USA Today Poll

[min]

cornell drops to ninth place in the new USA Today Poll (10/6). we also lost the one first-place vote from last week.

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll
October 6, 2003

No. Team (First-place votes) Points Last Week
1. Minnesota (30)  501 1
2. Michigan (1)  453 2
3. Boston College (3) 452 3
4. New Hampshire 385 4
5.  North Dakota  374 5
6. Harvard 285 6
7.   Boston University  266 7
8. Ferris State  252 9
9. Cornell 228 8
10. Denver 197 12
11. Colorado College  186 10
12. Michigan State  150 11
13. Maine 128 13
14. Minnesota Duluth  83 15
15. Ohio State  36 14

Also receiving votes: Dartmouth 23, Massachusetts 22, Wisconsin 14, Northern Michigan 12, Minnesota State 12, Miami 11, Providence 9, Yale 1.

[A-19]

i'm not surprised we dropped, given our awful performance this weekend!

[Robb \'94]

I guess that former first place voter must have read about himself getting trashed here and on USCHO and mended his ways...  ::rolleyes::

[jason]

Greg correctly predicted it; Cornell's streak of top ten placements in the polls comes to an end (at least in USCHO)...

USCHO Division I Men's Poll
October 20, 2003

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 New Hampshire        (17)     2-0-0  559     2
 2 Boston College       (18)     3-1-1  554     1
 3 Minnesota             (2)     1-1-0  477     3
 4 North Dakota                  2-1-0  470     4
 5 Maine                 (2)     3-0-0  455     5
 6 Michigan                      4-1-0  368     6
 7 Denver                (1)     4-0-0  309    11
 8 Boston University             1-0-1  299     7
 9 Harvard                       0-0-0  290     8
10 Colorado College              2-0-0  276    10
11 Cornell                       0-0-0  249     9
12 Ohio State                    4-2-0  142    NR
13 Providence                    4-0-0   83    13
14 Ferris State                  2-2-0   76    12
15 Minnesota-Duluth              0-2-1   46    14

Others Receiving Votes: Massachusetts 36, 
Northern Michigan 34, Dartmouth 30, St. Cloud State 28, 
Colgate 5, Miami 4, Quinnipiac 3, Minnesota State 2, 
Western Michigan 2, Mercyhurst 1, Notre Dame 1, Union 1

[Keith K \'93]

Ooooh, that tough loss by Red definitely hurt us in the polls.  Two places because of a shootout loss seems pretty excessive though...

How does Michigan not drop with two near losses to Q a week after a 8-3 beating by Miami?

[min]

moreover, maybe it's just me, but how can a team (minnesota-duluth) with only 1 pt in 3 games still be ranked in the top 15?

[Al DeFlorio]

Min-Wei Lin wrote:

moreover, maybe it's just me, but how can a team (minnesota-duluth) with only 1 pt in 3 games still be ranked in the top 15?

Can you spell WCHA?:-P

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Actually, can most of the players in the WCHA spell WCHA?  :-}

JH

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Michigan gets points because there's no other CCHA school for the midwesterners to vote for.

[Robb \'94]

Michigan is certainly dominating the CCHA vote, with 368 of the CCHA's total 627 points.  I think they're just getting credit for their incredible run of Frozen Fours recently - the pollsters are assuming that they'll right the ship and be Michigan eventually.  I see that as a predictor of future success vote, rather than looking at what teams have actually done on the ice.  Good thing - otherwise Red wouldn't have any votes after that loss!

Poll points by conference:

HE: 1986
WCHA: 1608
CCHA: 627
ECAC: 575

[ugarte]

Robb '94 wrote:

  I see that as a predictor of future success vote, rather than looking at what teams have actually done on the ice.  Good thing - otherwise Red wouldn't have any votes after that loss![/q]
Red doesn't have any votes.  But there are a lot of people who think that White looks great already.