North Dakota Maintains Top Ranking in USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Poll for Third Straight Week
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
2016-17 Men’s College Hockey Poll – Week #3
(First-place votes in parentheses)
Rank School
Last Week’s Rank
2016-17 Record
Weeks in Top 15
1. University of North Dakota, 510 (34) 1 3-0-0 3
2. University of Minnesota Duluth, 435 4 3-1-2 3
3. Quinnipiac University, 396 3 2-1-1 3
4. University of Notre Dame, 392 6 3-1-0 3
5. UMass Lowell, 361 7 2-0-2 3
6. University of Denver, 316 10 2-2-0 3
7. University of Minnesota, 298 8 2-0-0 3
8. Boston University, 279 2 1-2-0 3
9. Minnesota State University, 198 — 4-0-0 1
10. Boston College, 190 9 2-2-0 3
11. Harvard University, 145 12 0-0-0 3
12. University of Michigan, 133 13 2-1-0 3
13. St. Lawrence University, 128 — 3-1-0 1
14. St. Cloud State University, 71 5 0-2-0 3
15. Providence College, 54 11 1-2-0 3
Others Receiving Votes: Northeastern University, 44; Ohio State University, 39; Bemidji State University, 34; Yale University, 17; Penn State University, 12; University of Nebraska Omaha, 11; Western Michigan University, 11; University of Maine, 3; Lake Superior State University, 1.
Notes: Defending NCAA national champion, University of North Dakota, ranks first with 510 points and all 34 first-place votes … The Hockey East Association has five teams in the rankings … The National Collegiate Hockey Conference follows with four teams, while the ECAC has three teams, the Big Ten has two teams and the WCHA has one.
About the Poll: The 22nd annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’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 six NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the AHCA and USA Hockey.
