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Nathan Smith scored twice and assisted on another as Minnesota State rallied for a 6-3 win at No. 1 UMass on Sunday (photo: Matt Dewkett).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After sweeping defending national champion Massachusetts, Minnesota State is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks jump four spots in this week’s rankings.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top five, St. Cloud State remains No. 2, as does Michigan at No. 3 and Minnesota at No. 4. Minnesota Duluth is up one to sit fifth this week.<\/p>\n

Boston College jumps one spot to No. 6, while UMass tumbles to No. 7, down from the top spot last week.<\/p>\n

North Dakota (No. 8), Quinnipiac (No. 9) and Boston University (No. 10) finish off the top 10 with each of the three teams ranked where they were a week ago.<\/p>\n

Northeastern is the lone new team in the top 20, joining the poll this week at No. 18.<\/p>\n

In addition, 16 other teams received votes in this week’s poll.<\/p>\n

The USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll consists of 50 voters, including coaches and beat writers and sports professionals from across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After sweeping defending national champion Massachusetts, Minnesota State is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. The Mavericks jump four spots in this week’s rankings. Rounding out the top five, St. Cloud State remains No. 2, as does Michigan at No. 3 and Minnesota at No. 4. Minnesota Duluth is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":129435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[901],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMinnesota State ascends to top of USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll after sweeping defending national champ UMass - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After sweeping defending national champion Massachusetts, Minnesota State is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll. 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