{"id":33556,"date":"2010-12-07T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=33556"},"modified":"2010-12-07T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:05:14","slug":"yale-takes-over-at-top-of-mens-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/12\/07\/yale-takes-over-at-top-of-mens-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale takes over at top of men’s poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the first time in the program’s history, Yale is the top-ranked team in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll.<\/p>\n
With 34 first place votes, the Bulldogs also become the first ECAC Hockey team to be the No. 1 team in the country since the end of the 2002-2003 season when Cornell was atop the rankings heading into the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
Minnesota-Duluth falls to No. 2, New Hampshire leaps from No. 5 to No. 3, Boston College jumps four places from No. 8 to No. 4 and North Dakota is up to the fifth rank, up two from last week, to round out the top five.<\/p>\n
Finishing out the top ten has Miami holding steady at No. 6, Boston University at No. 7 after being No. 2 a week ago, Maine up one spot to No. 8, Denver up one to No. 9 and Nebraska-Omaha, swept by fellow WCHA newcomer Bemidji State, down to No. 10 after being fourth the last two weeks.<\/p>\n
The bottom ten sees Notre Dame at No. 11 and Michigan at No. 12, trading places from a week ago, Union (No. 13) and Alaska (No. 14) as they were a week ago, Rensselaer up one notch to No. 15 and switching with No. 16 Wisconsin, Merrimack jumping a rank to No. 17, Ferris State up two places to No. 18 and Western Michigan down a spot to No. 20.<\/p>\n
New to the rankings this week is Dartmouth as the Big Green enter at No. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time in the program’s history, Yale is the top-ranked team in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. With 34 first place votes, the Bulldogs also become the first ECAC Hockey team to be the No. 1 team in the country since the end of the 2002-2003 season when Cornell was atop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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