NCAA Hockey - Regular Season Complete

NCAA Hockey Tournament Line Movers

A Line Mover is a team that

• Is currently ranked below the cutline but still can win its conference tournament thus receiving an automatic NCAA tournament bid, and
• Has a conference opponent ranked above the cutline that can also win that conference tournament.

Simple put, if a line mover wins it conference tournament the cutline currently located between ranked teams 14 and 15 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 0 teams in 0 conferences, thus the cutline could theoretically move 0 spots. The list size will quickly contract during the individual conference tournaments.