Wisconsin #1 in USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s College Hockey Poll Entering NCAA Tournament
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
2016-17 Women’s College Hockey Poll – Week #22
(First-place votes in parentheses)
Rank
School
Last Week’s Rank
2016-17 Record
Weeks in Top 10
1. University of Wisconsin, 190 (19) 1 31-2-4 22
2.
Clarkson University, 168
3 29-4-5 22
3. University of Minnesota Duluth, 155 2 25-6-5 21
4. Boston College, 129 6 27-5-5 22
5. University of Minnesota, 110 T4 25-7-5 22
6. St. Lawrence University, 98 T4 26-5-4 20
7. Cornell University, 78 7 20-8-5 8
8. Robert Morris University, 58 9 24-4-6 13
9. Princeton University, 37 8 20-10-3 12
10. Northeastern University, 14 — 22-12-3 5
This Week’s Top 10
Matchups
Saturday, March 11
No. 6 St. Lawrence
at
No. 4 Boston College
No. 7 Cornell
at
No. 2 Clarkson
No. 5 Minnesota
at
No. 3 Minnesota Duluth
No. 8 Robert Morris
at
No. 1 Wisconsin
(All four matchups are NCAA Tournament quarterfinal games)
Others Receiving Votes: Quinnipiac University, 8.
Notes: Wisconsin is the No. 1 team for the 22nd straight week as the NCAA Tournament begins this weekend … Northeastern returns to the top-10 after being ranked 10th in week 10 … The ECAC leads the way with four teams in the rankings while the WCHA has three teams, the Hockey East Association has two teams and the CHA has one team … To view past polls, click here.
About the Poll: The 20th annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s College Hockey Poll is conducted each week in conjunction with the American Hockey Coaches Association. The poll includes input from coaches and journalists representing each of the four NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the AHCA and USA Hockey.
