Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2007-01-13. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI RPIORIG RPIHOME CHODR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Minnesota 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 New Hampshire 2 3 1 2 2 1 1 3 St. Cloud State 3 2 4 3 3 3 3 4 Notre Dame 4 8 3 4 4 6 4 5 Maine 5 5 8 6 7 4 5 6 Denver 6 4 9 5 9 14 17 7 Colorado College 7 7 12 9 8 11 8 8 Clarkson 8 9 5 7 5 5 7 9 Michigan State 9 14 6 8 6 10 11 10 Michigan 10 18 14 10 10 25 13 11 Vermont 11 16 18 14 13 7 6 12 Boston College 12 13 17 11 20 16 14 13 Miami 13 20 10 12 15 26 16 14 North Dakota 14 6 16 16 17 17 9 15 Boston University 15 10 11 13 16 8 10 16 Wisconsin 16 12 25 20 11 13 12 17 Quinnipiac 17 11 7 15 14 9 19 18 Michigan Tech 18 17 24 25 19 24 15 19 Bemidji State 19 25 27 17 24 23 39 20 Minnesota State 20 19 31 30 12 15 21 21 Alaska-Anchorage 21 22 34 22 31 36 25 22 Ohio State 22 30 26 26 21 19 20 23 Lake Superior 23 33 28 19 29 31 24 24 Cornell 24 15 13 18 18 12 22 25 St. Lawrence 25 21 23 23 22 20 23 26 Niagara 26 29 21 24 25 29 40 27 Massachusetts 27 24 19 27 32 35 31 28 Minnesota-Duluth 28 32 47 34 36 38 30 29 Nebraska-Omaha 29 34 29 29 30 37 18 30 Yale 30 26 20 28 23 22 36 31 Dartmouth 31 27 30 32 27 21 28 32 Harvard 32 28 32 36 33 28 27 33 Northeastern 33 38 40 38 26 18 26 34 Northern Michigan 34 36 41 37 38 39 29 35 Princeton 35 23 22 31 35 32 34 36 Colgate 36 37 35 35 34 30 35 37 Union 37 35 33 33 37 34 37 38 Rensselaer 38 31 36 40 39 33 45 39 Alaska 39 43 39 43 40 46 32 40 Sacred Heart 40 40 15 21 28 27 47 41 Western Michigan 41 39 42 41 42 41 38 42 Brown 42 41 46 39 46 48 42 43 Robert Morris 43 42 45 44 43 40 48 44 Ferris State 44 47 51 48 50 50 43 45 Air Force 45 46 37 42 41 42 44 46 Providence 46 48 54 50 51 49 46 47 Mass.-Lowell 47 45 53 51 49 43 41 48 Alabama-Huntsville 48 44 48 49 48 47 50 49 Bowling Green 49 54 57 52 53 54 52 50 Wayne State 50 50 55 54 52 45 53 51 Army 51 52 43 45 44 44 49 52 Bentley 52 49 44 47 45 51 55 53 Merrimack 53 53 56 55 54 53 56 54 Holy Cross 54 51 38 46 47 52 51 55 Connecticut 55 55 49 53 55 55 57 56 Canisius 56 57 50 56 56 56 58 57 Mercyhurst 57 56 52 57 57 57 54 58 American Int'l 58 58 58 58 58 58 0 Notes for this week: * The above RPI rankings are unofficial. * RPI is very close to the RPI method used by the NCAA, as it uses the 25-21-54 portions. I know of no mathematical basis for this proportioning. An NCAA statement, as shown on the CHN web site, says the two proportioning schemes leave team ordering intact. As anyone may clearly see from the above table (assuming the columns line up), RPI and RPIORIG vary significantly. * RPIORIG is the more mathematically correct (25-50-25) method used by the NCAA for the 4 seasons preceeding this. * RPIHOME is an ill-advised attempt to "pay" teams for winning on the road. Luckily the NCAA never used this method * KRACH is a superior method for measuring a season. Too bad the NCAA has too much bureaucracy to seriously considering adoption. * If you are interested in the method the NCAA *will* use to select NCAA tournament teams, please see the "PWR" sections of USCHO or CHN. Note for 2006-2007: Though RIT plays sufficient D-I games this season to be eligible for the D-I NCAA Tournament, it is ineligible until the 2007-2008 season. 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, http://collegehockeynews.com/ has extensive information about KRACH, its underlying methods and history, as well as the methods used by the NCAA. The CHODR ranking, if present, comes from Robin Lock of St. Lawrence University at http://it.stlawu.edu/~chodr/current.html 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.