Wisconsin senior center Derek Lee, who suffered a knee injury in last Monday’s OT loss to Penn State, will not be available for the Badgers’ home series at Dane County Coliseum against WCHA leader St. Cloud State. The state high school basketball tournament at the Kohl Center prompted the move to the Badgers’ old rink.

The WCHA announced its playoff  tiebreakers. You may now drive yourself nuts trying to figure out the various scenarios.

Enjoy:

In the event that ties are encountered in the determination of WCHA ranking or designation of home teams for playoff purposes, the following procedures will be used in the order given to break the ties:

a) If two or more teams are tied, head-to-head competition during the regular (conference) season will be used to break the tie.

b) If two or more teams are still tied after (a), the highest seed will go to the team with the most WCHA (conference) wins during the regular season.

c) If two or more teams played a four-game series during the regular season and the teams have the same win-loss records for those series and the same number of WCHA wins, the team having the least number of goals scored against it in the four-game series shall have the higher rank. If two or more teams played a two-game series during the regular season, proceed to tie-breaker d).

d) If two or more teams are still tied after applying the provisions of (a), (b) and (c), the team having the greatest “winning margin” during the regular season will have the higher rank. Winning margin = WCHA goals for during the regular season minus WCHA goals against.

e) Games played against WCHA opponents in holiday tournaments will not be counted.

Also from the WCHA …