this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll<\/a>. With a 5-3 victory over No. 6 Brown and a 4-3 win over No. 2 Harvard, Minnesota ascended into the top spot. The Gophers earned 14 of 15 first-place votes.<\/p>\nHarvard delivered an impressive 2-1 win over previously undefeated Minnesota-Duluth on Saturday before falling to the Gophers the next day. The Crimson received the other first-place vote, and finished at No. 2 in the nation.<\/p>\n
The only team to finish at No. 1 previously this season, Minnesota-Duluth, dropped two spots to No. 3 following the 2-1 loss with Harvard and a 1-1 tie with Brown. The Bulldogs out-shot both opponents for the weekend.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss and tie this weekend, Brown moved up one spot to No. 6. The team is now 2-3-1 for the season, having played five of its six games with teams receiving votes in this week’s poll.<\/p>\n
Minnesota will celebrate its new first-place ranking with a trip to St. Lawrence to take on the No. 5 Saints for two games. Also on tap is a Hockey East-ECAC showdown between No. 9 Providence and No. 4 Dartmouth on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The USCHO.com Poll is compiled by U.S. College Hockey Online, and consists of 15 voters, including 11 coaches of Division I programs and four women’s hockey writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a thrilling weekend between top teams, Minnesota emerged with two wins and first-place in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. With a 5-3 victory over No. 6 Brown and a 4-3 win over No. 2 Harvard, Minnesota ascended into the top spot. The Gophers earned 14 of 15 first-place votes. Harvard delivered an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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