the USCHO.com East Region PWR<\/a>. Norwich received the No. 1 spot in the computer ranking, which simulates NCAA selection criteria, but ended up at No. 4 in the poll.<\/p>\nThree of the top five positions in the poll were filled with teams from the NCHA, as No. 3 Wis.-River Falls and No. 5 Wis.-Superior find themselves facing each other on Friday night in an NCHA semifinal game. Both schools had the week off.<\/p>\n
Through a fluke of scheduling, many teams were off last week, and so play was spotty. Some big upsets include an 8-1 trouncing of No. 11 Colby by unranked Hamilton. Colby fell three spots as a result, despite a 5-0 victory of Amherst on Saturday. Also, No. 15 Bowdoin fell three places following a pair of ties, also against Amherst and Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Postseason play begins in earnest next week, as the ECAC East, the MIAC, the NCHA, the NESCAC and the SUNYAC all have semifinal or quarterfinal games. <\/p>\n
The USCHO.com Poll is compiled by U.S. College Hockey Online, and consists of 15 voters, including coaches and beat writers from across the country.<\/p>\n
The East and West Region Pairwise Rankings attempt to mimic the process used by the NCAA Division III Selection Committee to determine participants for the men’s hockey tournament. A team is only compared against Division III teams within that team’s region.<\/p>\n
The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or person, provided USCHO’s URL (http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/) accompanies the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Norbert maintained first place in this week’s USCHO.com Division III Men’s Poll, despite not playing a game. The Green Knights await Wis.-Stevens Point in the NCHA semifinals on Friday. St. Norbert also stays No. 1 in the USCHO.com West Region Pairwise Rankings (PWR). With a 3-2 overtime win over No. 4 Norwich, Middlebury finished […]<\/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
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