1/6/03 Polls

[jason]

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
January 6, 2003

   Team      (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 North Dakota       (31)    18-1-3  588     1
 2 Colorado College   ( 3)    16-2-4  543     3
 3 Maine              ( 5)    16-2-2  533     2
 4 Cornell            ( 1)    12-3-0  453     5
 5 New Hampshire              13-4-2  432     6
 6 Denver                     14-5-3  352     8
 7 Minnesota                  11-5-5  329     4
 8 Michigan                   14-5-1  291    10
 9 Ohio State                 14-4-2  279     9
10 Boston College             10-5-3  268     7
11 Boston University          13-6-2  228    12
12 Ferris State               15-5-0  209    11
13 Harvard                    11-5-1  124    13
14 Dartmouth                   9-4-0   43     -
15 Massachusetts              12-7-1   40     -

Others receiving votes: St. Cloud State 30, 
Northern Michigan 28, Miami 26, Quinnipiac 2, Yale 2

This comment would have been more timely after last week's poll, oh well... I'm surprised/impressed with Cornell's ranking resiliency after two losses and now two squeakers against sub-500 teams. In the past, the voters would have sent Cornell or another ECAC squad tumbling after such. I guess there are more believers this year than in the past few. I'd love to know who the person is that gives us the sole 1st place vote (ditto for whoever was doing it in the USA Today poll a few weeks back), not sure I agree, but what the hay.

[gwm3]

Well the two losses were very close losses against top 10 teams without our starting goaltender.  Not saying we shouldn't have won those games, but they certainly aren't really bad losses.

[rhovorka]

So I'll use the nicely formatted version of this thread.  :-)

I was beginning to wonder where the USAToday poll had gone, as they haven't had one since 12/16 (although it appears they did since we're listed as #6 from the previous poll, but it wasn't published on either uscho.com or usatoday.com), and I couldn't find the new one online last night.

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
January 6, 2003

Rank School                          Pts (1st) Last  W-L-T
1.   University of North Dakota      247 (10)   2   18-1-3
2.   Colorado College                236 (6)    3   16-2-4
3.   University of Maine             222 (1)    1   16-2-2
4.   Cornell University              205        6   12-3-0
5.   University of New Hampshire     178        7   13-4-2
6.   University of Denver            154        5   14-5-3
7.   University of Minnesota         134        4   11-5-5
8.   University of Michigan          130       10   14-5-1
9.   The Ohio State University       124        9   14-4-2
10.  Boston University               106       11   13-6-2
11.  Ferris State University          94       12   15-5-0
12.  Boston College                   74        8   10-5-3
13.  Harvard University               56       15   11-5-1
14.  University of Massachusetts      22       NR   12-7-1
15.  St. Cloud State University       18       NR    8-7-3

Others receiving votes: Northern Michigan University 17, 
Dartmouth College 14, Miami University (Ohio) 7, 
Quinnipiac College 2.