USCHO.com Division III<\/a> men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hockey poll? <\/p>\nEight different teams received first place votes, with six each having a lone supporter. The top two squads–Plattsburgh, last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ranked team for much of the year and Neumann, the defending national champion–are separated by a mere eight points, with the Knights securing four more first place votes than the No. 1 Cardinals. <\/p>\n
Universities hailing from Wisconsin–Stout and Superior–each received a first place vote and come in third and fourth, respectively, in the poll. The Hobart Statesmen (buoyed by their own first place vote) are fifth.<\/p>\n
The Adrian Bulldogs, long a lightning rod for their exclusion from the national tournament, are finally on equally D-III footing this season with their conference (the MCHA) finally gaining an automatic bid to the national tournament. Recipients of one first place vote, Adrian is ranked sixth.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the top 10 are Middlebury, Oswego (one first place vote), Amherst, and Gustavus Adolphus.<\/p>\n
The St. Norbert Green Knights, hoping to rebound from a disappointing season (from their perspective) comes in at No. 11 while erstwhile powerhouse Manhattanville, despite receiving the only remaining first place vote, clocks in at No. 12.<\/p>\n
St. Scholastica, Elmira, and Norwich round out the top 15.<\/p>\n
Also receiving votes were the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Curry, Hamline, St. Thomas, Nichols, Babson, New England College, UW-Stevens Point, Castleton, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, St. Olaf, and Wentworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Controlled chaos. How else to better explain USCHO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inaugural USCHO.com Division III men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hockey poll? Eight different teams received first place votes, with six each having a lone supporter. The top two squads–Plattsburgh, last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ranked team for much of the year and Neumann, the defending national champion–are separated by a mere eight points, […]<\/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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