Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-03-20. This report includes results from 1077 Division I games and completes the regular season and all conference tournaments. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI PWR --------------------------------------------------------- 1 North Dakota 1 1 2 1 1t 2 Maine 2 3 1 3 1t 3 Boston College 3 2 3 2 1t 4 Minnesota 4 4 4 4 4 5 Minnesota-Duluth 5 5 7 5 5 6 Denver 6 10 10 8 6t 7 Wisconsin 7 9 9 9 10t 8 Colorado College 8 14 17 13 13t 9 Michigan 9 7 6 7 8 10 Ohio State 10 6 5 6 6t 11 St. Cloud State 11 15 22 14 17 12 Miami 12 8 8 10 9 13 New Hampshire 13 13 12 11 10t 14 Michigan State 14 12 14 12 12 15 Notre Dame 15 11 13 15 13t 16 Massachusetts 16 18 19 17 18 17 Providence 17 23 28 18 19 18 Alaska-Anchorage 18 26 36 30 31 19 Boston University 19 21 30 16 20t 20 Colgate 20 17 11 19 13t 21 Northern Michigan 21 16 25 32 22 Cornell 22 19 16 20 16 23 Mass.-Lowell 23 25 32 22 23t 24 Harvard 24 22 18 23 22 25 Dartmouth 25 27 20 21 20t 26 Rensselaer 26 29 23 25 23t 27 Northeastern 27 32 33 24 25t 28 Western Michigan 28 20 29 27 27 29 Alaska-Fairbanks 29 24 37 37 30 Brown 30 30 27 31 31 Minnesota State 31 38 50 42 32 Michigan Tech 32 42 54 39 33 Clarkson 33 33 24 28 28t 34 Bowling Green 34 31 38 36 35 Ferris State 35 28 35 38 36 Bemidji State 36 39 26 29 30 37 Niagara 37 35 21 33 25t 38 Merrimack 38 41 46 34 39 Union 39 36 40 41 40 St. Lawrence 40 34 39 40 41 Lake Superior 41 37 47 46 42 Yale 42 40 43 44 43 Holy Cross 43 48 15 26 28t 44 Nebraska-Omaha 44 43 53 48 45 Vermont 45 44 52 50 46 Mercyhurst 46 45 31 35 47 Alabama-Huntsville 47 46 42 45 48 Quinnipiac 48 50 34 43 49 Findlay 49 47 48 51 50 Princeton 50 52 57 54 51 Sacred Heart 51 54 41 47 52 Air Force 52 51 49 53 53 Connecticut 53 53 44 49 54 Wayne State 54 49 55 55 55 Canisius 55 55 45 52 56 Bentley 56 56 51 56 57 Army 57 57 56 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 I'm reversing my previous several weeks treatment (2) to this week 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. Whew! .. wts The above RPI rankings are unofficial and do not contain NCAA "fiddling". PWR (from USCHO.com) uses "fiddled" RPI, but ignores possible good wins bonuses. 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. 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