Colorado College has taken a huge step forward in Kris Mayotte’s third season, but the Tigers are on the NCAA tournament bubble and need some help this weekend.
Defenseman Connor Mayer of the Colorado College Tigers is hit on the boards in the third period of the game against the Denver Pioneers Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 at Magness Arena. COLORADO SPRINGS — When Colorado College goaltender Kaidan Mbereko skated out for warmups at Magness Arena in the final installment of the Gold Pan rivalry earlier this month, there was an interesting message waiting for him.
The Tigers have leapt from winning nine games in Mayotte’s first season to the brink of the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2011. They are currently 14th in the NCAA Pairwise rankings, and squarely on the bubble for a 16-team tournament that will definitely include two automatic qualifiers from well outside the top of the rankings.
The freshman class from last season, which featured Mbereko and Laba, was a building block. The group in its first season, led by Zaccharya Wisdom, is another. CC’s top five scorers and Mbereko are all from those two classes. They snapped the skid by winning twice at Western Michigan to start the NCHC playoffs, then knocking off DU in the semifinals and getting within one game of a Cinderella run.
Colorado College could have played its way into the NCAA tournament last weekend, but two losses in three games at Robson to Omaha left the Tigers in this precarious position. The two biggest results for CC’s chances would be DU, ranked fourth, beating No. 16 St. Cloud State and No. 7 Quinnipiac winning the ECAC tournament.
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