{"id":24827,"date":"2002-10-14T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/10\/14\/rit-elmira-top-picks-in-ecac-west\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:30","slug":"rit-elmira-top-picks-in-ecac-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2002\/10\/14\/rit-elmira-top-picks-in-ecac-west\/","title":{"rendered":"RIT, Elmira Top Picks in ECAC West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending ECAC West tournament champion, RIT, is the coaches&#8217; preseason choice to claim the regular-season men&#8217;s title based upon results of the 2002-03 preseason poll. Meanwhile, Elmira, the 2002 NCAA Division III National Champion, was picked as the preseason favorite in the ECAC West women&#8217;s conference.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches could not vote for their own team.<\/p>\n<p>RIT, which posted a 23-2-2 overall and a 9-1 conference record a year ago, amassed 25 points to top the six-team men&#8217;s poll. A 2002 NCAA Division III championship participant, coach Wayne Wilson&#8217;s squad garnered five first-place votes.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattanville, which returns 22 varsity players, took the No. 2 slot in the poll. The Valiants went 16-7-3 overall, 5-4-1 within the conference last season, and earned one first-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>Elmira, last year&#8217;s ECAC West Championship tournament runner-up, was voted third. Tim Ceglarski&#8217;s team went 18-9 overall, 8-2 in the conference last season.<\/p>\n<p>Utica (10-12-3, 2-7-1) was fourth, Hobart (10-16-0, 5-5-0) was fifth and Neumann was picked last.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, Elmira, which posted a 26-1-1 overall and 17-1-1 conference record in 2001-02, received 29 points, including four first-place votes to top the seven-team poll. Coach Jamie Wood&#8217;s Soaring Eagles enter the season as the defending regular-season champion as well as the champion of the first ECAC West Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Plattsburgh State was picked second, followed by Utica, Buffalo State, Neumann, Cortland State and Chatham.<\/p>\n<p>Plattsburgh (21-4-2, 16-2-2 last season), which finished second to Elmira in double overtime in the conference tournament a year ago, earned two first-place votes in earning the No. 2 spot.<\/p>\n<p>Chatham, in seventh place, is under guidance of head coach Mike Joseph, beginning its first season in the ECAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending ECAC West tournament champion, RIT, is the coaches&#8217; preseason choice to claim the regular-season men&#8217;s title based upon results of the 2002-03 preseason poll. Meanwhile, Elmira, the 2002 NCAA Division III National Champion, was picked as the preseason favorite in the ECAC West women&#8217;s conference. 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