Minnesota Attains No. 1 National Ranking

Five WCHA Teams Ranked Among Nation's Top 10; St. Cloud State 2nd, Denver 3rd, North Dakota 5th and Colorado College 7th.

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Oct. 30, 2001

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MADISON, Wisc - The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, on the strength of a 8-0, 9-0 home-ice sweep over Colgate last weekend, are the nation's No. 1-ranked Division I men's college hockey team in both weekly polls released Monday (Oct. 29). Coach Don Lucia's team garnered 18 of 19 first place votes in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll and 31 of 40 first place votes in the USCHO.com Men's Poll.

Celebrating it's 50th anniversary season in 2001-02 and home to 31 national championship teams since 1951, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association has five teams ranked among the nation's top 10 for the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 4. Unbeaten St. Cloud State (6-0-0) is second in both polls, undefeated Denver (4-0-0) is third in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine poll and fourth in the USCHO.com poll, defending MacNaughton Cup-champion North Dakota is 5th (USCHO.com) and 7th (USA Today/American Hockey Magazine), and Colorado College (2-2-0) is 7th (USCHO.com) and 8th (USA Today/American Hockey Magazine).

Four other WCHA teams - Wisconsin, Minnesota-Duluth, Michigan Tech and Minnesota State- Mankato - received votes and nine of the 10 WCHA-member teams were mentioned in the polls.