Polls 12/29

USCHO Division I Men's Poll

December 29, 2003

Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 North Dakota (32) 13-2-0 592 1
2 Boston College (8) 13-2-3 568 2
3 Wisconsin 12-4-4 499 4
4 Maine 12-4-1 431 3
5 Denver 13-6-3 424 5
6 Colorado College 9-4-3 391 7
7 New Hampshire 11-6-2 371 6
8 St. Cloud State 12-6-2 303 10
9 Michigan 12-7-1 263 8
10 Cornell 6-2-5 223 15
11 Massachusetts 9-4-5 206 9
12 Ohio State 12-8-0 188 11
13 Dartmouth 5-2-5 112 14
14 Minnesota 9-8-1 81 NR
15 Miami 11-7-2 77 13


Others Receiving Votes: Brown 20, Notre Dame 18,
Harvard 9, Minnesota-Duluth 9, Boston University 7,
Rensselaer 5, Mercyhurst 2, Providence 1

Higher than most of us expected. Sweet!

We moved up to #10...which is about high as any of us in #lynah last night thought we'd go, tops. That's certainly great for us.

Same in the USA Today:

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
December 29, 2003

   Team                               Pts (1st) Last Record
 1 University of North Dakota         503 (27)   1   13-2-0
 2 Boston College                     483 (7)    2   13-2-3
 3 University of Wisconsin            417        4   12-4-4
 4 Colorado College                   377        5    9-4-3
 5 University of Maine                353        3   12-4-1
 6 University of Denver               323        8   13-6-3
 7 University of New Hampshire        295        7   11-6-2
 8 St Cloud State University          238       10   12-6-2
 9 University of Michigan             212        6   12-7-1
10 Cornell University                 192       14    6-2-5
11 University of Massachusetts        186        9    9-4-5
12 Ohio State University              183       11   12-8-0
13 Dartmouth College                  139       13    5-2-5
14 Miami University (Ohio)             84       15   11-7-2
15 University of Minnesota             50       NR    9-8-1

Others receiving votes: University of Notre Dame 17, 
Brown University 10, Ferris State University 6, 
Boston University 5, Michigan State University 3,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3, 
College of the Holy Cross 1.

Post Edited (12-29-03 20:53)

More important was the significant move in Krach even though it is a shadow of the PWR.

Up to #8 at Inside College Hockey.

[insidecollegehockey.com]

The best part of the Inside college hockey poll:

Dropped out: Harvard

Justin Nachod '04 wrote:

Dropped out: Harvard

The only instance of how people can drop out and still get As.

Contributing to thread drift, did anyone catch the "cocktail napkin" story listing the 14 stories they "missed" in 2003:

[www.insidecollegehockey.com]

[q]
David LeNeveu: "Yeah, it's pretty much the system."
[/q]

[Q]Local newspaper reporter fabricates NCAA game stories without leaving town; convinces fans that they won the national title.[/Q]

[Q]Fan reaches over plexiglass, extends UNH's NCAA Tournament misery another year.[/Q]

Steve Bartman is a UNH fan, too?

notice harcard isn't on that list

Weekend results of teams immediately above and below us:

7. UNH, L-Yale
8. St. Cloud, T-NoDak, tonight vs NoDak
9. Michigan, idle
10. Cornell, idle
11. UMass, L-Lowell
12. OSU, idle
13. Dartmouth, W-Vermont

So, I'd expect us to stay put at #10, unless St. Cloud really gets blown out, or the voters really punish UNH.



Post Edited (01-03-04 22:15)

Greg Berge '85 wrote:

So, I'd expect us to stay put at #10, unless St. Cloud really gets blown out, or the voters really punish UNH.

Maybe the voters will finally see that UHN isn't playing up to their potential this season--tied for #19 in the pairwise, a rather lukewarm 11-7-2 overall record, few wins over good opponents. Obviously, the voters keep seeing last season's championship game, but that was last year's team.

Hey, it could happen.

Yep, there have been several comments to that effect on USCHO. UNH has now won just one of their last 5 games, and had gotten blown out by Niagara, Providence, and Merrimack at home.

I think they were living off the early November week when they bombed BU and Maine and tied BC, but since then they've basically been Harvard.

Maybe they're headed for a big plunge in the polls.

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:
Obviously, the voters keep seeing last season's championship game, but that was last year's team.

LOL... or maybe the semifinal, since they didn't look all that great in the championship game.

Josh Herman '99 wrote:

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:
Obviously, the voters keep seeing last season's championship game, but that was last year's team.

LOL... or maybe the semifinal, since they didn't look all that great in the championship game.

True, though what I was trying to say is, the fact that they made it that far still counts for something, even though that was last season and this is this season.