UND Tops Final Hockey Polls

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The recently-crowned national champion University of North Dakota men’s hockey team was ranked No. 1 in the final installments of both national polls released on Monday afternoon.

North Dakota received all 50 first-place votes in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll and all 34 first-place nods in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll, capping off a 34-6-4 season in which the program won its eighth national title and second consecutive National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) regular-season crown.

The Fighting Hawks defeated previously-top-ranked Quinnipiac 5-1 in the championship game on Saturday, displacing the Bobcats atop both polls.

UND was one of four NCHC schools ranked among the top 15 in both polls, joining Denver, St. Cloud State and Minnesota Duluth.

USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll

Rk.      School (1st-place votes)         Record           Pts.         PR

1.         North Dakota (50)                     34-6-4         1000            3

2.         Quinnipiac                                        32-4-7            947            1

3.         Boston College                               28-8-5            865            6

4.         Denver                                           25-10-6            860            7

5.         St. Cloud State                                31-9-1            752            2

6.         Michigan                                          25-8-5            746            5

7.         Massachusetts-Lowell                  25-10-5            677            8

            Providence                                       27-7-4            677            4

9.         Minnesota Duluth                          19-16-5            530          14

10.       Harvard                                          19-11-4            496          10

11.       Yale                                                  19-9-4            486          11

12.       Northeastern                                 22-14-5            478            9

13.       Notre Dame                                   19-11-7            405          13

14.       Boston University                         21-13-5            384          12

15.       Ferris State                                    20-15-6            338          18

16.       Michigan Tech                                  23-6-5            269          15

17.       Minnesota State                            21-13-7            147          16

18.       St. Lawrence                                  19-14-4            122          17

19.       Cornell                                           16-11-7              92          19

20.       RIT                                                  18-15-6              78         NR

Others receiving votes: Minnesota 50, Penn State 36, Dartmouth 26, Omaha 20, Robert Morris 13, Bowling Green 4, Miami 2.

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

Rk.      School (1st-place votes)         Record           Pts.         PR

1.         North Dakota (34)                     34-6-4           510            2

2.         Quinnipiac                                        32-4-7            475            1

3.         Denver                                           25-10-6            428            4

4.         Boston College                               28-8-5            426            3

5.         St. Cloud State                                31-9-1            350            6

6.         Michigan                                          25-8-5            336            5

7.         Providence                                       27-7-4            306            7

8.         Massachusetts-Lowell                  25-10-5            268            8

9.         Harvard                                          19-11-4            186            9

10.       Yale                                                  19-9-4            170          11

11.       Northeastern                                 22-14-5            167          12

12.       Minnesota Duluth                          19-16-5            154          10

13.       Notre Dame                                   19-11-7            126          13

14.       Boston University                         21-13-5            118          15

15.       Ferris State                                    20-15-6              36          14

Others receiving votes: Michigan Tech 2, Cornell 1, RIT 1, St. Lawrence 1.