January 3, 2005
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 Minnesota (37) 16-4-0 596 1
2 Colorado College (3) 16-3-1 560 2
3 Boston College 9-3-3 485 5
4 Michigan 14-5-1 473 3
5 Denver 13-5-1 436 7
6 Wisconsin 13-6-1 382 4
7 New Hampshire 12-4-2 376 6
8 North Dakota 13-7-2 296 8
9 Cornell 8-3-2 269 9
10 Ohio State 12-5-3 253 11
11 Boston University 11-7-0 167 13
12 Harvard 9-4-2 160 10
13 Colgate 13-5-0 130 12
14 Vermont 11-6-3 105 14
15 Maine 10-8-3 43 15
Others Receiving Votes: Northern Michigan 40,
Michigan State 18, Nebraska-Omaha 3, Alabama-Huntsville 2,
Mass.-Lowell 2, Minnesota-Duluth 2, Brown 1,
Minnesota State 1
Absolutely amazing as to how Maine can still be ranked and Michigan State not be.
For comparison's sake, in the first post-break poll of the previous three years Cornell has been:
2002: 13th (final: 9th)
2003: 4th (final: 1st)
2004: 9th (final: 20th)
[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:
Absolutely amazing as to how Maine can still be ranked and Michigan State not be.[/q]
And St. Cloud, in my opinion... but then again I haven't been following their season enough to really be a good judge of these things.
[q]And St. Cloud, in my opinion... [/q]St. Cloud ihas lost more games than they've won (8-10-2) and looks even worse in conference (Tied 8th, 4-8-0). I don't care how good you think the WCHA is - it's pretty unreasonable to vote for St. Cloud in national polls. Even KRACH doesn't rate them in the top 15 (barely - SCSU is 16).
Well, I stand corrected, then. Like I said, my only exposure to them was through the Everblades.
Hopefully this coming weekend will work to our advantage :)
omg, the Washington Post was so deprived of sports news that it actually published the USCHO poll today. The only time it normally cares about college hockey is when the NCAA brackets are announced (or there's a local kid involved - see Jeff Halpern, Steve Werner). All this extra space w/o the Caps playing :-/
USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 men's hockey poll#
The USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 men's
college hockey poll with first-place votes
in parentheses, 2004-05 record and rank:
(as of Monday, January 3)
TEAM PTS Record Last week
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1. Minnesota (29) 501 16-4-0 1
2. Colorado College (5) 480 16-3-1 2
3. Boston College 423 9-3-3 5
4. Michigan 408 14-5-1 3
5. Denver 383 13-5-1 7
6. New Hampshire 332 12-4-2 6
7. Wisconsin 304 13-6-1 4
8. North Dakota 269 13-7-2 8
9. Ohio State 235 12-5-3 10
10. Cornell 204 8-3-2 9
11. Harvard 162 9-4-2 11
12. Vermont 127 11-6-3 12
13. Boston University 95 11-7-0 13
14. Colgate 90 13-5-0 14
15. Maine 32 10-8-3 15
Others receiving votes: Northern Michigan, 22; Michigan State, 6;
Holy Cross, 3; St. Cloud State, 1.