Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-03-06. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI PWR --------------------------------------------------------- 1 North Dakota 1 1 1 1 1t 2 Boston College 2 2 2 2 1t 3 Minnesota-Duluth 3 4 5 4 4 4 Maine 4 3 3 3 1t 5 Minnesota 5 9 9 5 5 6 Denver 6 12 7 7 6 7 Wisconsin 7 7 6 8 8t 8 Michigan 8 5 4 6 7 9 St. Cloud State 9 13 17 12 15 10 Colorado College 10 15 20 15 16t 11 New Hampshire 11 14 11 10 8t 12 Ohio State 12 10 10 9 11 13 Michigan State 13 11 14 13 12t 14 Miami 14 6 12 11 8t 15 Notre Dame 15 8 13 14 14 16 Providence 16 25 23 16 19 17 Cornell 17 20 15 17 16t 18 Colgate 18 18 8 18 12t 19 Massachusetts 19 24 22 21 21t 20 Mass.-Lowell 20 22 27 19 20 21 Northern Michigan 21 16 28 29 22 Alaska-Anchorage 22 30 41 36 23 Dartmouth 23 27 16 20 16t 24 Rensselaer 24 28 21 23 23t 25 Boston University 25 29 35 22 21t 26 Brown 26 26 19 25 25t 27 Alaska-Fairbanks 27 19 36 37 28 Northeastern 28 32 34 24 25t 29 Western Michigan 29 17 25 26 23t 30 Ferris State 30 21 33 38 31 Bowling Green 31 23 37 33 32 Harvard 32 31 31 30 33 Michigan Tech 33 40 52 39 34 Minnesota State 34 42 50 42 35 Bemidji State 35 37 24 27 27 36 Clarkson 36 36 30 31 37 Merrimack 37 39 44 35 38 Niagara 38 35 26 32 39 Union 39 38 38 40 40 St. Lawrence 40 34 39 41 41 Lake Superior 41 33 46 45 42 Yale 42 41 42 46 43 Holy Cross 43 48 18 28 28 44 Nebraska-Omaha 44 43 54 50 45 Mercyhurst 45 44 29 34 46 Vermont 46 46 53 49 47 Alabama-Huntsville 47 45 40 44 48 Quinnipiac 48 49 32 43 49 Findlay 49 47 48 51 50 Princeton 50 53 57 54 51 Air Force 51 51 49 52 52 Connecticut 52 52 45 48 53 Sacred Heart 53 55 43 47 54 Wayne State 54 50 56 55 55 Canisius 55 54 47 53 56 Bentley 56 56 51 56 57 Army 57 57 55 57 58 American Int'l 58 58 58 58 (*) Special note for this week: Mass.Lowell has admitted to unknowingly using an ineligible player in games from 2003-12-27 through 2004-01-24. UML won 5 of those games: 12/28/03 Union 3 vs Mass.-Lowell 5 nc 01/03/04 Massachusetts 0 at Mass.-Lowell 3 he 01/04/04 Mass.-Lowell 1 at Massachusetts 0 he 01/10/04 Mass.-Lowell 3 at Michigan State 2 nc 01/16/04 Mass.-Lowell 4 at Merrimack 3 ot he There seems to be some question as to whether the forfeited games will be (1) treated as wins by the opposition, (2) ignored (no contest) or (3) remain as played for purposes of ranking for the NCAA tournament. Treatment (1) is exactly what most people think of when they hear "forfeit". Treatment (2) seems most fair to this reporter, as the opposition didn't earn a win while UML's use of an ineligible player should mean the opposition shouldn't have a loss. Treatment (3) seems to have little or no rationale, but ... will probably apply in this case. Since the NCAA Infractions Committee will almost certainly not rule on the UML administrative lapse before the NCAA Tournament selection, NCAA rules seem clear: NCAA Tournament selection will include these forfeits AS PLAYED. So this week we're USING ALL GAME RESULTS AS PLAYED. This matches current USCHO.com treatment and the opinion of several people that know more of this business than I! For your information, here is the current NCAA Bylaw 31.10.5: NCAA Bylaw 31.10.5 Forfeits Neither the outcome nor the statistics in any completed contest are reversible by a forfeit due to postgame administrative actions, except as provided in Bylaw 31.10.5.4 or by Committee on Infractions decisions. The actual results of the contest and the statistics shall be entered as such in both teams all-time records, as well as in the coaches records and in individual statistics. Contests later forfeited shall be denoted by the institution with an asterisk and a footnote. For more information, go to ncaa.org, select rules and eligibility, and search for "abrogated". Finally, I'll note that Hockey East has and will use treatment (1): For Hockey East purposes, UML lost the forfeited games and their opponents won them. .. wts The above RPI rankings are unofficial. Also, NCAA RPI rankings may vary due to NCAA meddling. 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.