{"id":25243,"date":"2002-11-03T23:24:31","date_gmt":"2002-11-04T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/11\/03\/st-thomas-tops-miac-preseason-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:18","slug":"st-thomas-tops-miac-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/11\/03\/st-thomas-tops-miac-preseason-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas Tops MIAC Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
Defending champion St. Thomas is picked to repeat by MIAC coaches in the
\nleague’s 2002-2003 pre-season poll.<\/p>\n
The Tommies received seven of nine first-place votes, with the other two going to last year’s runner-up, Gustavus Adolphus. The Golden Gusties lost to St. Thomas in overtime of the MIAC championship game last season.<\/p>\n
Not much is expected to change from last season to this one, according to the poll. The team order in the pre-season poll matches exactly the final standings from last season.<\/p>\n
(first-place votes in parentheses)<\/p>\n
1. St. Thomas (7)
\n2. Gustavus Adolphus(2)
\n3. Augsburg
\n4. Saint John’s
\n5. Concordia-Moorhead
\n6. Saint Mary’s
\n7. Hamline
\n8. St. Olaf
\n9. Bethel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defending champion St. Thomas is picked to repeat by MIAC coaches in the league’s 2002-2003 pre-season poll. The Tommies received seven of nine first-place votes, with the other two going to last year’s runner-up, Gustavus Adolphus. The Golden Gusties lost to St. Thomas in overtime of the MIAC championship game last season. Not much is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n