Hockey ranked #13 in USCHO preseason poll

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

Crickets chirp.

This is actually the lowest Michigan has ever been ranked in a USCHO preseason poll. #11 was the previous low in 2013-14. 

http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/

  1. Boston College
  2. Minnesota-Duluth
  3. Boston University
  4. North Dakota
  5. Denver
  6. Minnesota State
  7. Providence
  8. Harvard
  9. Minnesota
  10. Nebraska-Omaha
  11. Miami University
  12. Yale
  13. Michigan
  14. Massachusetts-Lowell
  15. Michigan Tech
  16. Bowling Green
  17. St. Cloud State
  18. Quinnipiac
  19. St. Lawrence
  20. Colgate

Receiving votes: Robert Morris 63, Notre Dame 45, Rochester Institute of Technology 39, Michigan State 37, Northeastern 31, Vermont 23, Penn State 19, New Hampshire 18, Ferris State 11, Wisconsin 5, Bemidji State 4, Union 3, Alaska 1, Brown 1, Dartmouth 1. 

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Wolverine In Exile

September 28th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^

You could swap us and Minnesota and I wouldn't have a problem. Either one will be champ of the B1G, we'll have 1-2 bids in the tourney barring a cinderella run, and neither will be better than a lower 2, high 3 seed. Got a huge chance to set a tone for the season with the early road series against BU.

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Wolverine Devotee

September 28th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^

#13 in the PWR is a low 3 seed. 

The team's ceiling is a national championship.

Their floor is not making the tournament *again*.

That's how it is when you have talent like this with no stability in terms of their play.

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gwkrlghl

September 28th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^

Michigan's ceiling has been national championship every year since the early 90's. The combo of one-and-done tournaments and under-utilized talent is why we've only won it all twice in those 25 years.

I expect us to miss the tournament again frankly

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Wolverine Devotee

September 28th, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^

Same until proven otherwise. 

It's not even national championships, though. We've been to exactly two Frozen Fours in the last 10 years.

And that horrific non-conference schedule.......drop one of those games to an AHA tomato can, and you're pretty much swimming upstream.

 

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gwkrlghl

September 28th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^

If Mel wanted to be at Tech so bad, why did he stay in Ann Arbor for over 20 years? Think it didn't occur to Tech that he was a viable candidate? Or did Mel probably tell them 'thanks, but no thanks' for a long time? It's obvious they liked it down here

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RITWolverine

September 28th, 2015 at 4:04 PM ^

Glad to see RIT and Robert Morris just outside the preseason Top 20. That's pretty strong love for college hockey's red-headed stepchild, Atlantic Hockey. I'm surprised Minnesota State is ranked so high after being exposed in last year's NCAA tournament.

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RITWolverine

September 28th, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^

I think you're absolutely right about fans not knowing where the teams are from (Pittsburgh; Niagara County, NY and Erie, PA). I also think that Atlantic Hockey is slowly improving as a conference each year. As for Robert Morris - if they can play on the level they did last year, it's absoutely a trap series for Michigan.

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