There’s a brand new No. 1 within the Division I Nationwide Discipline Hockey Coaches ballot following one week of notable school video games.
Northwestern has reclaimed the highest spot, and North Caroline strikes down one to No. 2. The Wildcats are 15-0 on the season after seven weeks of faculty area hockey motion.
By means of 15 video games, Northwestern has allowed eight objectives, and has scored 57 objectives. They’re scoring a mean of three.80 objectives per sport. North Carolina is scoring a mean of 4 objectives per sport.
In the course of the history-making week, the Ohio State got here from behind to defeat Maryland in a down-to-wire sport for the primary time in program historical past. The ultimate rating was 2-1 with the Buckeyes scoring two fourth-quarter objectives for the dub.
Rutgers then handed OSU its second lack of the season two days later, which is unsurprising within the Huge Ten Convention.
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Ohio State SCORES with 29 seconds left to play!!#GoBucks pic.twitter.com/mNKSbvAvyK
— Ohio State Discipline Hockey (@OhioStateFH) October 18, 2024
St. Joe’s continues to additionally climb transferring up one spot to No. 5. The 2 losses on their 2024 schedule have been to Atlantic-10 rival the College of Massachusetts at Amherst and to its Huge East opponent the College of Connecticut.
And, not listed as a ranked crew, however must be recommended, is Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina, which beat Ball State, for its first-ever NCAA Division I contest.
Of observe, Queens is transitioning from NCAA Division II and can look to efficiently full the reclassification course of in the course of the 2025-26 season to grow to be a full Division I member in 2026-27, in accordance with the college’s athletic division.
Based on the NFHCA, “the Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Ballot is a composite rating of the highest 20 groups with a .500 or higher file within the nation every week. Every Division I crew with an NFHCA member coach is permitted one vote for the rating every week.
“Polls are introduced each Tuesday in the course of the area hockey enjoying season.
The Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Nationwide Coaches Ballot is voted on by NFHCA member coaches and has no bearing on choice to the NCAA Division I Discipline Hockey Championship.”
The next groups acquired essentially the most votes forged by NFHCA members. The record is the rank, crew title, file, and final place held within the prior ballot.
Bolded groups have moved place greater or decrease from week-to-week.
20. Drexel, 11-4, (Not ranked)
19. Temple, 9-5, (20)
18. Liberty, 9-5, (19)
17. Penn State, 8-7, (16)
16. Iowa, 8-6, (17)
15. UMass-Amherst, 12-4, (14)
14. UAlbany, 12-3, (13)
13. Princeton, 9-4, (15)
12. Syracuse, 10-4, (12)
11. Harvard, 10-3, (10)
10. Duke, 10-4, (11)
9. Boston School, 11-3, (9)
8. UConn, 13-2, (5)
7. Michigan, 11-2, (7)
6. Maryland, 10-4, (8)
5. St. Joe’s, 13-2, (6)
4. Virginia, 12-2, (4)
3. The Ohio State, 12-2, (3)
2. North Carolina, 12-0, (1)
1. Northwestern, 15-0, (2)
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