Get your brackets ready: Matching each NHL team with a squad from the men’s NCAA tournament field in this week’s power rankings
despite ending the year with a run to the championship game of the SEC tournament. The Canucks still have a chance to sneak into the playoffs—as of right now they sit just outside a wild-card spot in the Western Conference—but Vancouver most likely will find itself in the same boat as Texas A&M.Dayton .
A streaky Miami team secured a March Madness berth with a scorching 12–2 run earlier this season, but have been middle-of-the-road since then. The Kings have had several strong runs themselves punctuated by stretches of mediocrity.Providence . The Friars enter the Big Dance with a 25–5 record, but Ken Pomeroy ranks Providence as the luckiest of all teams in the tournament. Underlying metrics have led to major doubts about the Rangers as well, but for not, both teams are chugging along.