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Polls 2021-2022

Division I Women's Poll - January 17, 2022

1. Wisconsin
2. Ohio State
3. Northeastern
4. Quinnipiac
5. Minnesota
6. Colgate
7. Clarkson
8. Minnesota Duluth
9. Harvard
10.Yale
Others Receiving Votes - Connecticut (6)

Once again, very little movement in this week's poll compared to last.
Quinnipiac and Minnesota trade places at 4/5
Minnesota Duluth moves up one to #8
Yale moves down two to #10
and Harvard moves up one to the 9th spot

This coming weekend in the WCHA Minnesota has an opportunity to shake things up a bit as they take on Wisconsin for a pair at Ridder, while UMD travels to Columbus hoping to gain at least a split against the Buckeyes.
 
Have some perspective…the loss was in OT after a 40+ save performance from RPI. Colgate should be #10 and Clarkson #9 IMO. Harvard feels like the sleeper team; where the heck did they come from, lurking from behind…
 
Northeastern at #1, with 6 first place votes and 130 'points' total
Minnesota #2, with 5 first place votes and 129 points total
Ohio State #3, with 3 first place votes and 125 points total
Wisconsin #4, with 2 first place votes and 125 points total

This is the best poll I remember. Nobody knows anything, and everything you know is wrong. :-)
 
I still think Minnesota is the 4th best team behind Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Northeastern.

This posters poll would be...

1. Ohio State - Losing to UMD has been an issue for them but they rebounded well from the loss
2. Wisconsin - Yes, evidently Minnesota is their kryptonite but other than that it's a toss-up between OSU and them for the top spot
3. Northeastern - Playing in Hockey East is not doing them any favors. Not enough good competition to rank them No. 1.
4. Minnesota - Maybe they need to schedule more games with Wisconsin. This is like the opposite of last year where they couldn't beat Wisconsin.
5. UMD - Not the best record but when you play in a league like the WCHA this is going to happen They are battle tested and with that first line they can compete with anyone.
6-10. Some teams from the ECAC. Maybe in this order...

6. Yale
7. Havard
8. Quinnipiac
9. Colgate
10. Clarkson
 
The ECAC is no pushover, but the way they round out the poll is unimpressive. When push comes to shove, they seldom dominate.
 
The most striking thing to me is to see 4 WCHA teams ranked in the Top 5 this late in the season.
 
Has there ever been a poll that ranked one team from one conference #1, four teams from a second conference ##2-5 and five teams from a third conference ##6-10?
Not saying it's wrong, just saying it has an unusual shape
 
TchrBill said:
Harvard feels like the sleeper team; where the heck did they come from, lurking from behind…
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That will happen when your league doesn't allow you to start playing until everybody else already has a 10-game body of work to show. Same thing with Yale being surprisingly good and Cornell dropping from the top 10 like a stone.
 
Watson Rink said:
Has there ever been a poll that ranked one team from one conference #1, four teams from a second conference ##2-5 and five teams from a third conference ##6-10?
Not saying it's wrong, just saying it has an unusual shape
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That's a question for Arlan. He has been quiet lately, but maybe could enlighten us on this subject.
 
robertearle said:
Northeastern at #1, with 6 first place votes and 130 'points' total
Minnesota #2, with 5 first place votes and 129 points total
Ohio State #3, with 3 first place votes and 125 points total
Wisconsin #4, with 2 first place votes and 125 points total

This is the best poll I remember. Nobody knows anything, and everything you know is wrong. :-)
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UM should be#1 hands down. Who else has not lost to the #1 team in the country in 4 games? No one. Nothing NE has done can eclipse that.
 
Watson Rink said:
That will happen when your league doesn't allow you to start playing until everybody else already has a 10-game body of work to show. Same thing with Yale being surprisingly good and Cornell dropping from the top 10 like a stone.
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Had considered that the Ivies start late, but most teams only have 4 or 5 games in hand, not 10. Clarkson has played 24; Har/Yale=19. Had also read that Cornell graduated a large class and lost others due to COVID. Even so, Colgate will struggle against them as only Colgate can.
 
Watson Rink said:
Has there ever been a poll that ranked one team from one conference #1, four teams from a second conference ##2-5 and five teams from a third conference ##6-10?
Not saying it's wrong, just saying it has an unusual shape
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The thing that really gets me is we're like a month away from the end of the regular season and we have FOUR teams getting MULTIPLE first place votes?? That's definitely never happened. It's probably never even happened in week one of the season, let alone week 15 or whatever this is.
 
TonyTheTiger20 said:
The thing that really gets me is we're like a month away from the end of the regular season and we have FOUR teams getting MULTIPLE first place votes?? That's definitely never happened. It's probably never even happened in week one of the season, let alone week 15 or whatever this is.
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There is more parity in women's hockey than ever before, especially within the top 15 teams.
 
TonyTheTiger20 said:
The thing that really gets me is we're like a month away from the end of the regular season and we have FOUR teams getting MULTIPLE first place votes?? That's definitely never happened. It's probably never even happened in week one of the season, let alone week 15 or whatever this is.
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This has been reminding me of 2017-2018 - not coincidentally the last Olympic year - when the final four was Clarkson, Colgate. Wisconsin, and Ohio State (and I remember thinking I have no idea who's going to win the championship). So I pulled up some of the February polls from that season. Feb 5th that year, Colgate 7 1st place votes, Wisconsin 5 votes and (sorry for bringing up bad memories) Boston College 3 votes, with Colgate and Ohio St essentially tied for fourth.

So is this just an Olympic year phenomenon?
 
Idk what to make of Minnesota. They got outshot what 41-22 and 33-25? Think it's more big game choking from Wisco / filing it under "sometimes you just lose to Bemidji".

I think talentwise Wisconsin is the better team. On the other hand I guess I should factor in the poor track record in big games into where I have them on my ballot. (It was first.)
 
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