Polls

[billhoward]

Our near-sweep (excluding the second and third periods of Saturday's game) didn't buy Cornell men even a single vote in either poll but it did knock RPI down about 4 places to the mid-teens. I still say we're the most under-rating team in the bottom half of the rankings. Yale lost but still remained #1.

Women still #2 behind Wisconsin.

[Josh '99]

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/ncaapwcr.php

I think maybe this link is more instructive about the changes.  Basically, they redefined TUC as "team with RPI over .500" rather than "team in the top 25 of RPI" (which I personally didn't remember them ever having changed it to, but that's just because I wasn't paying attention).

[Trotsky]

Our near-sweep (excluding the second and third periods of Saturday's game) didn't buy Cornell men even a single vote in either poll but it did knock RPI down about 4 places to the mid-teens. I still say we're the most under-rating team in the bottom half of the rankings. Yale lost but still remained #1.

Women still #2 behind Wisconsin.

The only poll that matters...

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

OK, that's just wrong.

[KeithK]

OK, that's just wrong.

So, so wrong.

[billhoward]

One of the polls covers half the D1 teams in the country and we remain without even a single honorable mention vote. Wonder what our previous record is for weeks without a mention?

Women still #2.

[KeithK]

One of the polls covers half the D1 teams in the country and we remain without even a single honorable mention vote. Wonder what our previous record is for weeks without a mention?

Women still #2.

I know I'm out on a limb here, but we probably didn't get any votes at all in 93-94.

[Trotsky]

One of the polls covers half the D1 teams in the country and we remain without even a single honorable mention vote. Wonder what our previous record is for weeks without a mention?

We're currently 34th in KRACH.  USCHO poll has 31 teams with at least one point, USA Today has 20.

These records only go back to 1995.  If anybody finds earlier ones, I'd be grateful.  There was once a poll conducted by a Minnesota radio (TV?) station, and Don Birkmeier's old newsletter may have had records.  Or there's always a library of back issues of IJ waiting for a research job by some enterprising and bored youngster.

Current stretch: 8 polls (from 22 Nov 10)

This is the longest streak in over 10 years.  Prior to the streak, Cornell had received at least 1 vote in 223 of the previous 227 poll weeks, including one streak of 153 in a row.

Longest streaks without a point:

16 polls (18 Jan 99 through 15 Nov 99)
15 polls (06 Dec 99 through end of season)
10 polls (02 Mar 98 through 09 Nov 98)

The streak of 28 polls from 13 Oct 95 through 11 Nov 96 was, I believe, restricted to failure to crack the top 10.

[BigRedHockeyFan]

Cornell in the Pairwise:

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/ncaapwcr.php

[Trotsky]

Our long national nightmare is over:

24th with 3 votes in USCHO.

Still absent from USA Today.

[Al DeFlorio]

Our long national nightmare is over:

24th with 3 votes in USCHO.

But ahead of the Goofers.:-}

[RichH]

The mid-late 1990s version of myself just fell out of his chair when I told him that Yale, RPI, Union, Notre Dame, Merrimack, & Miami (OH) make up half of the Top 12.

Reason #802 why I love college hockey.

[billhoward]

Cornell is picking up steam. 5 votes this week in the USCHO Feb, 14 poll, which is the 24th most votes out of 26 teams receiving votes out of ~ 58 D1 schools. Union moves from 9 to 7, RPI falls from 8 to 14. That would of course be the result of the poor officiating rather than Cornell's OT goal Saturday.
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/


USA Today / Hockey Magazine only goes to 15 ranked teams and 4 others getting votes, so we're not on the list there.
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/national-polls/

[nyc94]

North Dakota takes over the top spot.  BC second, Yale third.  While BC was the unanimous number one last week, four different teams received first place votes this week: UND (21), BC (13), Yale (15), and Merrimack (1).  Union is fifth, RPI is 14, Dartmouth is 18.  Princeton and Cornell are in the "others receiving votes" category with 33 and 24, respectively.

[Trotsky]

Cornell's  dominant bye week moves them up from 25 to 23 in the USCHO poll.

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Team (First Place) Record Points Last Poll
1 North Dakota (39) 26- 8-3 987 1
2 Boston College (10) 26- 7-1 953 2
3 Yale ( 1) 23- 5-1 892 3
4 Union 25- 7-4 842 4
5 Michigan 23- 9-4 784 5
6 Denver 21-10-5 709 5
7 Miami 19- 9-6 666 8
8 Notre Dame 21-10-5 620 10
9 Merrimack 22- 8-4 583 9
10 New Hampshire 19- 9-6 573 7
11 Minnesota-Duluth 20- 9-6 531 11
12 Nebraska-Omaha 21-13-2 488 12
13 Boston University 18-10-8 353 13
14 Maine 17-10-7 345 14
15 Western Michigan 16-10-10 286 15
16 Colorado College 19-16-3 221 17
17 Minnesota 16-12-6 185 19
18 Dartmouth 16-10-3 165 20
19 Wisconsin 20-14-4 164 18
20 Rensselaer 20-12-5 98 16
Others Receiving Votes: St. Cloud State 21, Ferris State 17, Cornell 10, Rochester Institute of Technology 4, Robert Morris 2, Alaska 1

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/#ixzz1G1JS0fvO