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USCHO Women's Hockey Posters Poll

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1) Minnesota
2T) Wisconsin
2T) Clarkson
4) Cornell
5) BC
6) North Dakota
7) Harvard
8) Mercyhurst
9) Quinnipiac
10) Boston University
 
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1) Minnesota
2) Clarkson
3) Cornell
4) Wisconsin
5) Boston College
6) Harvard
7) North Dakota
8) Mercyhurst
9) Quinnipiac
10) Boston University
 
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1) Minnesota
2) Cornell
3) Clarkson
4) Wisconsin
5) Harvard
6) Boston College
7) Mercyhurst
8) Boston University
9) doesn't matter
10) no one cares anymore
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
1) Minnesota
2) Cornell
3) Clarkson
4) Wisconsin
5) Harvard
6) Boston College
7) Mercyhurst
8) Boston University
9) doesn't matter
10) no one cares anymore
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THIS! Bracket Set. Poll season over. Let the tourney begin. May the best team win.
 
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1) RIT -- they're the only school that we're certain will end the season with a win.
2) North Dakota.
 
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OnMAA said:
Admit it TTT, would you not not love for BU to win over Minny and then Wisco so BC can have another crack at them ?
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I honestly do not know the answer to this lol

But whether I want them to win or not, it is extraordinarily unlikely that they do.
 
TonyTheTiger20 said:
Okay fine, no more poll. But would there be interest in a tourney bracket pool via Paypal?
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I think that we could do a final poll after the tournament. That provides some insight as to how fans think teams compare once all of the hockey is done for the season.
 
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Eeyore said:
If you're hoping for a rematch with BU, that's puts them uncomfortably close to having more national championships than you've got, doesn't it?
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I see it as Boston neighborly help to get BC that most elusive title. Do it in Memory of Boston Strong, United they stand, to commemorate those that suffered on Patriots day last year.
 
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Eeyore said:
If you're hoping for a rematch with BU, that's puts them uncomfortably close to having more national championships than you've got, doesn't it?
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I am absolutely NAHT hoping for a rematch with BU for that very reason. I am hoping for the easiest path to the title.

It has nothing to do with 'not wanting to see my team prove itself' like ARM suggested in another thread. I want my team to win the title. They have a better chance of winning the title by playing the lowest ranked teams possible. Should I hope the BC men don't get the #1 overall seed to they can play the AHA champ instead of someone like Michigan? No, eff that. If BC could play Sacred Heart, Holy Cross, Maine, and Brown for the title it wouldn't cheapen it for me in the slightest.

Either in men's hockey where my team has been dominant or women's hockey where they have been the underdog. Doesn't matter.
 
TonyTheTiger20 said:
I want my team to win the title. They have a better chance of winning the title by playing the lowest ranked teams possible.
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It might work that way a bit in men's hockey. In women's, it doesn't seem to matter. The best team seems to win and has to beat quality teams to do so. The quarter opponent might be a bit weaker some years, but after that all the opponents tend to be about the same in terms of potential. Either your team is good enough to win three straight or it isn't. The hockey gods don't do it for you.
 
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ARM said:
It might work that way a bit in men's hockey. In women's, it doesn't seem to matter.
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No, I assure you, if you play opponents that you statistically have a better chance of beating, then you will statistically have a better chance to beat those teams. It's freaking axiomatic.

The hockey gods don't do it for you.
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I never said they did. But math and logic and reason say that if you play a worse team you will be more likely to win that game.

The quarter opponent might be a bit weaker some years, but after that all the opponents tend to be about the same in terms of potential
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You *KNOW* that isn't true. Last year BC had to play Minnesota in the semifinals. BU had to play, what, Cornell?, who was not in the same stratosphere as Minnesota, because no one was in the same stratosphere as Minnesota.

So you're telling me that if BC didn't get a bounce in overtime at Ridder, that BU wouldn't have a had a mathematically improved chance to win the title? Coming DIRECTLY from an improved draw because they wouldn't have had to play Minnesota?

Put another way -- this year, BU has a 100% chance of having to defeat Minnesota to win the title. According to KRACH, BC has an 81% chance of having to defeat Minnesota to win the title. That doesn't give BC a better chance to win because of an improved draw?
 
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