWP | RPI | Record | Probability of Winning Its Conference Tournament |
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| W | L | T | ||||||
| 16 | Penn State | Big 10Big 10 | 48 | 0.5401 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 4% |
| 28 | Wisconsin | Big 10Big 10 | 36 | 0.5133 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 1% |
| 45 | Notre Dame | Big 10Big 10 | 20 | 0.4749 | 9 | 20 | 1 | <1% |
| 18 | New Hampshire | EastEast | 45 | 0.5245 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1% |
| 23 | Merrimack | EastEast | 42 | 0.5169 | 13 | 16 | 1 | 1% |
| 24 | Vermont | EastEast | 40 | 0.5166 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 1% |
| 30 | NortheasternN. Eastern | EastEast | 34 | 0.512 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 1% |
| 15 | Arizona St. | NCHCNCHC | 49 | 0.5433 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 11% |
| 19 | North Dakota | NCHCNCHC | 45 | 0.5221 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 8% |
| 31 | Nebraska-OmahaNebr-Omaha | NCHCNCHC | 33 | 0.5102 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 8% |
| 33 | Colorado College | NCHCNCHC | 31 | 0.5063 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 5% |
| 35 | St. Cloud State | NCHCNCHC | 29 | 0.5023 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 1% |
| 40 | Minnesota-DuluthMN-Duluth | NCHCNCHC | 24 | 0.4931 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 2% |
| 63 | Miami | NCHCNCHC | 2 | 0.4046 | 3 | 23 | 2 | <1% |