polls - 11/25

USCHO.com:

November 25, 2002

   Team      (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Boston College     (11)     9-1-1  541     1
 2 North Dakota       ( 9)    11-1-0  526     3
 3 New Hampshire      (10)     8-2-2  518     2
 4 Maine              ( 7)     9-1-1  463     7
 5 Denver             ( 2)    10-2-2  444     4
 6 Colorado College   ( 1)     9-1-2  444     6
 7 Cornell                     6-1-0  343     8
 8 Michigan                    9-2-1  340     5
 9 Minnesota                   7-3-3  254     9
10 Ferris State               11-3-0  244    12
11 Boston University           6-3-2  212    10
12 Miami                      12-3-1  189    11
13 Harvard                     5-2-0  106    15
14 Providence                  8-4-1   54    14
15 Ohio State                  8-4-1   52    13

Others receiving votes: Dartmouth 29, St. Cloud State 16,
Northern Michigan 6, Minnesota-Duluth 5, Yale 4, Brown 3,
Notre Dame 3, Massachusetts 2, Bemidji State 1, 
Quinnipiac 1

#7!

Furthermore, we got 343 points this weekend compared to 259 last week, which is a big surge. Also, on the (early) PWR, we're #1!

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Top 15 Hockey Poll


The USA Today/American Hockey Magazine weekly Top 15 college 
hockey poll with first-place votes in parentheses, record, total 
points and previous ranking: 

(as of Monday, November 25) 

     TEAM                                   PTS   PVS
     ----                                   ---   ---
  1. Boston College (5) 9-1-1               235     1
  2. New Hampshire (6) 6-1-2                233     2 
  3. North Dakota (2) 11-1-0                208    t4
  4. Maine (2) 9-1-1                        198     7     
  5. Denver (1) 10-2-2                      190     3
  6. Colorado College (1) 9-1-2             189    t4
  7. Cornell 6-1-0                          153     8    
  8. Michigan 9-2-1                         140     6
  9. Minnesota 7-3-3                        113     9
 10. Ferris State 11-3-0                    107   t12
 11. Miami (Ohio) 12-3-1                     81    11
 12. Boston University 6-3-2                 77    10
 13. Harvard 5-2-0                           47    15 
 14. Ohio State 8-4-1                        27    14
 15. Providence College 8-4-1                20   t12


Others receiving votes:  St. Cloud 6, Dartmouth 5, Brown 3, 
UMass-Lowell 3, Northern Michigan 3, UMass-Amherst 2

But #6 and #5 have 444 points. Seems like it may be real difficult for us to break into #6. We'll probably stay at #7 even IF we sweep this weekend (not that that's the end of the world).

Great to see six different teams get first place votes in both polls.

Also, it's interesting to see the similarities between the 2 polls, with only a couple teams flip-flopped in position.

But the real reason I'm posting is to wonder who the heck gave UMass-Lowell votes? They're 0-7 in Hockey East games so far, and 4-8 overall. One win vs. Colorado College goes a long way.

Cornell is also #1 on the season's first CHODR listings found at [it.stlawu.edu]

Just keep winning. It will take a fairly long time to get voter respect, but that's ok (and understandable, given the ECAC's failure to win a national championship for 13 seasons).

The next 6 games are all NC (and complete the NC slate in the RS). I am hoping the Big Red can pick up 8 points in those games to keep pace with the other national contenders. Anything more than that would be cause for a huge celebration. Less would have to be considered a setback.

Wow, the CHODR predicts we'll win against BU by 4.16 to 1.70.

RedAR wrote:

But #6 and #5 have 444 points. Seems like it may be real difficult for us to break into #6. We'll probably stay at #7 even IF we sweep this weekend (not that that's the end of the world).

Pretty much no matter what we do, until somebody who's currently top 6 loses some games, we're stuck at #7. (And for that matter, if all those teams keep winning, and we keep winning, and Michigan or Ferris keeps winning, I think we'll probably get dropped to #8 through no fault of our own.)

I'd like to know how Brown still got votes after a no-goal weekend...