{"id":55504,"date":"2014-01-14T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=55504"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:50:26","slug":"minnesota-a-near-unanimous-pick-at-top-of-d-i-mens-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/01\/14\/minnesota-a-near-unanimous-pick-at-top-of-d-i-mens-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota a near-unanimous pick at top of D-I men’s poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
Minnesota garnered 48 of 50 first-place votes in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll to stay atop the national rankings.<\/p>\n
The Gophers defeated Penn State Sunday night in their only action of the weekend and then swept the Nittany Lions with a win Monday night.<\/p>\n
Ferris State climbs to No. 2 this week after a sweep of Michigan Tech and the Bulldogs had one first-place vote on the ballots.<\/p>\n
No. 3 St. Cloud State, down one after splitting with Denver, also tallied a first-place nod.<\/p>\n
Boston College defeated Providence and tied Brown and jumps one to No. 4, while Quinnipiac tied Harvard, beat Union and beat Rensselaer to rise two places to No. 5 this week.<\/p>\n
Union falls two to No. 6 with the QU loss and a win over Princeton, Providence falls one to No. 7 after losing in overtime to Northeastern and to BC, Yale beat Harvard and jumps two spots to No. 8, Wisconsin swept Michigan and moves up five to No. 9 and with a loss to Northeastern, Massachusetts-Lowell drops a spot to No. 10.<\/p>\n
Northeastern’s two wins propels the Huskies from No. 16 to No. 11, idle Cornell stays 12th, Michigan tumbles from No. 8 to No. 13, Clarkson split with Merrimack and is down three notches to No. 14 and with a sweep of Alabama-Huntsville, Notre Dame keeps the No. 15 slot for another week.<\/p>\n
Denver is up one to No. 16, New Hampshire topped Dartmouth and jumps three spots to sit 17th, while Vermont beat St. Lawrence and lost to Colgate to keep a firm hold on No. 18.<\/p>\n
With a win over Boston University, Maine enters the rankings at No. 19 and with a sweep over Colorado College, North Dakota is back to being ranked at No. 20.<\/p>\n
In addition, nine other schools received votes this week.<\/p>\n
The USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll consists of 50 voters, including 28 coaches from the Division I conferences and 22 beat writers and sports professionals from across the country.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minnesota garnered 48 of 50 first-place votes in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll to stay atop the national rankings. The Gophers defeated Penn State Sunday night in their only action of the weekend and then swept the Nittany Lions with a win Monday night. Ferris State climbs to No. 2 this week after […]<\/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