USCHO/D3hockey.com Poll Comparison

[PrezdeJohnson09]

Alright so this was the first week of having two D-III Men's National Polls...here is how they compared.

D3hockey.com

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Norwich (19)	4-0	292	
2	Oswego State (1)	7-1-1	277	
3	Castleton State	6-0	234	
4	UW-River Falls	6-0-2	225	
5	Plattsburgh State	5-1	219	
6	Adrian	6-1	199	
7	St. Norbert	5-2-2	165	
8	Elmira	4-2	146	
9	Utica	5-2	130	
10	Milwaukee Engineering	5-1	113	
11	Middlebury	2-0	99	
12	UW-Superior	4-2-2	83	
13	Neumann	3-2	78	
14	St. Thomas	5-1-1	40	
15	New England College	5-2	17
 
Others receiving votes: Curry 16, Marian 14, Williams 12, Bowdoin 12, Manhattanville 6, St. Olaf, 5, Amherst 4, UW-Eau Claire 4, Buffalo State 3, Hobart 2, Salem State 2, Plymouth State 1, UW-Stout 1, Tufts 1

USCHO.com Poll

1	Norwich	(18)	4-0-0	297	1
2	Oswego		7-1-1	273	2
3	Castleton	( 2)	6-0-0	255	3
4	Adrian		6-1-0	232	4
5	Wisconsin-River Falls		6-0-2	222	5
6	Plattsburgh		5-1-0	202	6
7	St. Norbert		5-2-2	173	8
8	Milwaukee School of		5-1-0	138	9
9	Utica		5-2-0	131	7
10	Elmira		4-2-0	123	11
11	Middlebury		2-0-0	83	NR
12	Wisconsin-Superior		4-2-2	54	13
13	St. Thomas		5-1-1	47	NR
14	Neumann		3-2-0	39	12
15	New England College		5-2-0	34	15
Others receiving votes: Williams 23, Wisconsin-Eau Claire 14, Amherst 13, Curry 12, Bowdoin 10, Marian 10, Plymouth State 8, Tufts 2, Buffalo State 1, Manhattanville 1, Salem State 1, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 1, Wisconsin-Stout 1.

Not too many differences really...The same 15 teams are ranked in both polls and the biggest difference one team is in position to the other is two spots.

Here is the average of the two polls.

#  Team       (1st)    Points    D3H     USCHO   
1. Norwich (18.5) 294.5 1 1
2. Oswego (0.5) 275 2 2
3. Castleton (1) 244.5 3 3
4. River Falls 223.5 4 5
5. Adrian 215.5 6 4
6. Plattsburgh 210.5 5 6
7. St. Norbert 169 7 7
8. Elmira 134.5 8 10
9. Utica 130.5 9 9
10. MSOE 125.5 10 8
11. Middlebury 93 11 11
12. Superior 68.5 12 12
13. Neumann 57.5 13 14
14. St. Thomas 43.5 14 13
15. New England College 25.5 15 15

 

[collegehcky2]

Re: USCHO/D3hockey.com Poll Comparison

A little surprised that Norwich isn't the unanimous #1 in the d3 hockey poll.

 

[OSU2010]

Re: USCHO/D3hockey.com Poll Comparison

Norwich has only played 4 games, if they are still undefeated after this weekend then i could see them at #1 unanimously,

They beat UNE 1-4, Southern Maine 1-4, NEC 5-2, and St. Anselm 2-3-1. Not exactly facing lots of schools with winning records in those 4 games. Not to discount their wins thus far, but if they want to be solidly on top then they have to win the Primelink.