{"id":31713,"date":"2010-09-28T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/09\/28\/north-dakota-runaway-favorite-in-wcha-polls\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:04:10","slug":"north-dakota-runaway-favorite-in-wcha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/09\/28\/north-dakota-runaway-favorite-in-wcha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Runaway Favorite in WCHA Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
North Dakota is the nearly unanimous choice of WCHA coaches and media members to win that league’s regular season title.<\/p>\n
The Fighting Sioux took 10 of 12 first-place votes in the coaches poll, organized by the Grand Forks Herald<\/i> and 28 of 29 first-place votes in the media poll, conducted by KZIO-FM of Duluth, Minn.<\/p>\n
St. Cloud State got the other first-place votes — two from the coaches to finish second and one from the media to finish third behind Minnesota-Duluth.<\/p>\n
North Dakota defenseman Chay Genoway was selected as the preseason player of the year by the media, while Minnesota-Duluth forward Jack Connolly got the honors from the coaches.<\/p>\n
Colorado College forward Jaden Schwartz was the consensus pick as the preseason rookie of the year.<\/p>\n
The full polls follow:<\/p>\n
Team (first-place votes) Points<\/b>
1. North Dakota (10) 120
2. St. Cloud State (2) 105
3. Minnesota-Duluth 100
4. Denver 88
5. Minnesota 82
6. Colorado College 67
7. Wisconsin 64
8. Nebraska-Omaha 55
9. Bemidji State 46
10. Minnesota State 31
11. Alaska-Anchorage 19
12. Michigan Tech 15<\/pre>\nMedia Poll<\/h4>\n
Team (first-place votes) Points<\/b>
1. North Dakota (28) 347
2. Minnesota-Duluth 300
3. St. Cloud State (1) 295
4. Denver 242
5. Wisconsin 218
6. Minnesota 203
7. Colorado College 182
8. Bemidji State 156
9. Nebraska-Omaha 125
10. Minnesota State 97
11. Alaska-Anchorage 51
12. Michigan Tech 46<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Dakota is the nearly unanimous choice of WCHA coaches and media members to win that league’s regular season title. The Fighting Sioux took 10 of 12 first-place votes in the coaches poll, organized by the Grand Forks Herald and 28 of 29 first-place votes in the media poll, conducted by KZIO-FM of Duluth, Minn. […]<\/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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