USCHO.com poll

[jason]

FYI...

Pre-Season USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
September 30, 2002

   Team (First Place)      LY Record  Pts   Last Year
 1 Minnesota (22)            32- 8-4  563     3
 2 Denver (12)               32- 8-1  515     2
 3 Michigan (3)              28-11-5  499     7
 4 New Hampshire (1)         30- 7-3  419     1
 5 Boston University (2)     25-10-3  400     5
 6 Maine                     26-11-7  369     6
 7 Michigan State            27- 9-5  360     4
 8 Cornell                   25- 8-2  315     9
 9 Boston College            18-18-2  252     -
10 Colorado College          27-13-3  229    10
11 St. Cloud                 29-11-2  204     8
12 Northern Michigan         26-12-2  164    11
13 North Dakota              16-19-2  148     -
14 Harvard                   15-15-4  113    15
15 Ohio State                20-16-4   75    14

Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 33, Clarkson 32,
Alaska-Fairbanks 27, Providence 24, Nebraska-Omaha 16,
Mass.-Lowell 11, Minnesota-Duluth 7, Mercyhurst 6,
St. Lawrence 6, Northeastern 5, Yale 4, Wayne State 3,
Notre Dame 1

[gwm3]

Anybody remember where we were ranked pre-season last year?

[jy3]

couldnt find it. i think cornell was in the top 15 high up but i dont know.  ::twitch::

[Greg Berge]

On 11/5/01 we were 16th in USCHO and 15 in USA Today.  I don't have a record of anything before that.

[jason]

The week before the 11/5/01 poll, Cornell was in the "others receiving votes" category of the USA Today poll with 10 votes, not sure about USCHO poll.

EDIT: According the latest article up on cornellbigred.com and confirming what we seem to believe, the team was not ranked in either pre-season poll last season.

[Al DeFlorio]

Seems to me we were picked sixth in the ECAC in one of the preseason polls.

[jason]

Yep.


2001-02 Preseason Media Poll
1. Clarkson ( 223
2. Dartmouth(5) 221
3. Harvard(3) 215
4. St. Lawrence (4) 208
5. Rensselaer (2) 189
6. Cornell 187
7. Princeton 128
8. Vermont 127
9. Union 78
9. Union 78
10. Colgate 69
11. Brown 27

2001-02 Preseason Coaches' Poll  
1. Harvard (5) 108
2. Clarkson (2) 101
3. Cornell (3) 100
4. Dartmouth (1) 92
5. St. Lawrence 85
6. Rensselaer (1) 81
7. Vermont 69
8. Yale 45
9. Colgate 38
10. Union 32  
11. Princeton 28
12. Brown 13

[Al DeFlorio]

For what it's worth, this new college hockey website is optimistic about our chances this season.  Follow the link and click on the ECAC preview button.

http://www.insidecollegehockey.com

[DeltaOne81]

Wow, a new College Hockey website... just what I need to study less  ::help::

[melissa\'01]

ok. it is cool that there is a new site but these guys must be on crack:

"10. Cornell - Home of arguably the ECAC's best skater (Doug Murray)  "

come on. I love Murray as much as the next guy/girl but I'd hardly label him the best skater in the ECAC. As I believe the end of last year's song went "IPOTY do dah, IPOTY do dah, He's so god damn slow!"

Note (for all those who were lucky enough to escape hearing the song sung and who might have forgotten): IPOTY - Ivy Player of The Year

[CowbellGuy]

They also misspelled LeNeveu (LeNeveau) on one of their pages. Speaking of which... I hate to dig this up again, but for those who were in the ticket line when Stephen introduced the players, did you happen to notice he said "Le-ne-voo"?

** Age strolls off whistling **

[cbuckser]

After initially being perplexed at the comment about Doug Murray, I more charitably interpreted "best skater" to mean best non-goaltender, rather than most proficient power skater.

[Will \'01]

I don't think they meant "skater" as in a smooth strider, but "skater" as in hockey player. B-]

[melissa\'01]

must have. otherwise it's just plain wrong.

[Greg Berge]

Figure skater or not, it's great to see Doug supported as the best player in the conference.