Polls - Jan 19

[kingpin248]

USCHO poll is out...

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 North Dakota         (39)    17-2-2  599     1
 2 Boston College        (1)    16-3-3  560     2
 3 Maine                        16-5-1  503     3
 4 Michigan                     14-7-1  411     6
 5 Minnesota                    13-8-3  404     7
 6 Wisconsin                    14-6-6  389     4
 7 St. Cloud State              13-8-3  344     5
 8 New Hampshire                14-7-3  323     9
 9 Minnesota-Duluth             15-8-2  316    12
10 Denver                       15-8-3  262     8
11 Ohio State                  15-10-0  189    13
12 Cornell                       7-4-6  111    10
13 Notre Dame                   12-7-3   85    NR
14 Colorado College             11-8-3   84    11
15 Miami                        13-9-2   79    15

Others Receiving Votes: Massachusetts 39, 
Brown 28, Dartmouth 26, Alaska-Anchorage 19, 
Rensselaer 10, Michigan State 9, Bemidji State 5, 
Mass.-Lowell 4, Western Michigan 1

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Wow.

I'd have expected us to fall further.

JH

[jkahn]

Unfortunately, we have fallen to 22 in PWR, which is the only ranking that really counts.  Based upon last year's records, we'll either have to go about 13-3 the rest of the way (including ECAC tourney games) to make the NCAA's  or qualify by winning the ECAC championship.  Let's hope we can do both.

[dsr11]

USA Today Poll...since no one has posted it yet....

(Records through January 19, 2004)

    TEAM                                   PTS   PVS
    ----                                   ---   ---
 1. NORTH DAKOTA (33) (17-2-2)             509     1
 2. BOSTON COLLEGE (1) (16-3-3)            477     2
 3. MAINE (16-5-1)                         428     3
 4. MICHIGAN (14-7-1)                      384     5
 5. MINNESOTA (13-8-3)                     363     8
 6. WISCONSIN (14-6-6)                     338     4
 7. ST CLOUD (13-8-3)                      283     6
 8. NEW HAMPSHIRE (14-7-3)                 276     9
 9. MINN DULUTH (15-8-2)                   240    12
10. DENVER (15-8-3)                        217     7
11. OHIO ST (15-10)                        162    13
12. COLORADO COLL (11-8-3)                 106    10
13. CORNELL (7-4-6)                         98    11
14. MASSACHUSETTS (11-7-5)                  50    NR
15. MIAMI OHIO (13-9-2)                     48    NR

Dropped Out: No. 14 Brown, No. 15 Dartmouth

Others Receiving Votes: NOTRE DAME 42, DARTMOUTH 37, BROWN 
11, RPI 7, ALA ANCHORAGE 1, HOLY CROSS 1, MASS LOWELL 1, 
WESTERN MICH 1.

[dss28]

Gotta hand it to the Gophers... they had a losing record early on, and now they're 5th...  this is slightly reminsicent of last year.

I wonder if they're starting to think threepeat?

[ugarte]

dss28 wrote:

I wonder if they're starting to think threepeat?

They never stopped thinking it. Just like Schafer and the boys still know that they can get the threepeat Cleary.

[Will]

dss28 wrote:

Gotta hand it to the Gophers... they had a losing record early on, and now they're 5th...  this is slightly reminsicent of last year.

I wonder if they're starting to think threepeat?

Oh, people have been thinking that for some time.  Some Gopher fans never lost faith.

I hate them so very much. :-P

[dss28]

Aww... but they loved us last year when we continued to heckle U-H-N during the finals... I heard a few say that because of the Cornell fans that stuck around cheering, they'd cheer for us so long as we weren't their opponents

[marty]

And I met some over 50 Gopher fans who were among the nicest people at the tournament.  It really opened my eyes.  I had a negative feeling toward Minnesota that began when their  coach Woog(sp?) was bellyaching after every other loss.  He left and the program blossomed, eh?

[jtwcornell91]

I have to say, I don't mind seeing Wooger as Frank M's color man on the FSNorth broadcasts of Gopher hockey.

[dss28]

Maybe the Ewing Theory can apply to coaches, then ;-)

[marty]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

I have to say, I don't mind seeing Wooger as Frank M's color man on the FSNorth broadcasts of Gopher hockey.

I have heard him on the radio and he's fine there.  He found his calling.;-)

[jkahn]

After the two games played Tuesday, we moved up to 19 in the quirky PWR.  The Providence loss dropped them down and the results of the two games played tuesday must have changed some comparisons for other teams.

[Section A]

After last night's game, we moved up to #16 in the Pairwise Rankings.

Several other ECAC teams are "teams under consideration:"

#20: Colgate
#25: Brown
#26: RPI
#27: Dartmouth
#30: Clarkson

...against whom we have a total of 6 games remaining.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Unfortunately, our current record against them is 0-2-2.  We'd better win some of those remaining 6 games.

JH