Fresh off a trip from last season’s national championship game, Harvard has been selected the team to beat in the 2015-16 regular season, according to voting by the ECAC Hockey women’s coaches as part of the preseason poll.
Harvard received eight first-place votes and marks the second time since 2008 the Crimson has been tabbed with the distinction by the coaches.
| Team (First-place votes) | Points |
|---|---|
| Harvard (8) | 118 |
| Clarkson (3) | 113 |
| Quinnipiac | 94 |
| Cornell (1) | 87 |
| St. Lawrence | 81 |
| Princeton | 76 |
| Dartmouth | 62 |
| Yale | 55 |
| Colgate | 40 |
| Rensselaer | 33 |
| Union | 19 |
| Brown | 14 |