Mavericks 6th in national polls

Minnesota State bumped up a spot to No. 6 in both national polls on Monday following its impressive series sweep at Northern Michigan. The Mavericks, who are No. 7 in the all-important Pairwise Rankings, were seventh in both opinion polls last week.

For more on this past weekend's series, read my weekend review here.

Below is the USCHO poll. Go here for the USA Today/USA Hockey rankings.

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
Minneapolis, Minn./January 28, 2019

   Team             (First Place)    Record   Pts  Last Week
 1 St. Cloud State           (33)   18- 4-2   980     1
 2 Massachusetts             ( 3)   19- 5-0   920     2
 3 Minnesota Duluth          ( 7)   16- 6-2   888     5
 4 Ohio State                ( 6)   15- 5-4   878     3
 5 Quinnipiac                ( 1)   18- 5-1   792     6
 6 Minnesota State                  21- 6-1   764     7
 7 Denver                           14- 6-3   696     4
 8 Western Michigan                 15- 8-1   594    13
 9 Providence                       15- 7-4   546    14
10 Clarkson                         17- 7-0   509    10
11 Notre Dame                       14- 8-3   496    11
12 Northeastern                     15- 7-1   475     8
13 Bowling Green                    17- 7-3   424     9
13 Cornell                          12- 6-1   424    12
15 Penn State                       14-10-2   224    15
16 Arizona State                    17-10-1   221    17
17 UMass Lowell                     14- 8-2   195    19
18 Union                            12- 7-4   168    16
19 Harvard                          10- 6-3   101    NR
20 Lake Superior                    16- 8-2    99    18

Others receiving votes: North Dakota 70, Yale 19, Air Force
7, Boston University 7, American International 2, Bemidji
State 1.