2025 NCAA tournament Selection Sunday bracket breakdown

We know everything now.

With the winners of the ECAC and Atlantic Hockey tournaments decided relatively early on Saturday night, all 16 teams in the 2025 NCAA tournament had qualified, and by the time the Big Ten and NCHC games ended, every seed was locked in.

The bracketology geniuses — I'm certainly not one of them — said it was going to be easy to put these brackets together, and in the end, they were right.

Let's dig into who's going where, and why, when the NCAA tournament begins in just a few days:

Who's in?

This is your NCAA tournament field:

1) Boston College (Hockey East regular-season champ, at-large bid)

2) Michigan State (Big Ten regular- and postseason champ)

3) Maine (Hockey East postseason champ)

4) Western Michigan (NCHC regular- and postseason champ)

5) Minnesota (at-large bid)

6) UC