Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Dec. 11 fared over the Dec. 15-31 time frame.
No. 1 St. Cloud State – tied Princeton twice
No. 2 Denver – split with Dartmouth, lost to Merrimack, defeated Air Force
No. 3 Notre Dame – did not play
No. 4 Clarkson – did not play
No. 5 Cornell – defeated No. 20 Canisius
No. 6 North Dakota – defeated U.S. NTDP Under-18 Team (exhibition)
No. 7 Minnesota State – swept Alabama Huntsville, split with Northern Michigan
No. 8 Northeastern – tied Merrimack, defeated American International
No. 9 Ohio State – swept Niagara
No. 10 Minnesota – swept Army West Point
No. 11 Providence – defeated Arizona State, defeated Robert Morris
No. 12 Western Michigan – defeated Bowling Green
No. 13 Wisconsin – did not play
No. 14 Boston College – defeated Connecticut
No. 15 Penn State – did not play
No. 16 New Hampshire – lost to Dartmouth, lost to Yale
No. 17 Minnesota Duluth – defeated Yale, tied Dartmouth
No. 18 Colgate – did not play
No. 19 Union – swept by Omaha
No. 20 Canisius – lost to No. 5 Cornell
