12/2 Poll

[RedAR]

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll

December 2, 2002

   Team      (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 North Dakota       (21)    12-1-1  548     2
 2 New Hampshire      ( 6)     9-2-2  520     3
 3 Maine              ( 6)    10-1-1  502     4
 4 Boston College     ( 6)     9-2-1  494     1
 5 Colorado College   ( 1)    11-1-2  444     5
 6 Denver                     12-2-2  399     5
 7 Cornell                     8-1-0  385     7
 8 Michigan                   11-2-1  369     8
 9 Ferris State               11-3-0  265    10
10 Minnesota                   7-4-4  222     9
11 Miami                      12-3-1  192    12
12 Harvard                     7-3-0  153    13
13 Boston University           7-5-2  118    11
14 Ohio State                  8-4-1   64    15
15 Providence                  9-5-1   36    14

Others receiving votes: Yale 28, Dartmouth 24,
St. Cloud State 10, Massachusetts 8, Minnesota-Duluth 7,
Northern Michigan 6, Quinnipiac 6

[RedAR]

Sheesh, what does it take for Cornell to get noticed?  Maine sneaks past Quinnipiac 2-1 this week, and they move up a spot.  Cornell dominates BU twice, 4-1 and 5-1, and we hold steady at #7.  We did gain about 40 points, though.

The curiosity here (in my mind) is that I believe that we still would be at #7 if we split this weekend.

I know, I know...  It's only a poll, which really means nothing.

[ugarte]

I think we were shown a lot of respect in this poll.  We closed the gap on the top 5 and, more significantly, BU only dropped two spots after getting drilled twice at Lynah.

[jeh25]

Well, I think 14 points out of 6th after being 101 points out of 6th last week is a big improvement. But seriously, I'm happy to have Cornell sit in 5->8th all year and make a run at the end. Like they say over on USCHO, the only pole that matters is the one you hang your championship banner on.

[kaelistus]

Well... You could say PWR matters. If only for the seed...

But we're getting a lot of 'Respect' from them. :-)

[rhovorka]

Well, we do have a good opportunity this week, as four of the 6 teams ahead of us will be butting heads.  #3 Maine plays #4 BC, and #5 CC plays #6 Denver, both in 2-game sets.  Certainly the quality of opponent will be taken into account, but it's a good bet that teams ahead of us will be getting hit with losses.   Should any team get swept convincingly, and we sweep WMU...it should bode well for our meaningless rankings.

All I care about is that Cornell continues taking care of their own business.

[jeh25]

Felix Rodriguez wrote:

"Screw Cornell Athletics" is a registered trademark of Cornell University

Holy shit. That made me laugh so hard I now have to wipe the spittle off my screen. I'm very glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time or I'd need a new keyboard.

[gwm3]

I think it's safe to say that the meaningless rankings all come down to our otherwise meaningless game with Maine in a few weeks.

[jtwcornell91]

Dude, don't forget the Harkness Cup is at stake.  It would certainly be nice for Ned's old team to finally win the damn thing.

[Al DeFlorio]

And one first-place vote in the USA Today poll.  Still seventh overall, but, as was pointed out above, that was expected.

[Greg Berge]

Respect isn't going to come overnight.  If the team wins it will come and if they don't it won't matter, so really... who cares where you
ranked in December for anything but bragging rights?

[DeltaOne81]

New USAToday, which oddly showed up on USCHO and still sin't up on USAToday.com... steady at 7, but now w/ a first place vote.

1.   University of Maine             220 (4)    4        10-1-1
2.   University of New Hampshire     218 (4)    2         9-2-2
T-3. Boston College                  213 (3)    1         9-2-1
     University of North Dakota      213 (4)    3        12-1-1
5.   Colorado College                193 (1)    6        11-1-2
6.   University of Denver            180        5        12-2-2
7.   Cornell University              169 (1)    7         8-1-0
8.   University of Michigan          158        8        11-2-1
9.   Ferris State University         105       10        11-3-0
10.  University of Minnesota          98        9         7-4-4
11.  Miami University (Ohio)          78       11        12-3-1
12.  Harvard University               66       13         7-3-0
13.  Boston University                46       12         7-5-2
14.  The Ohio State University        34       14         8-4-1
15.  Yale University                  17       NR         6-3-0

Others receiving votes: Dartmouth College 9,
Providence College 9, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 8,
University of Massachusetts-Lowell 2, Northern Michigan University 2,
St. Cloud State University 2.