Is there anybody out there

[Irishdave]

JUst to start some chatter


2013-2014 ACHA Men's Division 1 Ranking #2
Rank School Name 1st Votes 12-13 Record Pts Previous
1 Minot State 27 0-0-0 833 1
2 Arizona State 10 3-0-0 824 2
3 Oklahoma 3-0-1 742 5
4 Illinois 5-0-0 712 6
5 Lindenwood 1-1-0 700 3
6 Adrian 3-2-0 656 4
7 Robert Morris (IL) 2-0-0 654 7
8 Iowa State 6-0-0 615 8
9 Delaware 1 4-0-0 557 10
10 Ohio 2-0-1 551 9
11 Central Oklahoma 4-1-0 510 14
12 Davenport 0-0-0 474 11
13 Oakland 4-0-0 473 12
14 Liberty 5-0-0 460 13
15 Stony Brook 2-0-0 368 15
16 Rhode Island 4-0-0 335 T 16
17 Navy 3-2-1 284 T 16
18 John Carroll 3-0-1 267 19
19 Rutgers 1-1-0 256 18
20 Arizona 2-0-0 242 20
21 Buffalo 2-2-0 107 22
22 Niagara 0-2-0 91 21
23 Eastern Michigan 4-1-0 90 25
24 Lebanon Valley 0-0-0 88 23
25 West Chester 1-1-0 45 24 .
Others receiving votes: Duquesne, Mercyhurst, Robert Morris (PA), Canisius, Indiana, Wayne State, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

[slowe]

Re: Is there anybody out there

I'm a University of Illinois fan without a home on the main board so I'll occasionally pop in here. But yeah, typically a pretty dead forum.

Illini seem to have a decent team. They have a history of going after Illinois AAA talent which is pretty good, but tough competition against teams like Lindenwood, Minot, or Arizona that have a strong history of going after Junior players. Illinois has one or two on the incoming freshman, so hopefully that will help. They played a weak schedule to start. A lot of ACHA D2 teams. Not good prep, so I think they may suffer a little now that they are switching to D1 teams. I'm kind of surprised they are ranked as high as they are to start.

Seems like the usual powers at the top in the beginning of the season. You think that will hold? Anyone new going to make a push or same old same old?

If you're interested in ACHA news a pretty decent site I've found is Achatalk. I don't think they have a whole lot of original stuff, but the site does a good job of aggregating team articles or stuff on the ACHA in general.

[ballgame]

Re: Is there anybody out there

hockey101 is where most of the ACHA talk happens

www.hockey101.com