USCHO Division I Men's Poll
November 3, 2003
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 Maine (30) 7-0-0 580 1
2 North Dakota (9) 4-1-0 543 2
3 New Hampshire (1) 4-1-0 494 3
4 Michigan 7-1-0 478 4
5 Boston College 3-2-1 411 5
6 Colorado College 5-0-1 403 8
7 Denver 5-1-0 360 6
8 Boston University 2-1-1 269 7
9 Minnesota-Duluth 4-2-1 244 12
10 St. Cloud State 5-0-1 193 13
11 Minnesota 2-4-0 171 10
12 Massachusetts 5-1-0 118 14
13 Harvard 0-1-0 106 9
14 Ohio State 6-3-0 100 NR
15 Cornell 0-1-1 91 11
Others Receiving Votes: Providence 86, Notre Dame 60,
Brown 27, Dartmouth 18, Michigan State 15, Mercyhurst 10,
Western Michigan 9, Clarkson 6, Union 6, Colgate 2
No big surprise here with our ranking. Remarkably seven ECAC schools got votes! That's one more than Hockey East, WCHA, two more than CCHA, and considerably more than AHA or CHA.
Post Edited (11-03-03 16:49)
Personally I'm amazed at our ranking, and I don't want to hear anybody complain this year that we aren't getting our due.
0-1-1 against a poor team, at home, and #15 is sheer silliness.
QuoteGreg Berge '85 wrote:
Personally I'm amazed at our ranking, and I don't want to hear anybody complain this year that we aren't getting our due.
0-1-1 against a poor team, at home, and #15 is sheer silliness.
"Poor" isn't how I would label WMU. After all, they did receive votes, if you like to put leverage into these things. But my measuring stick is that they took the '02-'03 Cornell team to OT. ;-) "Average" or "Decent" I would accept. Heck, Harvard got shutout at home to a team I would put below WMU, so...
But yeah, I agree that the ranking is nice. Shows what a long memory the pollsters have. You put in good showings for 2 straight NCAA tourneys, and people remember you, despite a team turnover of 1/2.
I think the polls also show that no one really knows what to make of the ECAC thus far.
I couldn't find if this got posted last week, but while checking for the new poll, I noticed the 11/3/03 USA Today Poll:
The USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Preseason weekly Top 15
men's college hockey poll with first-place votes in parentheses,
total points and previous ranking:
(as of November 3, 2003)
TEAM PTS Previous Ranking
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1. Maine (23) 482 1
2. North Dakota (11) 477 2
3. New Hampshire 425 4
4. Michigan (1) 415 3
5. Boston College 356 5
6. Colorado College 335 8
7. Denver (1) 300 6
8. Boston University 242 7
9. University of Minnesota-Duluth 235 10
10. Minnesota 169 12
11. St. Cloud State 152 15
12. Massachusetts 107 13
13. Ohio State 96 NR
14. Harvard 93 9
15. Providence 77 14
Others receiving votes: Cornell 36, Notre Dame 36, Brown 13,
Dartmouth 9, Michigan State 8, Mercyhurst College 4, Western Michigan 1.