Cornell Maintains No. 1 Spot in National Polls
ALBANY, NY – Cornell, winners of three games last week, maintains the top spot in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls released, Monday, December 6 and Tuesday, December 7 respectively. This marks the third time this season that the Big Red sits in the No. 1 position.
With its three victories last weekend, Cornell is now riding a nine-game winning streak and has a four point lead in the ECAC Hockey standings. The Big Red posted a 4-1 win at Syracuse last Tuesday in non-league play and earned two league wins last week by defeating St. Lawrence Friday, 3-1 and blanking Clarkson, 3-0 Saturday. With an overall record of 13-1-1 Cornell owns the nation’s best winning percentage (.929). Special teams have been a key to Cornell’s success as it is ranked first in the country in both power-play production (15/ 58 - 25.91%) and penalty killing (46/ 48 - 95.8%). Cornell earned 142 points and eight first-place votes in the USCHO.com poll and 179 points and ten first-place votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.
Cornell is now off for nearly five full weeks, returning to action on Jan. 7 with a contest at Yale in New Haven, Conn.
Quinnipiac also received votes in the national polls this week.
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The USCHO.com Poll is compiled weekly and consists of 15 voters, including 12 coaches of Division I programs and three women's hockey writers. USCHO.com provides in-depth coverage of college sports, including hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and others.
The 14th 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 Magazine, the most widely distributed hockey magazine in the world.
