We’re onto the final week of the regular season for Boston College men’s hockey, and in addition to locking up the Hockey East regular season championship, BC is now locked in to at least finish the regular season #1 in the Pairwise rankings. Even if they lose at Merrimack next week and their foes BU and North Dakota win their final two, the Eagles will still head into the conference playoffs atop the national leaderboard.
That doesn’t mean BC is locked in to the #1 overall seed for NCAAs quite yet, though. BU and North Dakota both could be within striking distance should the Eagles falter early in the Hockey East tournament and one of BU/NoDak wins their conference title.