Minnesota Duluth Up To No. 2, Minnesota Remains Atop USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll
This Week's Top-10 Match-Up
Friday, February 11
No. 3 Dartmouth @ No. 6 St. Lawrence
The Golden Gophers have now remained the top team in the nation for 17 consecutive weeks and added a pair of wins over St. Cloud State University to extend their winning steak to 11 games.
Harvard University made a move up to No. 5 after a 6-3 win over No. 3 Dartmouth on Saturday (Feb. 5) in Hanover, N.H.
NOTES: Minnesota's streak of 17 straight weeks at No. 1 is second only to Dartmouth's streak of 21 weeks in 2000-01 ... Four of the top-10 teams are members of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League, while Nos. 1, 2 and 4 hail from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
ABOUT THE POLL: The eighth annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll is conducted each week in conjunction with the American Hockey Coaches Association. The poll includes input from coaches and journalists representing each of the six NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the American Hockey Coaches Association and USA Hockey Magazine, the official publication of USA Hockey.
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
Women's College Hockey Poll - #17 (first-place votes in parentheses)
| Team | Last Ranking | Record | Weeks In Top 10 |
| 1. University of Minnesota, 190 (19) | 1 | 25-1-2 | 17 |
| 2. University of Minnesota Duluth, 162 | 3 | 22-2-2 | 17 |
| 3. Dartmouth College, 155 | 2 | 20-2-0 | 17 |
| 4. University of Wisconsin, 136 | 4 | 20-7-1 | 17 |
| 5. Harvard University, 111 | 6 | 13-6-2 | 17 |
| 6. St. Lawrence University, 100 | 5 | 21-4-3 | 17 |
| 7. Mercyhurst College, 66 | 7 | 18-6-2 | 15 |
| 8. University of New Hampshire, 64 | 8 | 17-5-4 | 17 |
| 9. Princeton University, 36 | 9 | 12-6-4 | 13 |
| 10. Providence College, 24 | 10 | 15-7-4 | 9 |
Others receiving votes: The Ohio State University, 1.
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