The College Hockey Discussion List Poll for March 23, 1994: Teams were given 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for a second-place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a fifteenth-place vote. Total first- place votes are in parentheses. Not surprisingly, Colorado College made HOCKEY-L's Top 12, which of course is small consolation for missing out on the NC$$'s. But it appears that HOCKEY-L voters (at least, the nine who responded this week) would have sent Colorado College to the tournament in place of Northeastern, with all other teams remaining pretty much the same. Time to start writing letters? Composite poll (9 responses): Last NC$$ Record Pts. Week Range Seed 1. Boston University (5) 32-6 130 1 1-3 1E 2. Michigan (4) 33-6-1 129 2 1-3 1W 3. Harvard 23-4-4 109 4 2-6 2E 4. Lake Superior 27-10-4 102 3 2-15 4W 5. Mass Lowell 24-9-5 91 5 5-7 3W 6. Minnesota 24-12-4 69 7 3-10 2W 7. Wisconsin 25-14-1 69 6 4-13 4E New Hampshire 24-11-3 60 11 5-13 3E 9. Michigan State 23-12-5 59 8 6-13 6W 10. RPI 21-10-4 54 13 5-12 6E 11. Colorado College 23-11-5 53 10 4-13 12. Western Michigan 24-12-3 46 9 7-14 5E 13. St. Cloud 21-13-4 40 14 7-15 14. Northeastern 20-11-7 23 -- 9-15 5W 15. Clarkson 20-9-5 17 12 10-15 Others receiving votes: Maine, Northern Michigan, Alaska-Fairbanks, Miami Teams named on all responses: Boston University, Michigan, Harvard, Lake Superior, Mass Lowell, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Michigan State, RPI, Colorado College, Western Michigan Dropped out of Top 15: Northern Michigan (#15 last week) Eastern responses: Western responses: 1. Boston University (2) 58 1. Boston University (3) 72 Michigan (2) 58 2. Michigan (2) 71 3. Lake Superior 50 3. Harvard 63 4. Harvard 46 4. Lake Superior 52 5. Mass Lowell 41 5. Mass Lowell 50 6. Minnesota 36 6. Wisconsin 40 7. St. Cloud 30 7. New Hampshire 37 8. RPI 29 8. Colorado College 35 Wisconsin 29 9. Michigan State 33 10. Michigan State 26 Minnesota 33 11. New Hampshire 23 11. Western Michigan 30 12. Colorado College 18 12. RPI 25 13. Western Michigan 16 13. Northeastern 18 14. Clarkson 10 14. Maine 14 15. Northeastern 5 15. St. Cloud 10 There were no media polls posted this week, so there is no media composite or Tadpoll. Here is a composite of the three HOCKEY-L ratings, along with Tad-rate: HOCKEY-L TCHCR RPICH CHODR Team Record Rank Boston University 32-6 1 1 1 1 Michigan 33-6-1 2 2 2 2 Harvard 23-4-4 3 7 3 4 Lake Superior 27-10-4 4 6 9 3 Mass Lowell 24-9-5 5 10 6 5 Minnesota 24-12-4 6 3 4 17 Wisconsin 25-14-1 7 4 7 6 New Hampshire 24-11-3 7 11 5 8 Michigan State 23-12-5 9 13 12 13 RPI 21-10-4 10 18 11 7 Colorado College 23-11-5 11 5 13 14 Western Michigan 24-12-3 12 12 10 19 St. Cloud 21-13-4 13 8 14 10 Northeastern 20-11-7 14 14 8 15 Clarkson 20-9-5 15 19 16 16 --------------------------------------------------------------- Northern Michigan 22-16-1 9 15 11 Maine 6-29-1 15 17 9 Boston College 15-16-5 21 19 12 Tad-rate: 1. Boston University (3) 45 2. Michigan 42 3. Harvard 34 4. Wisconsin 31 5. Lake Superior 30 6. Mass Lowell 27 7. Minnesota 25 8. New Hampshire 24 9. Colorado College 16 St. Cloud 16 11. RPI 14 12. Northern Michigan 13 13. Northeastern 11 14. Michigan State 10 Western Michigan 10 Just to throw even more fuel on the fire... using Tad-rate, the preliminary seedings for the NC$$ tournaments would have been: East: Boston University, Harvard, Mass Lowell, New Hampshire, RPI, Northeastern West: Michigan, Wisconsin, Lake Superior, Minnesota, Colorado College, St. Cloud (giving the edge to Colorado College based on their 3-0-1 season record vs. St. Cloud) New Hampshire and Northeastern cross over to the Western regional (letting RPI stay at home), while Colorado College and St. Cloud go East. Then, reseeding within the regionals produces the final tournament seeds: East: Boston University, Harvard, Mass Lowell, Colorado College, RPI, St. Cloud West: Michigan, Wisconsin, Lake Superior, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Northeastern RPI and St. Cloud switch places to prevent a first-round matchup between WCHA members Colorado College and St. Cloud. This could also have been prevented by swapping Mass Lowell and Colorado College, but RPI and St. Cloud are much closer in the Tad-rate than the other two are. So in the Tad-rate Tournament, the Eastern regionals have Colorado College facing RPI with the winner taking on Boston University, and Mass Lowell playing St. Cloud with Harvard getting the winner. In the West, Lake Superior faces Northeastern (sounds familiar) for the right to play Wisconsin, while Minnesota and New Hampshire battle with Michigan getting the winner. I know the Michigan State and Western Michigan folks would hate these seedings, but somehow, they come out a lot neater than the actual NC$$ ones did. Oh, well, we can dream... -- HOCKEY-L poll instructions are available in the archives. To get a copy, send a message containing the line GET HOCKEY-L POLLINST to: [log in to unmask] To vote in the HOCKEY-L poll, send your response to [log in to unmask] The deadline for responses is Tuesday at midnight. The poll is released every Wednesday morning. Questions about the poll should be sent to [log in to unmask] .