Tournament season continues for the Nittany Lions.
Penn State men’s hockey learned its seeding for the upcoming NCAA tournament on Sunday afternoon, setting up a first-round matchup against Minnesota-Duluth in the Albany Regional. That matchup is slated for 9 p.m. EDT on Friday, March 27 and will be broadcast on ESPN2.
Michigan is the No. 1 overall seed and sits on the other side of the regional bracket, facing off against Bentley in the opening round. That game will come first, with puck drop slated for 5:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
Among those four teams, the winner will advance to the Frozen Four, which will take place in Las Vegas.
The full bracket includes the following teams:
Albany Regional
No. 1 Michigan (29-7-1) vs. No 16 Bentley (23-11-5)
No. 8 Penn State (21-13-2) vs. No. 9 Minnesota-Duluth (23-14-1)
Sioux Falls Regional
No. 2 North Dakota (27-9-1) vs. No. 15 Merrimack (21-15-2)
No. 7 Providence (23-10-2) vs. No. 10 Quinnipiac (26-9-3)
Worcester Regional
No. 3 Michigan State (25-8-2) vs. No. 14 UConn (20-12-5)
No. 6 Dartmouth (23-7-4) vs. No. 11 Wisconsin (21-12-2)
Loveland Regional
No. 4 Western Michigan (26-10-1) vs. No. 13 Minnesota State (22-10-7)
No. 5 Denver (25-11-3) vs. No. 12 Cornell (22-10-1)
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