Polls 1/24/05

USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
January 24, 2005

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Boston College       (29)    15-3-3  586     2
 2 Colorado College     (10)    20-4-2  546     1
 3 Wisconsin             (1)    19-6-1  490     5
 4 Michigan                     19-6-1  470     3
 5 Denver                       16-6-1  439     6
 6 New Hampshire                16-5-2  380     7
 7 Minnesota                    18-9-0  361     4
 8 Cornell                      13-4-2  341     9
 9 Colgate                      18-6-0  254     8
10 Ohio State                   16-7-3  245    10
11 Harvard                      10-5-2  149    13
12 North Dakota                14-10-2  147    12
13 Mass.-Lowell                 14-5-3  126    15
14 Boston University           13-10-1  120    11
15 Maine                        13-8-5   72    NR

Others Receiving Votes: Vermont 32, 
Northern Michigan 29, Dartmouth 8, Bemidji State 2,
Michigan State 1, Michigan Tech 1, Nebraska-Omaha 1

My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.

[Q]Chris 02 Wrote:

USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll

Others Receiving Votes: Vermont 32,
Northern Michigan 29, Dartmouth 8, Bemidji State 2,
Michigan State 1, Michigan Tech 1, Nebraska-Omaha 1

My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.



Edited 1 times. Last edit at 01/24/05 05:18PM by Chris 02.[/q]

A real Yuper no doubt!

This vote may have been influenced by lager, temperature or both.

[q]My two cents...someone is nuts if they think Michigan Tech really deserves 15th in the country, despite their upset of Minny.[/q]Well, the WCHA is clearly the best conference in the country. Obviously even their worst team must be better than any of the pretenders from back east. Plus MTU the incredible University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), which everyone knows is god's gift to college hockey!

The poll standings look about right to me, though I remain somewhat skeptical about Wisconsin. The next three weekends (Denver, at Minny, CC) will answer that question though.

MTU also recently split a series at #5 Denver, the loss by only one goal. I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. No more harm done than when Robert Morris got a vote in the 10/25 USCHO poll after they got their first win as a D-I program.

USA Today Poll

January 24, 2005

Team Pts (1st) Last Record Wks In Poll
1 Boston College 502 (27) 2 15-3-3 17
2 Colorado College 463 (6) 1 20-4-2 17
3 University of Wisconsin 448 5 19-6-1 17
4 University of Michigan 404 (1) 3 19-6-1 17
5 University of Denver 373 6 16-6-1 17
6 University of New Hampshire 338 7 16-5-2 17
7 University of Minnesota 292 4 18-9-0 17
8 Cornell University 281 8 13-4-2 15
9 The Ohio State University 219 10 16-7-3 15
10 Colgate University 210 9 18-6-0 12
11 Harvard University 149 13 10-5-2 6
12 University of North Dakota 100 12 14-10-2 17
13 Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell 95 15 14-5-3 5
14 Boston University 88 11 13-10-1 9
15 University of Maine 85 NR 13-8-5 16

Others receiving votes: Northern Michigan University 16,
University of Vermont 14, College of the Holy Cross 1,
University of Nebraska Omaha 1, Michigan Tech University 1.

Wow, the loss was devastating to Colgate. We move ahead of them by one place in USCHO and open it up from one place to two in USA Today.

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. [/q]

I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence. Schools like St. Cloud are "rebuilding", the Tech Huskies are just playing the overrated (at #4 that is) and underplaying Gophers, who will keep losing unless Briggs steps up his goaltending. They simply do not have the defensive talent to make up for poor goaltending. Thank God Cornell doesn't recruit the "offensive defensemen."

Personally, I'm pretty happy to see Michigan tech succeed, for no other reason than Jamie Russel is the coach. If Michigan Tech could magically turn into a hockey power, not only would it reflect well on the Cornell coaching staff (to a very small degree), but it would give Cornell a connection in the WCHA, something that sounds awfully nice to me.

[Q]ajec1 Wrote:

jmh30 Wrote:

I don't think there's any harm in giving a rebuilding program a credit for a good string of form. [/Q]
I respect that, but in the case of the tech school in question, don't you have to have something to rebuild? MTU is hardly a bastion of hockey excellence. Schools like St. Cloud are "rebuilding", the Tech Huskies are just playing the overrated (at #4 that is) and underplaying Gophers, who will keep losing unless Briggs steps up his goaltending. They simply do not have the defensive talent to make up for poor goaltending. Thank God Cornell doesn't recruit the "offensive defensemen."[/q]

Maybe it's for the best that my reply was erased when I hit "attach" instead of "post"

Freshmen...

 

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2005 09:28PM by atb9.