Trio Merits Top-10 Respect
ALBANY, NY -- Three ECAC Hockey teams earned positions in the top ten in this week's 2009-10 college hockey polls released Monday, November 30, 2009. Quinnipiac springs to the No. 4/6 positions, Cornell clasps onto the No. 7/7 spots, while Yale strides to the No. 10/10 slot in the USCHO.com rankings and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Poll respectively.
Riding the nation's longest unbeaten streak (8-0-0) Quinnipiac made the biggest leap of any team this week jumping five positions from the No. 9 spot to the No. 4 slot in the USCHO.com Poll and from the No. 10 spot to the No. 6 position in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Poll. The Bobcats merited seven first-place votes and 799 total votes in the USCHO.com Poll and 353 points with one first-place vote in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Poll. The Bobcats were 2-0-0 last week, handling intra-conference foe Princeton, 5-1, and downing No. 9 Massachusetts, 5-4 in overtime. Quinnipiac currently has sole possession of first-place in ECAC Hockey.
After a 1-0-1 week Cornell preserved the No. 7 spot in the USCHO.com Poll collecting 708 points and jumped to the No. 7 spot from the No. 8 position in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Poll with 353 points. The Big Red doubled-up Colgate, 4-2 in conference action Tuesday and then skated to a 3-3 overtime tie against Hockey East foe Boston University in Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden Saturday. Cornell features the most prolific power-play in the nation converting on 15 of 47 chances (31.9%).
Defending league and tournament champion Yale skipped from the No. 11 to the No. 10 position in both the USCHO.com poll earning 497 points and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Poll with 198 points. The Bulldogs improved their record to 5-2-2 overall by winning two non-conference games last week handling both Sacred Heart by a count of 8-2 and Holy Cross by a 7-3 margin.
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About the Polls:
The USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll consists of 50 voters, including 28 coaches from the Division I conferences and 22 beat writers and sports professionals from across the country. The poll, published weekly by the Associated Press, is a joint production of USCHO.com, which provides in-depth coverage of college sports, including hockey, lacrosse, soccer and others, and CBS College Sports Networks, Inc., the only digital media company dedicated solely to college sports. CBS College Sports operates a 24-hour college sports cable network, also available via DISH and DirecTV satellite.
The 15th 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 Magazine, the most widely distributed hockey magazine in the world.
