Polls - Jan 19

Section A · January 24, 2004, 10:51:15 PM

ouch; 1 loss and we go from #18 to #26 in the PWR, and that's without the "west" scores factored in yet.

...then again, I think it might be about time to forget about the PWR.

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dss28 · January 24, 2004, 10:52:37 PM

MN beat NoDak tonight, breaking ND's unbeaten streak. Overall they split the series this weekend. Will that have a bearing on us?

Will · January 24, 2004, 11:17:11 PM

Quotedss28 wrote:

MN beat NoDak tonight, breaking ND's unbeaten streak. Overall they split the series this weekend. Will that have a bearing on us?

Probably not, since there's next to no chance of either team falling off the charts anytime soon. Here are the results of the top 15 for the weekend (as of the time of this writing):


 1 North Dakota      Split with Minnesota
 2 Boston College      W over Northeastern
 3 Maine         Split with BU (the loss being a shutout)
 4 Michigan      Swept Western Michigan
 5 Minnesota      Split with NoDak
 6 Wisconsin      Split with CC
 7 St. Cloud State      Split with MSU-Mankato
 8 New Hampshire      W over Merrimack
 9 Minnesota-Duluth   Swept Michigan Tech
10 Denver         Split with UAA
11 Ohio State      Swept by Michigan State
12 Cornell      W over Vermont, L to Dartmouth
13 Notre Dame      Swept by Northern Michigan
14 Colorado College   Split with Wisconsin
15 Miami         Took 3 points from UNO

It's altogether possible that we might leap past tOSU in the polls, since the only teams below us to shake things up are Miami and CC.

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dss28 · January 24, 2004, 11:23:16 PM

[preface]This is an odd question[/preface]
But... what is a "dangerous" PWR to us? Like, how low can we go before we should start worrying?

nyc94 · January 25, 2004, 04:13:29 AM

14 ;-)

Greg Berge · January 25, 2004, 09:03:00 AM

14 (with playoff) ECAC games remaining, so it is still possible to run the table and move back into the low teens in PWR, but then again, if they run the table ...

This year's NCAA tournament is the ECAC tournament. Getting to Albany will be on the order of difficulty (obviously, not magnitude) of getting to Buffalo. Right now it's about 50/50 to get to Albany, and then about 25:75, having gotten there, of winning.

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Chris 02 · January 25, 2004, 10:04:28 AM

[q]This year's NCAA tournament is the ECAC tournament. Getting to Albany will be on the order of difficulty (obviously, not magnitude) of getting to Buffalo. Right now it's about 50/50 to get to Albany, and then about 25:75, having gotten there, of winning.[/q]

So if we get a first-round bye, odds are no better than chance that we'll win our 2nd round playoff series, and similarly in Albany.

Greg Berge · January 25, 2004, 10:31:02 AM

The 50/50 is as of now -- in other words, it factors in the (IMHO relatively small) chance of finish worse than 4th and having to survive the first round.

The point is to think of Albany in the way in which we thought of Buffalo last year. We had a good chance of winning it all last year -- as good a chance as Minny, Michigan and UNH. In the same way, we are on par with Brown, Dartmouth and (yikes) Colgate. At least, as of today we are. If we blow out the Raiders (or get blown out by them...) next weekend, the perception changes.