USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll: March 8, 2010<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nUnder coach Dave Hakstol, the Sioux have made it a habit to pull things together after the holiday break and be a formidable team by the end of the season. When they started 7-1-1 this season, that formula was looking different. Same when they went 1-5 in a six-game stretch in January and February.<\/p>\n
But since that down period, North Dakota is 7-0, with series sweeps of Minnesota-Duluth, Colorado College and Michigan Tech.<\/p>\n
Denver and Miami nearly split the first-place votes this week after the Pioneers briefly lost the No. 1 spot in the PairWise Rankings following a 2-1 loss to Colorado College last Friday.<\/p>\n
But they rebounded with a 7-3 victory the next day and took 26 of the poll’s 50 first-place votes to maintain the top spot according to the panel of voters. Miami and Wisconsin stayed second and third, respectively, and Boston College moved up a spot to fourth.<\/p>\n
Yale (no change), St. Cloud State (down three), Bemidji State (no change), Cornell (no change) and Michigan State (up one) round out the top 10.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts-Lowell regained a spot in the top 20, unseating Maine. The River Hawks play at the Black Bears in a best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series starting Friday.<\/p>\n
There are four best-of-three conference playoff series between ranked teams this weekend, all starting Friday:<\/p>\n
• No. 11 New Hampshire hosts No. 19 Vermont in Hockey East;<\/p>\n
• No. 16 Northern Michigan hosts No. 12 Alaska in the CCHA;<\/p>\n
• No. 13 Ferris State hosts No. 18 Nebraska-Omaha in the CCHA;<\/p>\n
• and No. 14 Minnesota-Duluth hosts No. 15 Colorado College in the WCHA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The patented North Dakota second-half surge might look a little different this year, but the Sioux are definitely peaking toward the end of the season again. After five weeks outside the top five of the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, North Dakota is back in, checking in Monday at No. 5 and with a seven-game […]<\/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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