Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-02-08. (Tomorrow is the 98th anniversary of the birth of Durwood Heal, creator of the Heal Point System) Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI --------------------------------------------------- 1 North Dakota 1 1 1 1 2 Boston College 2 2 2 2 3 Minnesota 3 3 5 4 4 Maine 4 11 3 3 5 Minnesota-Duluth 5 6 8 6 6 St. Cloud State 6 7 14 11 7 Michigan 7 4 4 5 8 Wisconsin 8 8 10 7 9 Denver 9 12 15 12 10 Massachusetts 10 20 9 10 11 Colorado College 11 14 20 17 12 New Hampshire 12 17 7 8 13 Miami 13 5 6 13 14 Ohio State 14 9 12 9 15 Providence 15 25 21 14 16 Michigan State 16 10 16 15 17 Brown 17 23 13 16 18 Alaska-Anchorage 18 22 29 21 19 Notre Dame 19 13 19 23 20 Colgate 20 21 11 18 21 Northern Michigan 21 19 27 30 22 Dartmouth 22 27 18 19 23 Cornell 23 24 24 22 24 Alaska-Fairbanks 24 18 28 26 25 Western Michigan 25 16 23 24 26 Boston University 26 29 32 20 27 Ferris State 27 15 22 27 28 Rensselaer 28 28 26 25 29 Harvard 29 30 31 29 30 Niagara 30 31 25 31 31 Yale 31 32 34 34 32 Minnesota State 32 34 46 42 33 Bemidji State 33 35 30 35 34 Northeastern 34 38 40 33 35 Bowling Green 35 26 39 39 36 Mass.-Lowell 36 39 42 37 37 Clarkson 37 40 36 38 38 Union 38 36 37 40 39 Merrimack 39 43 44 32 40 Michigan Tech 40 42 52 44 41 Holy Cross 41 46 17 28 42 Nebraska-Omaha 42 33 45 46 43 St. Lawrence 43 37 41 45 44 Lake Superior 44 41 51 47 45 Alabama-Huntsville 45 45 38 36 46 Mercyhurst 46 44 33 41 47 Quinnipiac 47 47 35 43 48 Princeton 48 50 55 50 49 Vermont 49 51 56 51 50 Air Force 50 52 49 53 51 Findlay 51 49 53 52 52 Sacred Heart 52 55 43 48 53 Connecticut 53 53 48 49 54 Wayne State 54 48 54 55 55 Canisius 55 54 47 54 56 Army 56 56 50 56 57 Bentley 57 57 57 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.