Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-02-14. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI --------------------------------------------------- 1 Boston College 1 2 1 2 2 North Dakota 2 1 2 1 3 Minnesota-Duluth 3 4 5 5 4 Maine 4 11 4 4 5 Minnesota 5 7 8 6 6 Michigan 6 3 3 3 7 St. Cloud State 7 5 6 7 8 Wisconsin 8 6 7 9 9 Denver 9 13 16 12 10 Colorado College 10 14 21 16 11 Massachusetts 11 21 13 10 12 Ohio State 12 9 10 8 13 Miami 13 8 11 13 14 New Hampshire 14 15 9 11 15 Providence 15 26 24 14 16 Michigan State 16 10 17 15 17 Notre Dame 17 12 15 17 18 Brown 18 24 14 19 19 Northern Michigan 19 18 26 26 20 Alaska-Anchorage 20 23 31 29 21 Cornell 21 22 22 18 22 Colgate 22 20 12 22 23 Alaska-Fairbanks 23 16 29 25 24 Dartmouth 24 27 20 20 25 Rensselaer 25 25 18 21 26 Western Michigan 26 17 23 23 27 Ferris State 27 19 27 30 28 Boston University 28 30 37 24 29 Michigan Tech 29 33 47 38 30 Northeastern 30 34 34 27 31 Yale 31 31 30 34 32 Harvard 32 29 32 31 33 Bowling Green 33 28 38 40 34 Niagara 34 32 25 33 35 Minnesota State 35 37 49 43 36 Bemidji State 36 40 33 39 37 Mass.-Lowell 37 35 41 36 38 Merrimack 38 41 44 32 39 Union 39 36 36 41 40 Clarkson 40 42 40 42 41 Holy Cross 41 46 19 28 42 Nebraska-Omaha 42 39 48 45 43 St. Lawrence 43 38 42 44 44 Lake Superior 44 43 51 47 45 Alabama-Huntsville 45 45 35 35 46 Mercyhurst 46 44 28 37 47 Vermont 47 47 54 50 48 Princeton 48 51 57 52 49 Quinnipiac 49 50 39 46 50 Air Force 50 48 46 51 51 Connecticut 51 52 45 48 52 Sacred Heart 52 54 43 49 53 Findlay 53 49 55 53 54 Wayne State 54 53 56 56 55 Canisius 55 55 50 54 56 Army 56 56 52 55 57 Bentley 57 57 53 57 58 American Int'l 58 58 58 58 (*) Special note for this week: The above results IGNORE 5 Mass.-Lowell forfeit games, as announced by the school and reported by USCHO.COM and other sources. There seems to be some question as to whether the forfeits will be treated as wins by the opposition or ignored for the purposes of ranking for the NCAA tournament. The NCAA bylaws seem to say the former, yet some state recent precedence suggest the latter. As the latter seems most fair to this reporter, HEAL and other rankings from this site use the latter: the 5 games below are ignored. Fyi, the forfeits are all Mass.-Lowell games from 2003-12-27 through 2004-01-24, including five games won on the ice by Mass.-Lowell: 12/28/03 Union 1 vs Mass.-Lowell 0 nc 01/03/04 Massachusetts 1 at Mass.-Lowell 0 he 01/04/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Massachusetts 1 he 01/10/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Michigan State 1 nc 01/16/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Merrimack 1 he The above RPI rankings are unofficial. For individual rankings and season composites, please visit http://Maine.edu/HEAL/ Game scores for these rankings have been provided by US College Hockey Online, sometimes supplemented by other sources. USCHO's composite of all Division I men's ice hockey games is available at http://uscho.com/ in the section marked Men's Division I schedules. In addition, USCHO has extensive information about KRACH, its underlying methods and history, as well as the methods used by the NCAA. This ranking report is available for republication without restriction. It may be reformatted or used in part without restriction. Reference to the HEAL web site or the author (Wayne T. Smith; [log in to unmask]) is appreciated.