College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented a few top twenty matches, and Quinnipiac managed a tie against RPI, and the Bobcats held on at #1 (Quinnipiac also tied Maine during the week), while RPI held on at #16, and they went on to beat Union College Saturday night. Providence split with UMass-Lowell, edging Providence down…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented ten teams in five top-twenty matches, and North Dakota met up with a very determined Nebraska-Omaha, splitting the weekend, and edging the Fighting Hawks down to #2, and lifting UNO up a couple of spots to #7.  Boston College kept a lid on Boston University as the Eagles came…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend featured seven teams in four top-twenty matchups, and Quinnipiac topped Harvard Saturday night, after Harvard had lost to Boston University on Thursday night.  Quinnipiac held at #2, having also beaten Union College Friday; Harvard dropped a couple of spots to #7 on the two losses, and Boston University edged up…

College Hockey Update:  Last week/end presented a few top twenty matches, one of which we reported on last week as Cornell topped Providence for Providence’s first loss, setting up the Florida Classic Tournament consolation round of Providence vs Boston College, which Providence won.  BC had lost to Ohio State to set that up, and Cornell…

College Hockey Update:  Last night only four games were played, and three of them ended in upsets, starting with #9 Cornell squeaking one past previously unbeaten, defending national champion, and #1 Providence College, at the Florida College Classic Tournament in Estero, Florida.  Providence got on the board lightning fast, only 27 seconds into the first,…

College Hockey Update:  This week we’ll do something we rarely do — report on all NCAA DI men’s hockey games played last weekend — which won’t take much space because so few games were played.  #6 Nebraska-Omaha had no trouble at all sweeping Arizona State (don’t you just love seeing the name Arizona State appearing…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented nine top twenty teams in five top twenty matchups, and North Dakota moved up a couple of pegs to #2 on its sweep of Minnesota-Duluth (North Dakota was also aided by falls by Quinnipiac and Boston College), which knocked UMD down a couple of spots to #19.  Quinnipiac was…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented twelve of the top twenty teams matched up against each other, and Providence held on to the #1 ranking with a sweep of Merrimack, which dropped Merrimack down three spots to #19.  Quinnipiac edged up to #2 (partially on a tie by Boston College), after beating Yale (Yale also…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented three sets of top twenty matchups, and Providence beat Yale, keeping Providence at #1, and keeping Yale at #10.  Harvard beat Notre Dame in the first round of Notre Dame’s tournament, keeping Harvard at #8 (Harvard beat RPI the next night), and dropping Notre Dame a couple of spots…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented four pairs of top twenty matchups, as Quinnipiac and St. Lawrence skated to a scoreless tie, leaving Quinnipiac at #3 (Quinnipiac had beaten Connecticut and tied Clarkson earlier in the week) and leaving St. Lawrence at #14 (St. Lawrence had beaten Princeton the night before).  This was the first…