USCHO.com Division III men’s poll<\/a>, again receiving 14 first-place votes and one fifth-place vote. The Green Knights downed Lake Forest to advance to the NCHA championship game next Saturday.<\/p>\nStaying at No. 2, and receiving the other first-place vote, is St. John’s. The Johnnies, idle last weekend, are the top seed in this week’s MIAC playoffs. Maintaining the third position is Trinity; the Bantams beat Tufts, 9-2, in the NESCAC quarterfinals, and will host that league’s championship series this coming weekend.<\/p>\n
At No. 4 again this week is Wisconsin-Superior, which advanced to the NCHA championship game with a win over Wisconsin-River Falls. Up two places to No. 5 is Middlebury, after a 3-0 NESCAC quarterfinal win over Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Dropping just one spot after a win over Lebanon Valley and a 5-1 home loss to Utica is No. 6 Manhattanville. Moving up one position to No. 7 is Norwich, which rolled up a 16-0 win over Castleton State in the ECAC East first round.<\/p>\n
Moving up two spots to No. 8 is ECAC West regular season champion Utica, which won the right to host its league playoffs with the win over Manhattanville. Staying put at No. 9 is Babson, after an 8-0 win over Mass.-Boston in an ECAC East quarterfinal.<\/p>\n
Up two positions to tenth is St. Thomas; the MIAC second-seeded Tommies beat Concordia twice last weekend to finish the regular season. Geneseo, which hosts the SUNYAC finals this coming weekend, moved up two spots to No. 11 after a tie and a win over Fredonia in that league’s semifinal round.<\/p>\n
Oswego plummetted from sixth to 12th after the SUNYAC’s top seed lost two games at home to Plattsburgh. Up one position from No. 14 is Bowdoin, after a 6-4 win against Amherst in the NESCAC quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n
At No. 14, down three spots, is Wisconsin-River Falls, while entering the poll after several weeks away is Plattsburgh, after the Cardinals advanced to the SUNYAC finals with the pair of wins at Oswego.<\/p>\n
Bounced from the poll is Fredonia; after a loss and tie at Geneseo, the Blue Devils received just one 15th-place vote.<\/p>\n
Also receiving votes were Curry, Colby, Hobart, Bethel, Fredonia, MCHA champion Milwaukee School of Engineering, and RIT.<\/p>\n
The USCHO.com Poll is compiled by U.S. College Hockey Online, and consists of 15 voters, including coaches and beat writers from across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Norbert kept its perch at No. 1 for a fourth straight time in this week’s USCHO.com Division III men’s poll, again receiving 14 first-place votes and one fifth-place vote. The Green Knights downed Lake Forest to advance to the NCHA championship game next Saturday. Staying at No. 2, and receiving the other first-place vote, […]<\/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
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