This weekend the 2009 Division I NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Field was announced. Six schools earned automatic bids after winning their respective conference tournaments with 10-at-large bids being given out to fill the last of the 16 spots.
No. 1 Boston University Terriers were given the number one overall seed in the tournament after they won the Hockey East Association Tournament earning one of the auto-bids and regaining the number one spot in the national rankings.
The other five schools were No. 2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish from the CCHA, No. 5 Yale Bulldogs from the ECAC, No. 8 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs from the WCHA, No. 14 Air Force Falcons from Atlantic Hockey and the Bemidji State Beavers from the CHA.
Bemidji State is the only school not ranked in the USCHO.com poll in the tournament. They are the 16th seed in the tournament.
Air Force is the only team not in the Top 15 to make the tournament.
Notre Dame and BU are the only Auto-bid schools to receive a No. 1 seed. The other two one seeds are No. 4 University of Denver Pioneers and the No. 3 University of Michigan Wolverines.
All games will be played starting Friday, March 27th - Sunday, March 29th. If a regional starts Friday it finishes Saturday, if it starts Saturday, it finishes Sunday.
Number of Teams by conference: HEA, CCHA (4), WCHA, ECAC (3), AHA, CHA (1).
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