UMD #1, Minnesota St #4, St.Cloud St #8 in pre-season USA college hockey poll

Back-to-back defending NCAA national champion University of Minnesota Duluth is number one with 508 points and 32 first-place votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Pre-season poll. Minnesota State checks in at #4 and St. Cloud State is #8.

The NCHC and Hockey East Association each have four teams ranked, while the Big Ten and ECAC each have three ranked teams. The WCHA has one team ranked in this week’s poll.

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine 2019-20 Men’s College Hockey Poll – Preseason (First-place votes in parentheses)

Rank

School

Final 2018-19 Rank

2018-19 Record

Weeks in Top 151.University of Minnesota Duluth, 508 (32)129-11-212.University of Denver, 446 (2)324-12-513.University of Massachusetts, 371231-10-014.Minnesota State University, 325632-8-215.Cornell University, 2681021-11-416.Providence College, 256424-12-617.Boston College, 231NR14-22-318.St. Cloud State University, 207530-6-319.Penn State University, 201NR22-15-2110.University of Notre Dame, 1771223-14-3111.Quinnipiac University, 169726-10-2112.Clarkson University, 158826-11-2113.Ohio State University, 1551120-11-5114.Northeastern University, 124927-11-1115.Western Michigan University, 121NR21-15-11

Others receiving votes: Wisconsin, 114; Bowling Green, 64; Harvard, 50; North Dakota, 36; Minnesota, 34; Arizona State, 30; Boston University, 20; AIC, 7; Brown, 4; Michigan, 4.

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.