2025-26 Division III Women's Hockey

[SHockey98]

I don’t think this needs to be mentioned here since the diehards live here, but I will anyway. The USCHO voters are becoming a joke with the NESCAC stuff. How Amherst and Middlebury are ahead of Hamline and Augsburg is gross.

Hamline beat the absolute piss out of Endicott in their own rink, who beat and tied Middlebury. The bias is insane. D3HN’s rankings are at least somewhat fair.

(I know these rankings don’t matter… blah blah blah. but they do for programs like the latter two- who seldom reach these heights.)

USCHO lost so much damn credibility, probably have all 9 NESCAC coaches in their poll. NESCAC also runs D3 behind the scenes so NPI is most definitely rigged in their favor

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

NESCAC also runs D3 behind the scenes so NPI is most definitely rigged in their favor

This is completely false. The NESCAC was not involved in the committee that created the framework for the NPI.

I'm not debating the uscho/d3hockeynews polls might show bias towards traditional powerhouse schools or conferences. But, what "poll" doesn't have that? look at the SEC in football, Big 10 and ACC in basketball etc. It's everywhere.

The NPI is what matters and judges teams based on real data from the current season and current season only and doesn't take into account Middlebury winning a national championship 3 years ago or Chatham being a perennially weaker team.

The NESCAC is traditionally the deepest conference in D3 women's hockey and has been for quite some time. Their OOC results speak for themselves. The NPI takes out the bias and all the smoke-filled room non-sense that went on for 20+ years on the men's and women's side.

At the end of the day, win your games and the rest takes care of itself.