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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we ll never know who would ve won the 2020 NCAA men s hockey championship, though the four teams mostly likely to be No. 1 NCAA tournament seeds when the season was called off on March 12 could offer strong cases.
North Dakota was the top team in the PairWise Ratings, the computer formula the NCAA uses to pick its tournament field. The Fighting Hawks had rolled through the rugged NCHC and had a 26-5-4 record.
Minnesota State Mankato was No. 2 in the PairWise and boasted the most wins in the nation at 31-5-2. The Mavericks seemed poised for an NCAA breakthrough, owning a tie and a win over North Dakota and a sweep of Minnesota Duluth in the Twin Ports.