{"id":25500,"date":"2003-02-10T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2003\/02\/10\/crimson-unanimous-pick-in-womens-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:23","slug":"crimson-unanimous-pick-in-womens-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2003\/02\/10\/crimson-unanimous-pick-in-womens-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Unanimous Pick In Women’s Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the biggest game remaining in its regular season, No. 1 Harvard snapped a 1-1 tie with a 5 on 3 goal midway through the first period and held on for the 2-1 win over No. 4 Dartmouth. With the win, Harvard kept it’s No. 1 ranking in both the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll<\/a> as well as the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings<\/a>, a barometer for NCAA tournament selection.<\/p>\n No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth won a pair of games against host St. Cloud, and No. 3 Minnesota squeaked by visiting Ohio State, setting the stage for a classic battle for WCHA supremecy between these two heated rivals. The Bulldogs lead Minnesota in the conference standings by two points, with the final regular-season match-up between the two teams happening this weekend in Duluth.<\/p>\n After losing the close game with Harvard, Dartmouth bounced back with a 3-0 blanking of Brown, putting Big Green netminder Amy Ferguson all alone at No. 2 in career shutouts for a Dartmouth goaltender. The Big Green stand at No. 4 in both the poll and the PWR.<\/p>\n All ten ranked teams will see action in the coming week. Besides the WCHA bout between Minnesota-Duluth and Minnesota, No. 1 Harvard battles with No. 6 St. Lawrence for a pair of ECAC contests. Non-conference games are the rule in Hockey East, as No. 5 New Hampshire plays Niagara, and No. 9 Providence plays a home-and-home series with Quinnipiac.<\/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":" In the biggest game remaining in its regular season, No. 1 Harvard snapped a 1-1 tie with a 5 on 3 goal midway through the first period and held on for the 2-1 win over No. 4 Dartmouth. With the win, Harvard kept it’s No. 1 ranking in both the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll […]<\/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