Dec 9 Polls

[Melissa\'01]

USCHO has us at #4!!!

[DeltaOne81]

December 9, 2002

   Team      (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 North Dakota       (28)    14-1-1  574     1
 2 Maine              ( 7)    11-1-2  555     3
 3 Colorado College   ( 4)    13-1-2  529     5
 4 Cornell            ( 1)    10-1-0  461     7
 5 New Hampshire              10-3-2  449     2
 6 Boston College              9-3-2  399     4
 7 Denver                     12-4-2  320     6
 8 Minnesota                   9-4-4  284    10
 9 Ferris State               12-4-0  279     9
10 Michigan                   11-4-1  234     8
11 Harvard                     9-3-0  223    12
12 Ohio State                 10-4-1  197    14
13 Miami                      12-5-1   88    11
14 Boston University           8-6-2   67    13
-- Northern Michigan           9-5-1   67     -

Others receiving votes: Yale 31, Massachusetts 18,
Dartmouth 10, Providence 7, Alaska-Fairbanks 2,
Notre Dame 2, Quinnipiac 2, Brown 1, Minnesota-Duluth 1

[Melissa\'01]

Oooops. Yeah. Posting the results would have been nice - kinda neglected to do so in my excitement. As jy3 just posted on The Polls thread we are #4 in USA Today too! Wow! Can't believe I'm seeing this - tho we'll likely fall back down a few in weeks to come .

[jy3]

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine
Men's College Hockey Poll - Dec. 9, 2002
No. Team Total Points
(1st-place votes
in parentheses) Overall
Record
Last Rank
1. Maine 237 (5) 11-1-2 1
2. North Dakota 236 (7) 14-1-1 T-3
3. Colorado College 226 (4) 13-1-2 5
4. Cornell 199 (1) 10-1-0 7
5. New Hampshire 181 10-3-2 2
6. Boston College 172 9-3-2 T-3
7. Denver 154 12-4-2 6
8. Minnesota 119 9-4-4 10
T-9. Ferris State 108 12-4-0 9
Michigan 108 11-4-1 8
11. Harvard 99 9-3-0 12
12. Ohio State 79 10-4-1 14
13. Miami (OH) 41 12-5-1 11
14. Northern Michigan 30 9-5-1 NR
15. Boston University 21 8-6-2 13
Others receiving votes: Yale 12, University of Massachusetts 7, Providence College 7, Dartmouth 4

[Tom Tone]

It really says something nice that most of the Ivy League is ranked or at least getting votes.  No longer the EZAC?

[gtsully]

Well, not if we keep winning.  Granted, our schedule gets easier, but if we can hang with Maine in Estero and take care of business against all Ivy League teams not named Princeton, everything else should take care of itself.

Could there be an all-Ivy final four in Albany (damn, I still hate that it's not in Placid...)?

[Section A]

When was the last time we were ranked 4th or higher?

[RedAR]

I remember several years back when we were excited to be one of the teams getting votes.  So, for as long as I've followed Cornell Hockey ('95-'96 season), this is the first.

[ugarte]

[Q]. . . if we can hang with Maine in Estero and take care of business against all Ivy League teams not named Princeton, everything else should take care of itself.
 [/Q]  

Why do you want us to lose to Princeton? (By that I mean: what do you mean, Sully?)

[Section A]

also - this is from the official ecac website -

Cornell's ranking is the highest ranking by an ECAC team since St. Lawrence was ranked No. 4 in the April 12, 2000 poll (the final poll of the 1999-00 season).

[Jordan \'04]

I think he means that wins against teams not named Princeton take some effort, and that beating these other teams deems us worthy of remaining high in the polls, whereas beating Princeton doesn't exactly bolster an argument very much.

Just one guy's interpretation...

[Section A]

well, this answers my own question (from the Cornell Athletics website) -

The latest USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll and the U.S. College Hockey Online Poll were released this evening, and the Cornell men's hockey team is listed as the No. 4 team in the country on both. This is Cornell's highest ranking by USA Today/AHM since the poll was started in the 1995-96 season and the highest in the USCHO poll since it was started in 1997-98. The rankings in the USCHO poll also match the highest-ever selection of an Eastern College Athletic Conference team. Cornell was seventh in both of last week's polls.


Also - Moulson was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week for his 4 point effort this past weekend.

[RedAR]

So, as far as the polls go, the Everblades Classic will be pretty significant.  We have the chance to turn some more heads if we beat #2 Maine.  If we could end up winning the Dryden Trophy (is that the exact name?) for the first time, then, well, who knows?

For the hockey gods: Please understand that this was not a woof.  I just noted the potential outcome a good performance at the Everblades Classic.

[rhovorka]

Now, I remember that there used to be at least 1 poll in the early '90s.  Which one was that?  I remember that Clarkson got as high as #2 or #3 in some poll...probably one of the years the Knights got a bye.  So if our current 2 polls have only been in exsistance since '95-'96 for USAToday and '97-'98 for USCHO, what the heck polls were around back when I was in school?

[pat]

WMPL, the radio home of Michigan Tech and the one-time definitive source for information about college hockey, ran a media poll from 1970-2000. Adam recently wrote a great piece on the history of the station and its role that was to be taken over by USCHO.

http://uscho.com/news/2002/12/02_005594.php