The College Hockey Discussion List Poll for January 22, 1992:
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.
Composite poll (9 responses):
Last
Record Pts. Week
1. Maine (7) 18-2 132 1
2. Lake Superior (1) 15-4-2 121.5 2
3. Minnesota 18-6 115.5 5
4. Michigan (1) 16-4-3 106 4
5. Northern Michigan 14-7-3 85 3
6. Boston University 16-4 80 7
7. Wisconsin 15-8-1 77 8
8. Michigan State 14-5-5 75 6
9. Providence 15-6-1 59 11
10. Clarkson 14-4-1 49 9
11. St. Lawrence 12-5-2 45 10
12. New Hampshire 13-7 36 12
13. Harvard 8-3-3 34 13
14. Alaska-Anchorage 17-5-1 26 14
15. Western Michigan 10-8-2 17 15
Others receiving votes: Yale, Miami, Minnesota-Duluth, Cornell
Eastern responses: Western responses:
1. Maine (5) 75 1. Maine (2) 57
2. Lake Superior 68 2. Lake Superior (1) 53.5
3. Minnesota 64 3. Minnesota 51.5
4. Michigan 56 4. Michigan (1) 50
5. Boston University 54 5. Michigan State 38
6. Northern Michigan 47 Northern Michigan 38
7. Wisconsin 43 7. Wisconsin 34
8. Clarkson 37 8. Providence 29
Michigan State 37 9. Boston University 26
10. Providence 30 New Hampshire 26
11. St. Lawrence 27 11. St. Lawrence 18
12. Harvard 23 12. Alaska-Anchorage 16
13. Alaska-Anchorage 10 13. Clarkson 12
New Hampshire 10 14. Harvard 11
15. Yale 9 15. Western Michigan 10
When I started doing this Eastern-Western split, I expected to find some
discrepancies in the way the responses from the two regions ranked some of
the teams, and indeed there have been. For the past three weeks, the com-
posite Eastern poll has ranked BU at least four places higher than the com-
posite Western poll. Something like this is obviously not surprising, since
the Eastern voters have more of a chance to see, and presumably be impressed
by, BU than the Western voters do. What I DIDN'T expect was something like
what has been happening to New Hampshire, which for the past three weeks has
been ranked at least four spots HIGHER by the Westerners than by the East-
erners -- a sort of reverse regionalism.
Now that I've gone and brought this up, watch UNH drop right out of the poll
next week.
HOCKEY-L NCAA TCHCR
Team Record Rank Rank Rank
Maine 18-2 1 1 5
Lake Superior 15-4-2 2 2 2
Minnesota 18-6 3 2 1
Michigan 16-4-3 4 4 3
Northern Michigan 14-7-3 5 6 4
Boston University 16-4 6 5 9
Wisconsin 15-8-1 7 8 7
Michigan State 14-5-5 8 7 6
Providence 15-6-1 9 12 12
Clarkson 14-4-1 10 9 17
St. Lawrence 12-5-2 11 11 16
New Hampshire 13-7 12 12 20
Harvard 8-3-3 13 10 18
Alaska-Anchorage 17-5-1 14 10
Western Michigan 10-8-2 15 15 8
The NCAA ranks Yale #14.
Keith let me know last week that a for-real TADPOLL uses the media polls
themselves as voters and creates a composite in which each team is given 15
points for a first place finish in each media poll, 14 for a second, etc.
(that's why it's a tad better) I admit to being "disturbed" enough to
compile something like this, but the only other poll I saw this week was the
NCAA one. If we get more media ones to make things interesting (_Times-
Union_, WMPL, and so on), I'll probably put one together.
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