USCHO Poll 11/3/2003

[Chris 02]

USCHO Division I Men's Poll
November 3, 2003

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Maine                (30)     7-0-0  580     1
 2 North Dakota          (9)     4-1-0  543     2
 3 New Hampshire         (1)     4-1-0  494     3
 4 Michigan                      7-1-0  478     4
 5 Boston College                3-2-1  411     5
 6 Colorado College              5-0-1  403     8
 7 Denver                        5-1-0  360     6
 8 Boston University             2-1-1  269     7
 9 Minnesota-Duluth              4-2-1  244    12
10 St. Cloud State               5-0-1  193    13
11 Minnesota                     2-4-0  171    10
12 Massachusetts                 5-1-0  118    14
13 Harvard                       0-1-0  106     9
14 Ohio State                    6-3-0  100    NR
15 Cornell                       0-1-1   91    11

Others Receiving Votes: Providence 86, Notre Dame 60,
Brown 27, Dartmouth 18, Michigan State 15, Mercyhurst 10,
Western Michigan 9, Clarkson 6, Union 6, Colgate 2

No big surprise here with our ranking.  Remarkably seven ECAC schools got votes!  That's one more than Hockey East, WCHA, two more than CCHA, and considerably more than AHA or CHA.



Post Edited (11-03-03 16:49)

[Greg Berge]

Personally I'm amazed at our ranking, and I don't want to hear anybody complain this year that we aren't getting our due.

0-1-1 against a poor team, at home, and #15 is sheer silliness.

[rhovorka]

Greg Berge '85 wrote:

Personally I'm amazed at our ranking, and I don't want to hear anybody complain this year that we aren't getting our due.

0-1-1 against a poor team, at home, and #15 is sheer silliness.

"Poor" isn't how I would label WMU.  After all, they did receive votes, if you like to put leverage into these things.  But my measuring stick is that they took the '02-'03 Cornell team to OT.  ;-)  "Average" or "Decent" I would accept.  Heck, Harvard got shutout at home to a team I would put below WMU, so...

But yeah, I agree that the ranking is nice.  Shows what a long memory the pollsters have.  You put in good showings for 2 straight NCAA tourneys, and people remember you, despite a team turnover of 1/2.

[atb9]

I think the polls also show that no one really knows what to make of the ECAC thus far.

[Shorts]

I couldn't find if this got posted last week, but while checking for the new poll, I noticed the 11/3/03 USA Today Poll:

The USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Preseason weekly Top 15 
men's college hockey poll with first-place votes in parentheses,
total points and previous ranking: 

(as of November 3, 2003) 

     TEAM                                   PTS   Previous Ranking
     ----                                   ---   ----------------
  1. Maine (23)                             482          1
  2. North Dakota (11)                      477          2
  3. New Hampshire                          425          4
  4. Michigan (1)                           415          3
  5. Boston College                         356          5
  6. Colorado College                       335          8
  7. Denver (1)                             300          6
  8. Boston University                      242          7
  9. University of Minnesota-Duluth         235         10
 10. Minnesota                              169         12
 11. St. Cloud State                        152         15
 12. Massachusetts                          107         13
 13. Ohio State                              96         NR 
 14. Harvard                                 93          9
 15. Providence                              77         14


Others receiving votes: Cornell 36, Notre Dame 36, Brown 13,
Dartmouth 9, Michigan State 8, Mercyhurst College 4, Western Michigan 1.