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. ::screwy::
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?::rolleyes::
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).