The College Hockey Discussion List Poll for January 20, 1993:
Teams were given 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for a second-place
vote, and so on down to 1 point for a fifteenth-place vote. Total first-
place votes are in parentheses.
On this Inauguration Day, St. Cloud makes its inaugural appearance in the
HOCKEY-L poll, cracking the Top 15 for the first time ever. We can also see
from the Range column below that at least for this week there's pretty close
agreement on who the top eight teams are. Beyond that, there are some
pretty wild fluctuations, as there's a pretty sharp dropoff from #8 to #9
(the relatively large number of ten "Other teams receiving votes" also shows
some disagreement as to who belongs in the poll after the top eight).
Composite poll (14 responses):
Last
Record Pts. Week Range
1. Maine (13) 22-0-2 209 1 1-2
2. Harvard (1) 13-1-1 187 2 1-6
3. Michigan 16-4-3 177 4 2-5
4. Boston University 14-4-2 167 5 2-7
5. Minnesota-Duluth 15-6-1 157 3 2-7
6. Miami 15-6-3 147 6 3-7
7. Lake Superior 13-6-4 122 7 6-10
8. Wisconsin 14-7-1 116 8 5-9
9. Michigan State 13-8-1 68 10 8-14
Yale 8-5-2 68 9 8-14
11. Alaska-Fairbanks 16-7 51 13 7-13
12. Minnesota 10-7-5 49 11 9-15
13. Western Michigan 12-8-1 36 14 10-15
14. St. Lawrence 10-6-2 32 12 10-15
15. St. Cloud 11-8-1 25 -- 9-15
Others receiving votes: New Hampshire, UMass-Lowell, Northern
Michigan, Brown, Providence, RPI, Denver, Michigan Tech, Alaska-
Anchorage, Ferris State
Teams named on all responses: Maine, Harvard, Michigan, Boston
University, Minnesota-Duluth, Miami, Lake Superior, Wisconsin
Dropped out of Top 15: UMass-Lowell (tied for #14 last week)
Again in the East-West split, the top eight are identical, but there are
some differences of opinion after that. If this keeps up, the NC$$ Selec-
tion Committee is going to have a tough time with those last four tournament
bids...
Eastern responses: Western responses:
1. Maine (10) 164 1. Maine (3) 45
2. Harvard (1) 149 2. Harvard 38
3. Michigan 139 Michigan 38
4. Boston University 132 4. Boston University 35
5. Minnesota-Duluth 122 Minnesota-Duluth 35
6. Miami 114 6. Miami 33
7. Lake Superior 96 7. Lake Superior 26
8. Wisconsin 90 Wisconsin 26
9. Yale 56 9. Michigan State 19
10. Michigan State 49 10. Alaska-Fairbanks 12
11. Minnesota 40 Western Michigan 12
12. Alaska-Fairbanks 39 Yale 12
13. St. Lawrence 28 13. Minnesota 9
14. Western Michigan 24 14. St. Cloud 6
15. St. Cloud 19 15. New Hampshire 4
St. Lawrence 4
Here's the poll composite. Remarkably, the _Times-Union_ and WMEB polls
agree with HOCKEY-L as to who the top 11 teams are, although there are
slight differences in the ordering. Even more amazing, both media polls
have given some votes to Alaska-Fairbanks, after ignoring the Nanooks for
most of the season. It seems their trip to Michigan State reminded some
voters that they exist. Well, WE knew that all along :-)
Times-
HOCKEY-L Union WMEB
Team Record Rank Rank Rank
Maine 22-0-2 1 1 1
Harvard 13-1-1 2 2 2
Michigan 16-4-3 3 3 3
Boston University 14-4-2 4 4 4
Minnesota-Duluth 15-6-1 5 5 6
Miami 15-6-3 6 5 5
Lake Superior 13-6-4 7 8 7
Wisconsin 14-7-1 8 7 8
Michigan State 13-8-1 9 9 10
Yale 8-5-2 9 10 9
Alaska-Fairbanks 16-7 11 (11) (11)
Minnesota 10-7-5 12
Western Michigan 12-8-1 13 (14) (12)
St. Lawrence 10-6-2 14 (14) (13)
St. Cloud 11-8-1 15 (11) (13)
Tadpoll (polls only):
1. Maine (3) 45
2. Harvard 42
3. Michigan 39
4. Boston University 36
5. Miami 32
Minnesota-Duluth 32
7. Lake Superior 26
8. Wisconsin 25
9. Michigan State 20
Yale 20
11. Alaska-Fairbanks 15
12. St. Cloud 9
Western Michigan 9
14. St. Lawrence 7
15. New Hampshire 6
For the most part, the three rating systems were in pretty close agreement
this week, although CHODR still is far more impressed with Clarkson than the
other two are. Note that although this week's composite includes the
HOCKEY-L rank for comparison purposes, the Tad-rate below still consists
only of the three ratings (without the HOCKEY-L poll results).
HOCKEY-L TCHCR RPICH CHODR
Team Record Rank Rank Rank Rank
Maine 22-0-2 1 1 1 1
Harvard 13-1-1 2 2 3 4
Michigan 16-4-3 3 4 4 3
Boston University 14-4-2 4 3 2 2
Minnesota-Duluth 15-6-1 5 7 8 9
Miami 15-6-3 6 5 5 5
Lake Superior 13-6-4 7 6 6 6
Wisconsin 14-7-1 8 11 10 7
Michigan State 13-8-1 9 8 9 11
Yale 8-5-2 9 12 14 10
Alaska-Fairbanks 16-7 11 9 7 20
Minnesota 10-7-5 12 20 20 22
Western Michigan 12-8-1 13 10 11 21
St. Lawrence 10-6-2 14 14 18 14
St. Cloud 11-8-1 15 22 22 12
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RPI 8-5-4 13 13 15
Providence 10-10-2 15 12 18
Ferris State 11-9-3 16 15 25
Clarkson 6-8-4 24 25 8
Michigan Tech 9-11-2 28 26 13
Tad-rate (ratings only):
1. Maine (3) 45
2. Boston University 41
3. Harvard 39
4. Michigan 38
5. Miami 33
6. Lake Superior 30
7. Minnesota-Duluth 24
8. Michigan State 20
Wisconsin 20
10. Alaska-Fairbanks 16
11. Yale 12
12. Western Michigan 11
13. Clarkson 8
14. RPI 7
15. Providence 5
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