Polls 1/17/05

USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
January 17, 2005

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Colorado College     (40)    20-3-1  600     1
 2 Boston College               14-3-3  546     2
 3 Michigan                     18-5-1  507     3
 4 Minnesota                    18-7-0  493     4
 5 Wisconsin                    17-6-1  434     5
 6 Denver                       14-6-1  358     7
 7 New Hampshire                15-5-2  353     6
 8 Colgate                      17-5-0  291    10
 9 Cornell                      11-4-2  266    11
10 Ohio State                   15-6-3  236    12
11 Boston University            13-9-0  197     8
12 North Dakota                14-10-2  163     9
13 Harvard                      10-5-2  122    14
14 Vermont                      13-7-3   85    13
15 Mass.-Lowell                 13-5-2   64    NR

Others Receiving Votes: Maine 63, Dartmouth 10,
Nebraska-Omaha 5, Bemidji State 3, Northern Michigan 2,
Bowling Green 1, Holy Cross 1

Good to see two ECACHL teams in the top ten again. This is probably the best year for ECAC(HL) hockey overall in a looooong time.

Not that I think anything is wrong with Cornell being ranked 9th, but how is HaHarvard ranked 13th? Seems like they are kind of getting the shaft by the voters... Oh well.

I don't understand how Harvard is doing so well. They looked absolutely awful when they lost at Lynah. I guess Donato found the right formula.

[q]I don't understand how Harvard is doing so well. They looked absolutely awful when they lost at Lynah. I guess Donato found the right formula.[/q]It's always hard to determine such things from a one game sample, particularly early in the season. The 95-96 Cornell team must've looked pretty awful if all you saw were the BU game (L 7-1) or the CC game (L 11-0).

[Q]canucksfan Wrote:

I don't understand how Harvard is doing so well. They looked absolutely awful when they lost at Lynah. I guess Donato found the right formula.[/q]
Early in the season they didn't look so good. But since then they've beaten BC, BU, Vermont, dominated Maine, and shut us out. They are 4 slots ahead of us in PWR and 1 slot ahead of us in KRACH. As much as I don't like Harvard, they do deserve more credit in the polls right now. Yet another good reasons polls don't mean anything.

USA Today:

January 17, 2005

   Team                           Pts (1st) Last  Record  Wks In Poll
 1 Colorado College                510 (34)   1   20-3-1   16
 2 Boston College                  474        2   14-3-3   16
 3 University of Michigan          427        3   18-5-1   16
 4 University of Minnesota         405        4   18-7-0   16
 5 University of Wisconsin         384        5   17-6-1   16
 6 University of Denver            328        7   14-6-1   16
 7 University of New Hampshire     312        6   15-5-2   16
 8 Cornell University              232       13   11-4-2   14
 9 Colgate University              227        9   17-5-0   11
10 The Ohio State University       217       12   15-6-3   14
11 Boston University               119        8   13-9-0    8
12 University of North Dakota      115       10  14-10-2   16
13 Harvard University              105       14   10-5-2    5
14 University of Vermont            90       11   13-7-3    7
15 Univ. of Massachusetts-Lowell    68       NR   13-5-2    4

Others receiving votes: University of Maine 55, 
University of Nebraska-Omaha 7, Dartmouth College 4, 
College of the Holy Cross 1. 

Jeez. An OT win over Union and a shut-out of "powerhouse" RPI move us up five places--passing both OSU and Colgate, who each won twice?

Yeah, I got nothing. No "obligatory defense" here...

Well, look at the points that each team got. Cornell barely edged out Colgate and tOSU wasn't far behind either. There's a large gap above and below this group of three teams as well. We easily could have been #10 (and probably deserve to be around there anyway).

If Cornell and Colgate continue their adjacent rankings, what happens the weekend we play the home-and-home? If one team sweeps both, then how far does Colgate fall? If we split one apiece, do we both fall?

It would be even better to see Harvard in top ten, so long as it's 2-3 places below Cornell.

More entertaining is NoDak getting swept and moving *up* four places. Well, I guess they were good losses (they were at #1 CC).