2011-12 hockey polls

Week of 10/17 in the week of the Red-White and women's Red-White games:

USCHO Cornell men without playing fall 19th to 20th. Yale also without playing goes from 10 to 9. Colgate off to a 3-1 start jumps from NR to 16.

Cornell women 2nd to 3rd.

[www.uscho.com]

MEN

Rank School       1st WLT Pts Last 
1 Michigan        (24) 4-0-0 933 4 
2 Boston College  (15) 3-1-0 927 1 
3 Denver          ( 4) 1-1-0 829 3 
4 Colorado College( 4) 2-0-0 785 7 
5 North Dakota         2-1-1 744 6 
6 Notre Dame           2-2-0 716 2 
7 Boston University(1) 2-1-0 672 8 
8 Minnesota       ( 1) 4-0-0 609 14 
9 Yale           ( 1) 0-0-0 600 10 
10 Miami              2-2-0 599 5 
11 Western Michigan   2-0-2 510 12 
12 Union              1-0-2 455 11 
13 Merrimack          2-0-0 396 13 
14 Ferris State       4-0-0 282 NR 
15 Minnesota-Duluth   1-3-0 278 9 
16 Colgate            3-1-0 202 NR 
17 Northern Michigan  3-1-0 143 NR 
18 Maine              1-2-1 136 17 
19 Lake Superior      4-0-0 99 NR 
20 Cornell            0-0-0 98 19

USA Today / USA Hockey with 15 not 20 spots lists Cornell men as also receiving votes.

[www.usatoday.com]

The only reason the women dropped is that Minnesota beat Wisconsin at the Kohl Center (in front of 2600) 3-2 on Sunday night. That was Wisconsin's first loss in 33 games.