Monday, December 1, 2008

Rankings shakeup (updated)

Apparently a few pollsters were less than impressed with Minnesota State's tie and win at Bowling Green State over the weekend or its undefeated record in opposing barns. The Mavericks fell one spot in the latest USCHO.com poll and two spots in the USA Today rankings and are rated No. 11 in both.

In their defense, the entire poll was shaken up. Eight teams received at least one first-place vote and only one team in the top 20 -- Michigan at No. 14 -- is in the same spot it was in last week after a weekend featuring a lot of nonconference action. Here is this week's poll, with WCHA teams in bold and first-place votes in parenthesis.

USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll
1. Notre Dame (40)
2. Boston College (1)
3. Minnesota (2)
4. Miami (2)
5. Colorado College
6. Northeastern
7. Boston University (1)
8. Denver (1)
9. Princeton (2)
10. Air Force (1)
11. Minnesota State
12. Vermont
13. Cornell
14. Michigan
15. Alaska-Anchorage
16. Dartmouth
17. UMass-Lowell
18. Nebraska-Omaha
19. New Hampshire
20. Alaska
Others receiving votes: St. Cloud State, Wisconsin, UMass, Ohio State, Maine, North Dakota, Minnesota Duluth, Yale, Harvard, Ferris State, Niagara, Quinnipiac

USA Today/USA Hockey Men's Poll
1. Notre Dame (33)
2. Minnesota (1)
3. Boston College
4. Miami
5. Boston University
6. Colorado College
7. Denver
8. Northeastern
9. Princeton
10. Air Force
11. Minnesota State
12. Vermont
13. Cornell
14. Michigan
15. New Hampshire
Others receiving votes: UMass-Lowell, Alaska-Anchorage, Dartmouth, Nebraska-Omaha, St. Cloud State, Alaska, Wisconsin.

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