University of Minnesota Duluth Holds No. 1 Spot in Week Two of USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Poll

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
2019-20 Men’s College Hockey Poll – Week #2

(First-place votes in parentheses)
Rank School Last Week’s Rank 2019-20 Record Weeks in Top 15
1.University of Minnesota Duluth, 495 (33) 1 0-0-0 2
2.University of Denver, 448 2 2-0-0 2
3.Minnesota State University, 358 4 0-0-0 2
4.Cornell University, 327 5 0-0-0 2
5.University of Massachusetts, 318 3 0-0-0 2
6.Boston College, 283 7 0-0-0 2
7.Providence College, 253 6 1-0-0 2
8.St. Cloud State University, 218 8 0-0-0 2
9.University of Notre Dame, 216 10 0-0-0 2
10.Penn State University, 204 9 0-0-0 2
11.Clarkson University, 180 12 0-0-0 2
12.Western Michigan University, 134 15 0-0-0 2
13.Quinnipiac University, 128 11 0-0-0 2
14.Ohio State University, 121 13 0-0-0 2
15.University of Wisconsin, 96 NR 0-0-0 1

Others receiving votes: Northeastern, 67; Bowling Green, 31; Harvard, 22; Minnesota, 18; North Dakota, 12; Boston University, 12; UMass Lowell, 10; Arizona State, 4; Brown, 4; American International, 2.

Notes: University of Minnesota Duluth maintains the top spot for the second consecutive week with 495 points and 33 first-place votes…The Big Ten and the NCHC each have four teams ranked, while the Hockey East Association and ECAC each have three ranked teams. The WCHA has one team ranked in this week’s poll.

About the Poll: The 25th annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Poll is conducted each week in conjunction with the American Hockey Coaches Association. The poll includes input from coaches and journalists representing each of the six NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the AHCA and USA Hockey.