Release the polls!

For the first time in its Division I history, Minnesota State swept a team ranked No. 1 in a weekend series when it won a pair of WCHA games at Michigan Tech.

According to MSU sports information, the Mavericks have had other significant sweeps, including last year's home sweep of No. 2 Ferris State, a home sweep of No. 2 Wisconsin in 2005-06, a home sweep of No. 4 Denver in 2007-08 and a home sweep of No. 7 North Dakota in 2002-03.

So what did the then-No. 9 (No. 2 in the Pairwise) Mavericks and then-No. 1 Huskies do in this week's polls? Well, MSU rose and Tech dropped, but the flip-flop most people expected to see did not happen (except in the Pairwise). However, Minnesota State's No. 7 ranking in the opinion polls is an all-time high for the program.

Here's how they look:

U.S. COLLEGE HOCKEY ONLINE
1. Boston University (42 first-place votes), 8-1-1, 988 points
2. North Dakota (3), 9-3-1, 889
3. Minnesota (1), 7-3-0, 825
4. UMass-Lowell, 8-2-3, 806
5. Miami, 10-4-0, 764
6. Michigan Tech, 10-2-0, 748
7. Minnesota State (3), 9-4-0, 746
8. Minnesota Duluth (1), 9-5-0, 615
9. Colgate, 9-4-1, 575
10. Denver, 8-3-0, 572

Other WCHA teams in rankings: 15-Bowling Green, 19-Northern Michigan, RV-Ferris State. For full top 20 go here.

USA HOCKEY/USA TODAY MAGAZINE
1. Boston University (27 first-place votes), 497 points
2. North Dakota (4), 447
3. Minnesota, 409
4. UMass-Lowell, 367
5. Michigan Tech (1), 358
6. Miami, 337
7. Minnesota State (2), 321
8. Minnesota Duluth, 241
9. Colgate, 236
10. Denver, 226

Other WCHA teams in rankings: 15-Bowling Green. For full top 15 go here.

PAIRWISE RANKINGS
1. Minnesota State
2. Nebraska Omaha
3t. Minnesota
3t. Michigan Tech
3t. Minnesota Duluth
6. Boston University
7. Miami
8. Bowling Green
9. Vermont
10. Denver
11. North Dakota
12. Quinnipiac
13. UMass-Lowell
14t. Harvard
14t. Penn State
16. Yale