Huge Crimson’s Eighth Consecutive Season Ranked in USCHO.com Preseason Ballot
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell males’s hockey staff is opening the 2024-25 season because the No. 9-ranked staff within the first DCU/USCHO.com ballot of the season, it was introduced.
Cornell collected 585 factors, ending 48 factors behind No. 8-ranked Quinnipiac and 96 factors forward of No. 10-ranked Wisconsin. The Huge Crimson additionally acquired two of the 50 first-place votes within the ballot, becoming a member of top-ranked Denver (42 first-place votes) and No. 2-ranked Boston School (six first-place votes).
The Huge Crimson are ranked inside the prime 20 of the preseason USCHO.com ballot for the eighth consecutive 12 months. Cornell is one in all six groups to be ranked within the first USCHO ballot in every of the final eight seasons, becoming a member of Denver, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota, Notre Dame, and Windfall.
Of the groups ranked within the preseason prime 20, Cornell is scheduled to play three applications, highlighted by No. 5-ranked North Dakota, who will make a visit to Lynah Rink for the Huge Crimson’s first two regular-season residence video games on Nov. 1-2.
Cornell will play No. 8-ranked Quinnipiac thrice within the common season, together with twice in consecutive weekends as it’s going to host the Bobcats at Lynah Rink on Friday, Nov. 22, earlier than clashing on the storied ice of Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis for the biennial Frozen Apple recreation on Saturday, Nov. 30. The Huge Crimson will play on the Bobcats’ residence ice on Saturday, Jan. 18, at M&T Financial institution Area in Hamden, Conn.
The one different ranked program within the USCHO.com preseason ballot that Cornell is scheduled to face this season consists of No. 14-ranked UMass within the first recreation of the Desert Hockey Traditional, hosted by Arizona State, on Friday, Jan. 3, at 5:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. MT). Cornell may play No. 20-ranked Arizona State the next day, ought to the Huge Crimson and Solar Devils document the identical end result.
Cornell’s 2024-25 marketing campaign begins Saturday, Oct. 19, when it hosts Princeton in a scrimmage at Lynah Rink at 5 p.m. Following an exhibition with the College of Toronto on Saturday, Oct. 26, Cornell will open a four-game homestand to open the 2024-25 common season, starting with its two-game collection with No. 5-ranked North Dakota on Nov. 1-2.
DCU/USCHO.COM PRESEASON POLL
Daring denotes scheduled Cornell opponent for 2024-25 season
TEAM (First-place votes) — POINTS
- Denver (48) — 988 factors
- Boston School (6) — 945 factors
- Boston College — 869 factors
- Michigan State — 775 factors
- North Dakota — 755 factors
- Minnesota — 748 factors
- Michigan — 690 factors
- Quinnipiac — 633 factors
- Cornell (2) — 585 factors
- Wisconsin — 489 factors
- Colorado School — 449 factors
- Maine — 425 factors
- Windfall — 392 factors
- UMass — 329 factors
- Omaha — 262 factors
- St. Cloud State — 247 factors
- Western Michigan — 224 factors
- Minnesota Duluth — 95 factors
- Notre Dame — 79 factors
- Arizona State — 61 factors
Northeastern — 61 factors
Others receiving votes: RIT (55), St. Thomas (53), Michigan Tech (47), Bemidji State (44), New Hampshire (31), Sacred Coronary heart (29), Penn State (23), Harvard (22), Holy Cross (14), Ohio State (14), Minnesota State (12), Dartmouth (10), Merrimack (9), Clarkson (8), UConn (7), AIC (4), UMass Lowell (4), Colgate (3), LIU (2), Brown (1), St. Lawrence (1)
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