UMaine Meets #1 Quinnipiac Tonight
Check out the national poll or check out the national pairwise rankings and you'll find the Quinnipiac hockey team ranked #1. Do the Black Bears have a surprise for them tonight?
Quinnipiac comes to Alfond with a 19-1-3 overall record and a 10-0-2 record in ECAC conference games.
How dominant have the Bobcats been? They began the season 17-0-2. They have outscored their opponents 87-33. They are 6-0 against teams currently in the top-10. They have a Hobey Baker candidate in goalie Michael Garteig (19-1-3, 1.41 GAA).
Meanwhile, the Maine Black Bears are scuffling.at 5-13-5. The Bears lost and tied UConn over the weekend.
The Bears and Bobcats met at Quinnipiac back in October. The Bobcats beat Maine 4-0 while outshooting the Bears 40-20.
USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
January 18, 2016
Team | (First Place Votes) | Record | Points | Last Poll | |
1 | Quinnipiac | (41) | 19- 1-3 | 990 | 2 |
2 | North Dakota | ( 8) | 19- 3-2 | 941 | 1 |
3 | Providence | ( 1) | 15- 3-4 | 889 | 3 |
4 | Boston College | 15- 4-3 | 820 | 4 | |
5 | St. Cloud State | 18- 5-1 | 785 | 5 | |
6 | Michigan | 14- 3-4 | 748 | 6 | |
7 | Nebraska-Omaha | 15- 6-1 | 671 | 9 | |
8 | Massachusetts-Lowell | 14- 4-4 | 611 | 11 | |
9 | Harvard | 9- 4-3 | 603 | 7 | |
10 | Cornell | 11- 3-3 | 528 | 8 | |
11 | Boston University | 11- 7-4 | 496 | 10 | |
12 | Yale | 10- 4-3 | 471 | 12 | |
13 | Notre Dame | 12- 4-7 | 448 | 13 | |
14 | Penn State | 15- 4-3 | 352 | 15 | |
15 | Denver | 10- 7-5 | 335 | 14 | |
16 | Rensselaer | 12- 7-5 | 180 | 20 | |
17 | Michigan Tech | 13- 7-4 | 141 | NR | |
18 | Bowling Green | 13- 7-5 | 140 | 16 | |
19 | Minnesota-Duluth | 8- 8-5 | 110 | 17 | |
20 | Minnesota State | 11- 8-5 | 84 | 19 | |
Others receiving votes: Robert Morris 58, Minnesota 46, Holy Cross 18, St. Lawrence 17, Dartmouth 4, Union 4, Rochester Institute of Technology 1. |