{"id":31706,"date":"2010-09-22T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2010\/09\/22\/minnesotaduluth-favored-to-win-womens-wcha\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:04:10","slug":"minnesotaduluth-favored-to-win-womens-wcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2010\/09\/22\/minnesotaduluth-favored-to-win-womens-wcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota-Duluth Favored to Win Women’s WCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth is the pick of WCHA coaches to win the women’s league title in 2010-11.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs, who tied Minnesota for last year’s regular-season title, claimed six of eight first-place votes from the coaches, who could not vote for their own team.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin got the other two first-place votes and came in second in the poll, followed by Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The full poll follows:<\/p>\n
Team (first-place votes) Points<\/b>
1. Minnesota-Duluth (6) 48
2. Wisconsin (2) 43
3. Minnesota 37
4. Ohio State 30
5. North Dakota 27
6. Bemidji State 17
7. St. Cloud State 13
8. Minnesota State 9<\/pre>\nWisconsin forward Hilary Knight, returning from a year off to play with the U.S. women’s Olympic team, was the pick of seven of eight coaches as preseason player of the year.<\/p>\n
Minnesota forward Amanda Kessel got six of the eight votes for the league’s preseason rookie of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth is the pick of WCHA coaches to win the women’s league title in 2010-11. The Bulldogs, who tied Minnesota for last year’s regular-season title, claimed six of eight first-place votes from the coaches, who could not vote for their own team. Wisconsin got the other two first-place votes and came in […]<\/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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