(Nov. 16, 2009) — Michigan State keeps climbing the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll. Next stop, top five? The Spartans are on the brink, checking in this week at No. 6 after a sweep of a home-and-home series with then-No. 6 Michigan. Miami retained the top spot ...

(Nov. 16, 2009) — Ibid. What better way to describe a poll where none of the top five teams (nor the top 15) change? For the second consecutive week, St. Norbert is the top team in college hockey, followed closely by Oswego, Plattsburgh, Manhattanville, and Adrian. What did ...

(Nov. 14, 2009) — Former Mass.-Lowell River Hawks forward Ryan Golden was killed in the early hours Saturday morning when his car rolled over on the highway in his hometown of Reading, Mass. Golden, who played at Lowell from 1993 through 1997, was a member of the last two River Hawks ...

(Nov. 11, 2009) — Minnesota forward Jordan Schroeder says all the speculation about his departure from the Golden Gophers is false. In a rare response to Internet rumors that he was planning to leave Minnesota, Schroeder committed his future to the team. "I am fully committed to ...

(Nov. 9, 2009) — What is past is prologue. Or so it must seem to the St. Norbert Green Knights who, a year removed from a national championship, can again lay claim to being the top team in D-III college hockey. Gaining any sense of comfort upon that throne, however, would probably ...

(Nov. 9, 2009) — Miami strengthened its hold on the top spot in the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll on Monday, collecting 49 of the 50 first-place votes. Related link: Full rankings The RedHawks swept a pair of games at then-No. 4 Michigan last weekend, ...

(Nov. 9, 2009) — Air Force and coach Frank Serratore have agreed to a new five-year contract that will keep Serratore behind the Falcons' bench through the 2013-14 season, the school announced Monday. Serratore, who is in his 13th season with Air Force, has led the Falcons to three ...

(Nov. 5, 2009) — Minnesota forward Jay Barriball will have season-ending surgery to repair a knee injury he suffered in practice on Tuesday, the school announced Thursday. Barriball, a senior, is eligible to apply to the NCAA for a medical hardship waiver. If approved, he would be ...

(Nov. 2, 2009) — Nebraska-Omaha has joined the top 10 of the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll at No. 10, and fellow undefeated team Bemidji State is knocking at the door. Related link: The full rankings Miami retained the top spot in the poll after a pair of ...

(Oct. 26, 2009) — Controlled chaos. How else to better explain USCHO’s inaugural USCHO.com Division III men’s hockey poll? Eight different teams received first place votes, with six each having a lone supporter. The top two squads--Plattsburgh, last year’s top ranked team ...

(Oct. 26, 2009) — Massachusetts-Lowell vaulted into the top 10 of the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll on Monday, checking in at No. 9 after home wins last weekend over Colgate and Northeastern. That moved the River Hawks up four spots. Related: The full poll ...

(Oct. 19, 2009) — Miami reigns as the top team in the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll, but Vermont and Nebraska-Omaha made the biggest jumps. Related: The full poll Vermont impressed the voters with a 4-1 victory over Boston College on Sunday, and that moved the ...

(Oct. 15, 2009) — Freshman winger Kenny Ryan has left Boston College, coach Jerry York said Thursday. Ryan is expected to join the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League. The move comes after Ryan played in two exhibition games with BC. The Eagles open the season Sunday at ...

(Oct. 13, 2009) — It's not unusual for the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Poll to get quite a shake from the preseason to the first week of the regular season, and that's exactly what happened this season. Only six of the 20 teams ranked in the preseason poll kept their ...

(Oct. 9, 2009) — Westfield State recently announced the hiring of Bob Miele as the new head coach of it's men's hockey program. Miele served as an assistant with the college for the past two seasons and replaces former head coach Jerry Keefe who earlier this off-season accepted a ...

Weekend Roundup If anyone had any doubts as to how wide open the MIAC is this season, the opening weekend of conference play dispelled them. Only one team managed to win both games this weekend and of the eight games played only two were decided by more than two ...

The Champs are Back in Town It’s been a long seven-and-a-half-month wait for Jim Plumer and the Amherst Lady Jeffs after winning last year’s NCAA championship in thrilling fashion with a 4-3 overtime victory over Elmira. However, this Saturday the wait is finally ...

Ragging the puck while waiting for the Qwest Tour to hit the Granite State … Ten Years of Title-hunting Taking note that Minnesota-Duluth will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in womens' hockey this weekend - “A Decade of Dominance” - when Minnesota State ...

Another week brings another installment of the USCHO.com Division III men's poll and in what is, as usual, no real shock, NCHA teams are all over the place. Five in all grace this week’s edition, and once again St. Norbert is most newsworthy. The Green Knights two ...

Developing Stories The season is still quite young. However, certain stories are already starting to develop. For starters, and not surprisingly, Oswego and Plattsburgh are staking their claim as the elite teams in the SUNYAC as well as national contenders. ...

Growing Pains With a very youthful team, Neumann has been struggling through the first quarter of the season. The Knights are a respectable 2-2-2, despite having played a very difficult schedule to date. But Neumann is 0-2-2 in its last four games and the two losses ...

Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Nov. 17, 2009

USCHO Senior Writers Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk national championship contenders — in November. Too early? Never. That and more in this week's edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.

When you head west and pull off one big upset, it may be dismissed as a fluke. However, when you pull off a second such stunner, you begin to gain a reputation as a giant-killer ... which is how the hockey world can now regard Robert Morris. Last weekend, the ...

Pipers Pack a Punch The biggest bright spot for the MIAC this weekend was the Hamline Pipers. On Friday, the Pipers won 6-3 at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, who may be the most improved team in the NCHA this season. On Saturday, Hamline was the only ...

Making Strides The 2009-2010 Division III women’s hockey season is well underway and we have already had a couple of major surprises to start off the season. Adrian, a team picked to make some major noise in their first season as an official member of the NCHA, is ...