Mavericks still 7th, Coatta honored

Minnesota State remained No. 7 in the USCHO rankings and rose to that spot (from No. 8) in the USA Today poll following its series split at North Dakota. Notre Dame is now No. 1 in both polls, although five teams are receiving first-place votes. Bowling Green is now No. 15 in the USCHO poll.

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
Minneapolis, Minn./October 22, 2018

   Team             (First Place)    Record   Pts  Last Week
 1 Notre Dame                (28)    3- 0-1   960     2
 2 St. Cloud State           (14)    4- 0-0   918     4
 3 Minnesota Duluth          ( 5)    4- 1-1   902     3
 4 Ohio State                ( 1)    3- 1-0   862     1
 5 Minnesota                 ( 2)    1- 0-1   756     6
 6 Providence                        3- 1-1   752     5
 7 Minnesota State                   3- 1-0   687     7
 8 Cornell                           0- 0-0   626     8
 9 Denver                            3- 0-1   597     9
10 Penn State                        4- 0-0   586    10
11 Union                             4- 0-1   437    20
12 Michigan                          1- 2-0   341    11
13 Princeton                         0- 0-0   325    14
14 Wisconsin                         3- 1-0   324    15
15 Bowling Green                     3- 1-0   226    17
16 Massachusetts                     3- 1-0   213    NR
17 North Dakota                      1- 2-1   210    16
18 Northeastern                      2- 2-0   198    12
19 Western Michigan                  3- 2-0   162    19
20 Quinnipiac                        3- 0-0   112    NR

Others receiving votes: Boston University 75, Colorado
College 75, Clarkson 65, Bemidji State 20, Boston College
18, Harvard 14, Miami 14, Maine 9, RIT 9, UMass Lowell 3,
Colgate 2, Arizona State 1, Brown 1.

Meanwhile, Minnesota State senior forward Max Coatta was named WCHA Forward of the Week after his four-goal, five-point weekend against the Fighting Hawks. That included his hat trick on Friday. It was the first time Coatta has won a WCHA weekly award.