Boston College Athletics
Men's Hockey Earns Preseason No. 1 National Ranking
September 27, 2010 | Men's Hockey
Sept. 27, 2010
Boston College men's hockey, the 2010 NCAA champion, has earned the nation's No. 1 preseason ranking according to the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll released on Monday.
The Eagles collected 504 points and 28 (of 34) first-place votes to finish atop the poll.
North Dakota, which totaled 462 points and four first-place votes, earned the No. 2 spot, while Miami, Michigan and Yale rounded out the top five in the preseason poll.
BC enters the 2010-11 campaign having captured the last year's national title - its fourth national championship in program history. Last winter also marked program's third national championship under head coach Jerry York.
York and the Eagles return 17 lettermen from last year's 29-win club. The team's preseason begins on Sunday, Oct. 3 with an exhibition contest against the University of Toronto at 4 p.m.
Boston College will open the season on the road - at Northeastern on Oct. 9. It will then travel to Denver, last winter's Western College Hockey Association regular-season champion, for two games - on Oct. 15 & 16 - and visit South Bend, Ind., to face Notre Dame on Oct. 23 before it returns to Conte Forum/Kelley Rink on Oct. 29.
The Oct. 29 home contest against Merrimack will mark the team's home-opening game. BC will raise its national-championship banner that same night as a final salute to last year's title team.
Others receiving votes: University of Notre Dame, 43; Rochester Institute of Technology, 38; Bemidji State University, 36; Ferris State University, 36; Union College, 34; University of Vermont, 28; Northern Michigan University, 18; Michigan State University, 21; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 16; Colorado College, 14; Northeastern University, 14; University of Nebraska at Omaha, 3; Merrimack College, 2.USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll - #1 (Preseason) (first-place votes in parentheses)
Rank School 2009-10 Final Rank 2009-10 Record 1 Boston College, 504 (28) 1 29-10-3 2 University of North Dakota, 462 (4) 7 25-13-5 3 Miami University, 437 (2) 3 29-8-7 4 University of Michigan, 383 8 26-18-1 5 Yale University, 334 6 21-10-3 6 St. Cloud State University, 308 5 24-14-5 7 University of Maine, 281 NR 19-17-3 8 University of New Hampshire, 206 11 18-14-7 9 University of Minnesota Duluth, 195 NR 22-17-1 10 Cornell University, 162 9 21-9-4 11 University of Denver, 146 4 27-10-4 12 University of Alaska, 125 15 18-12-9 13 University of Wisconsin, 115 2 28-11-14 14 Boston University, 69 NR 18-17-3 15 University of Minnesota, 50 NR 18-19-2
