Golden No. 1
Feb. 22, 2005
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The University of Minnesota picked up a pair of home wins versus Minnesota State University Mankato to extend its winning streak to 15 games and remain No. 1 on this week's USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll.
This Week's Top-10 Match-Ups
Friday, February 25
No. 3 Dartmouth @ No. 5 Harvard
Saturday, February 26
No. 1 Minnesota @ No. 2 Minnesota Duluth
Sunday, February 27
No. 1 Minnesota @ No. 2 Minnesota Duluth
No. 1 Minnesota, which has only lost once this season, is unbeaten in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and clinched its second consecutive regular-season championship on Sunday (Feb. 20).
Harvard University, which is unbeaten in its last 13 games, claimed its seventh straight Beanpot title last Tuesday (Feb. 15) with a 6-1 win over Boston College. The Crimson also added a win at Clarkson University and a tie at No. 6 St. Lawrence University and moved up a spot to No. 5.
The University of Connecticut made its first-ever appearance in the poll at No. 10 after a tie and a win at home versus No. 8 University of New Hampshire.
NOTES: The nation's leading goal scorer and Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award finalist, No. 5 Harvard's Nicole Corriero, was named the 2005 Beanpot MVP. Of the four Harvard players who have been awarded the Kazmaier, all four had been named the Beanpot MVP the same year ... No. 6 St. Lawrence suffered its first home loss of the season, to Brown University on Friday (Feb. 18) ... Minnesota's streak of 19 straight weeks at No. 1 is second only to Dartmouth College's streak of 21 weeks in 2000-01 ... Golden Gopher forwards Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell, two of the 10 Kazmaier finalists, lead the nation in scoring with 92 (33 goals, 59 assists) and 86 (36 goals, 50 assists) points, respectively.
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 - #19
(first-place votes in parentheses)
| Last Week | Record | Weeks In Top 10 | |
| 1. University of Minnesota, 190 (19) | 1 | 29-1-2 | 19 |
| 2. University of Minnesota Duluth, 161 | 2 | 23-3-2 | 19 |
| 3. Dartmouth College, 158 | 3 | 23-3-0 | 19 |
| 4. University of Wisconsin, 135 | 4 | 24-7-1 | 19 |
| 5. Harvard University, 106 | 6 | 18-6-3 | 19 |
| 6. St. Lawrence University, 105 | 5 | 23-5-4 | 19 |
| 7. Mercyhurst College, 77 | 7 | 22-6-2 | 17 |
| 8. University of New Hampshire, 49 | 8 | 19-6-5 | 19 |
| 9. Princeton University, 44 | 9 | 14-7-5 | 15 |
| 10. University of Connecticut, 15 | NR | 12-11-7 | 1 |
Others receiving votes: Providence College, 4; The Ohio State University, 2;Colgate University, 1.
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