Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Retains No. 9 Spot In USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Polls For The Second Straight Week
12/17/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
The Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team was ranked ninth, for the second consecutive week, in the USCHO.com Division I Poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll. The Bobcats previously broke the Top 10 in each poll on Dec.10, and have not played since Dec. 8.
Quinnipiac will return to action on Dec. 29-30 when it hosts Nebraska-Omaha with the first two games of a seven-game homestand. The following weekend, Quinnipiac will host Dartmouth on Friday, Jan. 4 and Harvard on Jan. 5, with both games live on New England Sports Network (NESN). Quinnipiac hosts RPI and Union on Dec. 11-12, respectively, followed by an in-state match-up between the Bobcats and Connecticut on Tuesday, Jan 22. That game will be available live on WCCT, where available.
| USCHO.COM Division I Poll (Dec. 17, 2012) | |||||
| Team | (First Place Votes) | Record | Points | Last Poll | |
| 1 | Boston College | (44) | 11- 2-1 | 993 | 1 |
| 2 | New Hampshire | ( 4) | 11- 2-2 | 938 | 2 |
| 3 | Notre Dame | ( 2) | 14- 4-0 | 911 | 3 |
| 4 | Minnesota | 11- 3-3 | 816 | 4 | |
| 5 | Miami | 11- 3-4 | 768 | 5 | |
| 6 | Boston University | 10- 5-0 | 737 | 6 | |
| 7 | North Dakota | 10- 5-3 | 675 | 8 | |
| 8 | Western Michigan | 11- 4-1 | 648 | 7 | |
| 9 | QUINNIPIAC | 12- 3-2 | 603 | 9 | |
| 10 | Dartmouth | 7- 2-2 | 525 | 10 | |
| 11 | Cornell | 6- 3-2 | 441 | 12 | |
| 12 | Nebraska-Omaha | 11- 6-1 | 395 | 13 | |
| 13 | Union | 8- 3-4 | 391 | 14 | |
| 14 | Denver | 9- 6-3 | 343 | 11 | |
| 15 | Yale | 7- 3-2 | 321 | 15 | |
| 16 | St. Cloud State | 11- 7-0 | 296 | 17 | |
| 17 | Niagara | 10- 2-4 | 248 | 16 | |
| 18 | Minnesota State | 10- 6-2 | 204 | 20 | |
| 19 | Ferris State | 7- 7-3 | 50 | 19 | |
| 20 | Colgate | 9- 7-2 | 47 | NR | |
| 20 | Harvard | 4- 4-1 | 47 | 18 | |
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Others receiving votes: Providence 43, Holy Cross 16, Robert Morris 15, Ohio State 14, Colorado College7, Lake Superior 4, Massachusetts-Lowell 2, Michigan 2.
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| USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll (Dec. 17, 2012) | |||||
| Team | Points | (First Place Votes) | Last Poll | Record | |
| 1 | Boston College | 503 | (28) | 1 | 11-2-1 |
| 2 | University of New Hampshire | 473 | (5) | 2 | 11-2-2 |
| 3 | University of Notre Dame | 443 | (1) | 3 | 14-4-0 |
| 4 | University of Minnesota | 392 | 4 | 11-3-3 | |
| 5 | Miami University | 366 | 5 | 11-3-4 | |
| 6 | Boston University | 339 | 6 | 10-5-0 | |
| 7 | Western Michigan University | 285 | 7 | 11-4-1 | |
| 8 | University of North Dakota | 284 | 8 | 10-5-3 | |
| 9 | QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | 247 | 9 | 12-3-2 | |
| 10 | Dartmouth College | 198 | 11 | 7-2-2 | |
| 11 | Cornell University | 148 | 12 | 6-3-2 | |
| 12 | Union College | 107 | 13 | 8-3-4 | |
| 13 | University of Nebraska-Omaha | 90 | 14 | 11-6-1 | |
| 14 | Yale University | 67 | 15 | 7-3-2 | |
| 15 | University of Denver | 62 | 10 | 9-6-3 | |
| Others receiving votes: St. Cloud State University 48, Niagara University 15, Minnesota State University 10, Providence College 3. | |||||
