USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
December 11, 2006
Team (First Place Votes) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (40) 15-1-3 800 1
2 New Hampshire 13-2-1 750 2
3 Maine 10-3-1 690 3
4 Notre Dame 14-3-1 689 5
5 Miami 14-5-1 654 4
6 St. Cloud State 10-3-3 585 8
7 Boston College 9-5-1 547 6
8 Colorado College 11-6-1 458 9
9 Boston University 6-3-5 428 11
10 Michigan 12-7-0 400 7
11 Cornell 8-3-1 391 12
12 Denver 10-6-2 360 13
13 Vermont 9-5-1 305 14
14 Michigan State 9-7-1 293 15
15 Clarkson 11-5-1 242 17
16 Massachusetts 8-5-2 154 16
17 North Dakota 7-8-1 148 10
18 Lake Superior 11-5-2 121 20
19 Dartmouth 5-3-2 117 18
20 Quinnipiac 8-4-4 93 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Alaska 46, Alaska-Anchorage 28, Niagara 27, Wisconsin 24, Bemidji State 15, St. Lawrence 13, Northern Michigan 12, Sacred Heart 6, Nebraska-Omaha 2, RIT 2
Voters look favorably upon the new glass and reward us with moving up a spot. But more likely they looked down upon North Dakota losing to Wisconsin twice at home.
Looks like we went down a rank again. :-/
;)
Anyone else think next week Cornell will magically make up those 9 points with UMich to set up 3 top ten teams in florida?
Too bad Western has almost as many losses as Cornell, UMO, and UNH combined.
I can't remember a poll in which there was a team in the top 20 with 3 fewer wins than another team in the top 20 had losses.
[quote Trotsky]I can't remember a poll in which there was a team in the top 20 with 3 fewer wins than another team in the top 20 had losses.[/quote]
USCHO.com/CSTV Division I Men's Poll
November 13, 2006
9 Boston University 2-1-4 489
14 Wisconsin 4-6-2 227
17 St. Cloud State 2-3-3 157
Last month, but it was 4, not 3. Anyway, more proof that having a record of past success and being a historic "powerhouse" program earns you some poll inertia. (BTW, the following week, Bucky dropped out of the top 20, going from 227 voting points to 78)
It happens a lot early in the season, given the head start the Western teams tend to get on many Eastern schools. October polls are even more ridiculous (Harvard was ranked at 0-1-0, and I count 4 teams with at least 3 losses), of course, so why bother?
Edit: Another December example happened in '03-'04, and it even involved some school from Ithaca, NY:
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/?data=uscho1m&season=20032004&week=1215
[quote RichH]
Edit: Another December example happened in '03-'04, and it even involved some school from Ithaca, NY:
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/?data=uscho1m&season=20032004&week=1215[/quote]
What are you talking about? There was no college hockey that year.
North Dakota is a big joke.
Moved all the way to 10 in USA Today. (ahead of Michigan)
Since y'all are in a researching mood, can anyone find a time where we moved up two spots in an off-week?