The Tigers moved to 13th in the USA Today poll to solidify a #13 ranking in the two major polls. Nothing glamourous about 13th BUT anything is better than being unranked. North Dakota is ranked 7th and 8th and holds the #2 spot in the WCHA.

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

Feb. 23, 2009

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Notre Dame (18)	494	2
2.	Boston University (16)	492	1
3.	Michigan	415	3
4.	Northeastern	409	5
5.	Denver	385	8
6.	Princeton	298	10
7.	North Dakota	291	9
8.	Vermont	256	6
9.	Miami	250	4
10.	New Hampshire	188	12
11.	Cornell	171	11
12.	Yale	171	7
13.	Colorado College	87	NR
14.	Minnesota Duluth	77	NR
15.	Ohio State	38	15

Also receiving votes: St. Lawrence 25, Minnesota 13, Air Force 8, RIT 2, St. Cloud State 2, Wisconsin 2.

USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll

Feb. 16, 2009

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Boston University (31)	981	1
2.	Notre Dame (19)	968	2
3.	Michigan	863	3
4.	Northeastern	850	4
5.	Denver	790	8
6.	Princeton	673	10
7.	Miami	666	5
8.	North Dakota	637	9
9.	Vermont	635	6
10.	Cornell	540	11
11.	Yale	532	7
12.	New Hampshire	513	12
13.	Colorado College	352	18
14.	Minnesota Duluth	336	15
15.	Ohio State	281	16
16.	Wisconsin	227	13
17.	St. Lawrence	191	20
18.	Minnesota	145	14
19.	St. Cloud State	122	19
20.	UMass Lowell	62	NR

Also receiving votes: Air Force 50, Boston College 41, Alaska 22, RIT 16, Dartmouth 7.

The Tigers remained 18th in the USCHO poll this week as they get ready to take on the Gophers in the Springs this weekend. Hope you enjoy the pics from Sunday night that Missy took against the U18 team-pretty sweet!

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

The 14th 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 American Hockey Coaches Association and USA Hockey Magazine, the official publication of USA Hockey.

Feb. 16, 2009

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Boston University (31)	507	1
2.	Notre Dame (3)	473	3
3.	Michigan	448	4
4.	Miami	391	6
5.	Northeastern	369	2
6.	Vermont	331	5
7.	Yale	296	10
8.	Denver	285	8
9.	North Dakota	235	11
10.	Princeton	205	9
11.	Cornell	151	7
12.	New Hampshire	133	12
13.	Wisconsin	109	13
14.	Minnesota	85	14
15.	Ohio State	21	NR

Also receiving votes: Minnesota Duluth 16, Colorado College 12, Boston College 7, RIT 3, St. Lawrence 3.

USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll

Feb. 16, 2009

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Boston University (44)	993	1
2.	Notre Dame (6)	945	2
3.	Michigan	905	4
4.	Northeastern	815	3
5.	Miami	783	7
6.	Vermont	731	5
7.	Yale	677	10
8.	Denver	659	8
9.	North Dakota	564	11
10.	Princeton	560	9
11.	Cornell	495	6
12.	New Hampshire	420	12
13.	Wisconsin	404	13
14.	Minnesota	371	14
15.	Minnesota Duluth	256	17
16.	Ohio State	211	16
17.	Boston College	177	15
18.	Colorado College	167	18
19.	St. Cloud State	101	NR
20.	St. Lawrence	92	NR

Also receiving votes: Dartmouth 91, UMass Lowell 21, RIT 18, Air Force 16, Nebraska-Omaha 12, Alaska 5, Colgate 5, Massachusetts 4, Alaska Anchorage 2.

It's been a busy week so postings are hard to come by but I'll have 2 for today. Below is a great article from the Gazette about the Tigers struggles with not being able to string together consecutive quality games. Right now they are playing .500 hockey which isn't good come post-season time, yet they are still just out of first place in the WCHA so it will be a great finish. As far as the polls, the Tigers dropped to 13 in the USA Today poll. Full polls for the week are below the article. One poll ranking (or unranking) of note is Air Force, who went from 15 to gone-zo this week after getting whooped up on by Canisius. Have a great week!
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Tigers are tired of taking the bad with all the good
FRANK SCHWAB-THE GAZETTE

Saturday's win over Wisconsin was big for Colorado College. So were wins at Alaska-Anchorage and Minnesota and against Minnesota State-Mankato and North Dakota, but CC couldn't follow any of them with another victory.

The Tigers know that the come-from-behind 4-3 victory at Wisconsin won't mean as much if they don't play well this weekend against St. Cloud State.

"It would be huge if we could keep it going," said junior right wing Mike Testwuide, who scored his first goal of the season Saturday. "We usually get a good game and then a bad game, and we need to keep this going."

For as inconsistent as the Tigers have been this season - they haven't swept a series since Oct. 17-18 - they are still in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association race. CC is three points out of first place, even though it is tied for fourth with North Dakota and has played two more games than some of the top teams. With back-to-back series against eighth-place St. Cloud and last-place Michigan Tech, the Tigers could make up some ground.

CC dropped in the polls, despite Saturday's win. The Tigers are 13th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, down from 11th last week. Air Force, which was swept over the weekend after being No. 15, was not ranked. The U.S. College Hockey Online PairWise rankings, which mimics the NCAA selection committee's numbers, had CC tied for 19th. The Tigers were 18th last week.

That's fine with the Tigers, because coach Scott Owens was hopeful they have taken a step in the right direction.

"Everybody competed and played hard, a lot of guys contributed," Owens said of Saturday's win.

