Dutchmen ranked #20 in USCHO.com poll

It looks like I was pretty on target with the rankings as Union barely cracked the USCHO.com poll and now sits as the #20 college hockey team in the nation. Supposedly this is the first time the Dutchmen have been ranked since December 4th, 2000 when they were ranked 12th. It makes sense to me, but now they just have to prove it on Wednesday against RPI. The thing the Dutchmen have to be worried about is that what comes along with the national ranking is a bulls eye that is put on you by other teams. Union joins Cornell (#5), Quinnipiac (#7), and Yale (#8) as the only ECAC teams in the Top 20.

Here's the complete rankings: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/?data=uscho1m&week=poll

Read what Ken Schott has to say about it in his "College Hockey Slap Schotts: Week 9" :
http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/schott/2009/dec/07/college-hockey-slap-schotts-week-9/