Polls 11/01

[chris \'06]

November 1, 2004

   Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Boston College       (35)     3-1-0  593     2
 2 Michigan                      5-2-1  493     3
 3 Minnesota-Duluth      (3)     5-1-2  474     1
 4 Minnesota                     5-2-0  461     6
 5 Wisconsin                     5-1-0  448     5
 6 North Dakota                  4-2-2  393     4
 7 Colorado College      (1)     4-0-0  377     8
 8 New Hampshire                 3-1-1  335     9
 9 Maine                         5-4-0  257     7
10 Denver                        4-3-0  198    10
11 Northern Michigan             4-1-1  183    15
12 Cornell               (1)     2-0-0  177    14
13 St. Lawrence                  4-3-1  129    NR
14 Ohio State                    5-3-0   92    13
15 Nebraska-Omaha                5-1-0   42    NR

Others Receiving Votes: Dartmouth 35, Miami 35,
Mass.-Lowell 22, Colgate 20, Boston University 18,
Michigan State 6, Rensselaer 6, Niagara 3,
Providence 2, St. Cloud State 1

[CowbellGuy]

Has a first place vote ever gone to a team that low in the polls?

[Greg Berge]

LOL.  That's *hilarious*. :-D

But we'll take it.

[billhoward]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 Has a first place vote ever gone to a team that low in the polls?[/q]

Maybe he voted from Miami Beach.

[calgARI '07]

how bout those saints?!

[KeithK]

Well, we do have the #1 offense and #1 defense in the nation!

A vote for us is no more unreasonable than putting UMD first after they just lost 3 of 4 points to Vermont in Duluth...

[calgARI '07]

Denver has had a really hard schedule.  They've played #1, #4, and twice against #5.  
It really must be great being Maine, considering they are 5-4 with wins against all sub-.500 teams except for St. Lawrence who also beat them.  They lost twice to North Dakota, St. Lawrence, and to mediocre BU.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Ain't it great to be Michigan?  You wind up #2 in the country just because there's nobody else in the CCHA you can vote for with a straight face.

Polls are such a farce.

[RichH]

USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 men's hockey poll#


The USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 men's
college hockey poll with first-place votes
in parentheses, 2004-05 record and rank:  

(as of Monday, November 1)

    TEAM                        PTS    Record    Last week
    ----                        ---    ------   ----------
 1. Boston College (27)         502     3-1-0         2
 2. Minnesota-Duluth (3)        435     5-1-2         1
 3. Michigan (1)                411     5-2-1         4
 4. Minnesota (2)               402     5-2-0         6
 5. Wisconsin  (1)              399     5-1-0         5 
 6. North Dakota                345     4-2-2         3                     
 7. New Hampshire               288     3-1-1         7 
 8. Colorado                    285     4-0-0         8
 9. Maine                       214     5-4-0         9
10. Denver                      207     4-3-0        11
11. Northern Michigan           166     4-1-1        15
12. Cornell University          133     2-0-0        NR
13. St. Lawrence University      85     4-3-1        NR
14. Ohio State                   83     5-3-0        13
15. Dartmouth                    35     1-1-0        12

 

Others receiving votes: University of Nebraska-Omaha 25, Miami University (Ohio) 18,
Boston University 13, Colgate University 10, Michigan State University 9, 
University of Massachusetts-Lowell 6, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 4, 
Sacred Heart University 4, Northeastern University 1.

[Avash]

Sacred Heart got 4 votes in the USA Today poll! That's hilarious.

[billhoward]

Maybe the voters' expectations were an 11-0 shutout by Cornell so they exceeded expectations. Sort of like Daniel Patrick Moynihan's idea of defining deviancy downward.

[bernie han]

much more likely that it was one ridiculous vote than it was four

[Greg Berge]

Results for "nearby" ranked teams:

08 UNH (W-BU, L-Maine)
09 Maine (L-BC, W-UNH)
10 Denver (idle)
11 NMU (T-MTU, W-MTU)
12 Cornell (W-Harvard, W-Brown)

[KeithK]

Based on the above I don't expect us to go up.  Maine/UNH will get credit for losing to ranked HE teams, Denver will get credit for being WCHA and NMU at least picked up 3 points.  Well, I suppose we could swap with NMU, but not counting on it.

[Al DeFlorio]

Not that I put much faith in their opinion, but Cornell is #8 in the INCH rankings:

http://insidecollegehockey.com/5Polls/0405/polls_0309.htm

Harvard...ahem..."dropped out."