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CCHA Releases Media and Coaches Preseason Polls
September 29, 2010 | Ice Hockey
Bowling Green selected to finished 11th in both polls for 2010-11 season
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – For the third time in four years, the coaches and media disagree over who should own the No. 1 position in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's annual preseason polls. The conference's 11 head coaches ranked defending playoff champion Michigan fi rst, while 75 media members named defending regular-season champion Miami as the preseason favorite.
CCHA release (.pdf)
In the coaches poll, the Wolverines captured eight of a possible 10 first-place votes and two seconds, while Miami took the three remaining fi rst-place votes as well as seven seconds to come in just five points behind the favorite. Alaska took third with Michigan State finishing five points back at fourth.
The media voted in favor of the RedHawks, giving them 57 first-place votes to Michigan's 17. The Spartans garnered a single first place ranking and nine seconds to place third, with Alaska finishing fourth with two seconds and 22 thirds. Both the coaches and the media ranked Notre Dame at No. 5.
The Wolverines, who became the lowest-seeded team in league history to win the CCHA tournament after finishing the regular season in seventh place, return 19 letterwinners including senior goaltenders Bryan Hogan and Shawn Hunwick. Michigan brings back nine of its top ten scorers, most notably the one-two punch of CCHA Preseason All-Conference First-Team selections Carl Hagelin and Louie Caporusso, who combined for 93 points last season.
The RedHawks are coming off back-to-back appearances in the Frozen Four and return 17 letterwinners, including 2010 RBC CCHA Player of the Year Cody Reichard in goal and CCHA Preseason All-Conference First Team selection Andy Miele on offense. They also return all seven defensemen from a squad that won 29 games last season, most notably 2010 CCHA Defensive Defenseman of the year Will Weber and CCHA Preseason All-Conference First-Team member Chris Wideman.
The Nanooks bring back 18 players back from the team that finished fi fth in the CCHA standings last season and will be led offensively by 2010 CCM CCHA Rookie of the Year Andy Taranto, who had 42 points. Michigan State will build off a second-place regular-season finish led by sophomore captain Torey Krug, while senior forward Calle Ridderwall, who notched 31 and 27 points in his sophomore and junior campaigns, returns to lead Notre Dame.
A total of 75 media members ranked the 11 CCHA teams in projected order of finish for the regular season. Points were awarded on an 11-10-9-8, etc., basis. League coaches ranked the CCHA teams, excluding their own school, in the order they predicted the regular season will end.
| Coaches Poll |
Media Poll | |||||
| 1 | Michigan (8) | 108 | 1 | Miami (57) | 877 | |
| 2 | Miami (3) | 103 | 2 | Michigan (17) | 825 | |
| 3 | Alaska | 81 | 3 | Michigan State (1) | 651 | |
| 4 | Michigan State | 76 | 4 | Alaska | 618 | |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 75 | 5 | Notre Dame | 567 | |
| 6 | Northern Michigan | 65 | 6 | Ferris State | 546 | |
| 7 | Ferris State | 64 | 7 | Northern Michigan | 536 | |
| 8 | Ohio State | 56 | 8 | Ohio State | 428 | |
| 9 | Lake Superior | 35 | 9 | Lake Superior | 312 | |
| 10 | Western Michigan | 29 | 10 | Western Michigan | 225 | |
| 11 | Bowling Green | 23 | 11 |
Bowling Green | 190 |
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