{"id":25451,"date":"2003-01-27T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2003\/01\/27\/idle-harvard-unanimous-no-1\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:22","slug":"idle-harvard-unanimous-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2003\/01\/27\/idle-harvard-unanimous-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Harvard Unanimous No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
With a limited slate of games for top-rated teams, Harvard maintained its grip on No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll<\/a> despite not having played a game for two weeks. Harvard gets underway again this Tuesday, playing cross-town foe Boston College. Harvard will face the top teams from the CHA this weekend, Niagara on Friday and No. 9 Mercyhurst on Saturday. The Crimson are also first in the PairWise Rankings (PWR)<\/a> which mimics the NCAA selection process for postseason play.<\/p>\n Minnesota-Duluth finished at No. 2, and was the only team in the top three to see action this weekend. The Bulldogs downed MSU-Mankato in convincing fashion, 6-1 and 8-1, and sit alone at the top of the WCHA.<\/p>\n In all, eight of the ten teams in the poll finished in the same spot as last week. The only difference was a swapping between No. 6 St. Lawrence and No. 7 Wisconsin. The Saints beat up on conference opponent Cornell to a 8-1 tune twice, while the Badgers only managed a tie in a pair of games with No. 5 New Hampshire.<\/p>\n All ten teams see action next week. The top teams in Hockey East, No. 5 New Hampshire and No. 10 Providence, play a decisive two game set on Saturday and Sunday. No. 9 Mercyhurst and No. 1 Harvard mix it up on Sunday, while UMD hosts dangerous Ohio State for two games. When No. 3 Minnesota travels to Bemidji State for two games, watch for an extra session, as four of the last six games between these two teams have gone to overtime. No. 4 Dartmouth plays host to Yale and No. 8 Princeton this weekend.<\/p>\n The PWR and the poll feature the same ten teams, although in slightly different order. While six teams hold the same place in each, the differences are New Hampshire (No. 5 in the poll, No. 4 in the PWR), Dartmouth (4, 5), Wisconsin (7, 6) and St. Lawrence (6, 7).<\/p>\n The USCHO.com Poll is compiled by U.S. College Hockey Online, and consists of 15 voters, including 11 coaches of Division I programs and four women’s hockey writers.<\/p>\n The Pairwise Ranking attempts to mimic the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee to determine participants for the NCAA Division I women’s hockey tournament. The PWR compares only those at or above .500, judging them by five criteria: record against common opponents, record in last 16 games, head to head competition, record against other teams at or above .500, and the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).<\/p>\n The PWR can be reformatted and redistributed by any media outlet or person, provided USCHO’s URL (http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/) accompanies the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a limited slate of games for top-rated teams, Harvard maintained its grip on No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll despite not having played a game for two weeks. Harvard gets underway again this Tuesday, playing cross-town foe Boston College. Harvard will face the top teams from the CHA this weekend, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n