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22-23 USCHO Poll

New poll released today, November 7th:
https://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/

Top three from the WCHA (Gophers/Buckeyes/Badgers) are unchanged from last week. Movers of two or more from the 10/31 poll:
- Minnesota Duluth drops two spots from No. 5 to 7 after being swept by the Gophers
- Colgate moves up two to No. 4
- Yale moves up two to No. 6
- Providence is up two to No. 10
- Boston College no longer ranked in this week's poll
 
Yale is the last undefeated team and it’s November 7. Seems kind of early to be down to 1. Yale is off this weekend and then plays Penn State at home.

Nice job by St Cloud.
 
New poll released here: https://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-womens-poll/

- The WCHA continues their hold the on top three spots (MN, OSU and Wisconsin)
- Colgate, Quinnipiac, Yale, Minnesota Duluth, Northeastern and Cornell hold Nos. 4-9 respectively.
- Providence was the only team to fall three (10 to 13)
- While Connecticut was the only team to fall two (12 to 14)

All in all, a remarkably stable poll this week.
 
So OSU the new old #1, or does UW jump them since MN tied and beat OSU and UW tied and beat MN? UW had 1 first place vote going in and the game 2 stats very much favor UW. I wish UW had played OSU already to know where they sit against them, but 4 games in 2023 await both teams. OSU will have 2 days of reckoning against Colgate in a few days. UW plays @ Q in early January, that is stacking up to be a huge series as well.
 
From Eeyore on another thread:
“I remain of the opinion that there is little quality gap between Minnesota, Ohio State, and Wisconsin”

I agree with this. For ranking though, since Minn and Wisco both have losses to respectable but non top ten teams, and since Minn got a win and a shoot out loss on the road to OSU, and lost the series to Wisco… I’d rank QU at #1 for now followed by this trio. OSU has no bad losses but Minn doesn’t help them by going technically winless in their last 3.

Yale needs to keep amassing wins. Colgate needs a big WCHA series which they have now but OSU looks like a freight train. That one will come down to can OSU goalies handle Serdachny and Kaltounkova.
 
Timothy A said:
So OSU the new old #1, or does UW jump them since MN tied and beat OSU and UW tied and beat MN? UW had 1 first place vote going in and the game 2 stats very much favor UW.
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Clearly the pollsters don't understand logic, but that's ok. OSU did beat UMD in OT (at home) whereas UW lost to UMD in OT (on the road).

Yale 2 first place votes after only 6 games is interesting.
 
Without putting a ton of time into it, at this juncture my Top 10 would be:

1. Ohio State
2. Wisconsin
3. Minnesota
4. Quinnipiac
5. Colgate
6. Northeastern
7. Minnesota Duluth
8. Yale
9. Clarkson
10. Cornell
 
Timothy A said:
Yale 2 first place votes after only 6 games is interesting.
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Not sure why Yale isn't getting more love. I guess the win over Harvard looks unimpressive after UMD thumps the Crimson, but all Yale has done so far is win. I'm wondering if the top 10 teams are a case of "on any given day." Not a ton of separation at this point.
 
Agreed. Not sure why Yale wouldn't be getting more love. Yale does have the win against Quinnipiac and all a team can do is play the teams on the schedule. I also agree that most of the teams in the top 10 can likely beat each other in a one-off on any given day. I have no idea why Northeastern would be ahead of Yale or Duluth. That makes no sense to me. Losses to Maine and Providence and then a Hockey East schedule.
 
My conspiracy theory is that BC is intentionally bad now so NU doesn't have any good in-conference opponent and their PWR ranking drops.
 
tedlasso said:
Agreed. Not sure why Yale wouldn't be getting more love. Yale does have the win against Quinnipiac and all a team can do is play the teams on the schedule. I also agree that most of the teams in the top 10 can likely beat each other in a one-off on any given day. I have no idea why Northeastern would be ahead of Yale or Duluth. That makes no sense to me. Losses to Maine and Providence and then a Hockey East schedule.
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Little bit of history at play with Yale I think. No one trusts them yet. Yale? Really? Yale... I mean, I dunno man...
 
TitleIXHockey said:
My conspiracy theory is that BC is intentionally bad now so NU doesn't have any good in-conference opponent and their PWR ranking drops.
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BU seems to be in on the conspiracy, except recently the Terriers decided to beat Vermont and UConn. Who is the second-best team in Hockey East?
 
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