Mavericks now No. 4

Minnesota State moved up to No. 4 in the latest USCHO poll this week after winning its eighth and ninth games in a row. The Mavericks are also fourth in the all-important Pairwise Rankings, and College Hockey News crunched the numbers and determined that MSU is one of six teams that are 100 percent locks to get in the national tournament. The Mavericks stayed fifth in the USA Today/USA Hockey rankings. Here is the latest USCHO poll:

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
Minneapolis, Minn./February 19, 2018

   Team             (First Place)    Record   Pts  Last Week
 1 St. Cloud State           (28)   20- 6-4   967     3
 2 Cornell                   (18)   22- 3-2   940     4
 3 Denver                    ( 3)   17- 7-6   878     2
 4 Minnesota State           ( 1)   25- 7-0   853     5
 5 Notre Dame                       22- 8-2   845     1
 6 Ohio State                       19- 8-5   695     6
 7 Providence                       20- 9-4   687     8
 8 Minnesota                        19-13-2   619    10
 9 Minnesota Duluth                 16-13-3   550    11
10 Clarkson                         19- 8-5   546     7
11 Northeastern                     19- 8-5   527    12
12 North Dakota                     14-10-8   499     9
13 Michigan                         16-13-3   355    18
14 Omaha                            15-14-1   345    13
15 Bowling Green                    19- 9-6   312    14
16 Northern Michigan                20-11-3   222    17
17 Western Michigan                 14-14-2   201    15
18 Penn State                       14-13-5   133    16
19 Union                            20-13-1   119    NR
20 Boston College                   16-13-3   114    19

Others receiving votes: Boston University 41, Harvard 18,
Wisconsin 12, Mercyhurst 10, Colorado College 5, Maine 3,
Bemidji State 2, Connecticut 1, UMass Lowell 1.