Still, there's no way to tell with this season's team. Owens said he wanted to see a good week of practice, but didn't know how to ensure the Tigers would keep playing like they did Saturday.

"That's the million-dollar question," Owens said. "But you'd like to think this would be a momentum changer for us."

Owens might have gotten his team's attention with some lineup moves Saturday night.

He benched alternate captain Scott McCulloch and freshman defenseman Gabe Guentzel after Friday's 6-1 loss. He said each player will probably be back in the lineup this weekend but wanted to see how they practiced this week.

CC hasn't always played with great passion this season, but played hard after falling behind 2-0 Saturday.

"I do think it helped us," Owens said of the lineup changes. "I think it was an attention getter, some guys played different positions and stepped up."

CC got out of the series at Wisconsin pretty healthy. Owens said there were no new noteworthy injuries. Backup goaltender Drew O'Connell has a sore shoulder and could miss a day or two of practice, but should be available this weekend.
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POLLS
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

The 14th 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 American Hockey Coaches Association and USA Hockey Magazine, the official publication of USA Hockey.

Jan. 19, 2008

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Notre Dame (22)	496	1
2.	Boston University (6)	464	2
3.	Cornell (6)	434	5
4.	Denver	394	4
5.	Northeastern	386	3
6.	Minnesota	336	8
7.	Vermont	204	7
8.	Michigan	280	6
9.	Princeton	222	14
10.	Miami	188	9
11.	Ohio State	156	14
12.	New Hampshire	154	13
13.	Colorado College	132	11
14.	Boston College	46	12
15.	North Dakota	45	NR

Also receiving votes: Wisconsin 17, Alaska 9 Nebraska-Omaha 9, Air Force 2, Michigan State 2, Quinnipiac 2, Yale 2.

USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll

Jan. 19, 2008

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Notre Dame (38)	986	1
2.	Boston University (7)	931	2
3.	Cornell (5)	877	5
4.	Denver	828	4
5.	Northeastern	821	3
6.	Minnesota	753	7
7.	Vermont	673	8
8.	Michigan	637	6
9.	Princeton	562	10
10.	Miami	507	9
11.	New Hampshire	468	13
12.	Ohio State	467	14
13.	Colorado College	427	11
14.	Boston College	320	12
15.	North Dakota	316	17
16.	Wisconsin	280	17
17.	Minnesota Duluth	123	NR
18.	Dartmouth	117	18
19.	Alaska	100	NR
20.	Air Force	94	15

Also receiving votes: Nebraska-Omaha 67, Yale 39, Minnesota State 26, Quinnipiac 26, RIT 16, Maine 13, Union 7, Michigan State 6, St. Lawrence 5, St. Cloud State 4, Massachusetts 3, Niagara 1.

Here are the latest polls for this week. The Tigers moved up one in the USA Today Poll to #11, down to 11 in the USCHO poll. Odd, I know. The biggest rankings to keep an eye on are the PairWise Rankings, which will be out later this week.
Another big thanks to Missy J who sent me some sweet pics from the weekend once again!

As you can obviously tell, I still can't find where the purple and blue leftover code pieces are in the layout, so you are still stuck squinting at that purple/blue on black. It's driving me crazy, I'm just tempted to send the code to someone to clean it out, any takes?! haha
Also you've probably noticed that the music is back after a 6 month absence. The reason it left was so it was easier to watch the intro video. I decided to bring it back and have had great feedback so it will rock on!
Another big thanks to Missy J for submitting some freaking sweet pics from this past weekend once again. If you haven't already, check out the sideshow a couple posts down.
The polls are below for your leisure, the Tigers didn't move so it's not too exciting!

USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

The 14th 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 American Hockey Coaches Association and USA Hockey Magazine, the official publication of USA Hockey.

Dec. 15, 2008

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Notre Dame (30)	506	1
2.	Miami (4)	470	3
3.	Boston University	422	4
4.	Minnesota	409	2
5.	Denver	383	5
6.	Northeastern	337	6
7.	Boston College	298	8
8.	Princeton	274	7
9.	Cornell	226	9
10.	Colorado College	214	10
11.	Michigan	148	12
12.	Air Force	126	13
13.	Vermont	116	11
14.	New Hampshire	55	15
15.	Nebraska-Omaha	33	NR

Also receiving votes: Wisconsin 25, Maine 9, Alaska 6, Minnesota State 6, Ohio State 6, North Dakota 5, St. Cloud State 5, Dartmouth 1.

USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll

Dec. 15, 2008

No.	Team (First-place votes)	Points	Last Poll
1.	Notre Dame (41)	981	1
2.	Miami (6)	921	3
3.	Boston University	867	4
4.	Minnesota (1)	854	2
5.	Denver	804	6
6.	Northeastern	755	5
7.	Boston College	675	7
8.	Princeton (2)	666	8
9.	Colorado College	585	9
10.	Cornell	559	10
11.	Air Force	479	12
12.	Michigan	439	13
13.	Vermont	426	11
14.	Wisconsin	263	16
15.	New Hampshire	257	15
16.	Nebraska-Omaha	175	19
17.	Minnesota State	168	14
T18.	Alaska	104	20
T18.	North Dakota	104	NR
20.	Dartmouth	103	18

Also receiving votes: Minnesota Duluth 87, Maine 62, Ohio State 61, St. Cloud State 59, Bemidji State 11, Massachusetts 11, Alaska Anchorage 10, Yale 7, UMass Lowell 4, Niagara 2, Quinnipiac 1.