The first USCHO.com poll is out and the Wisconsin Badgers Men's Hockey Team is tied for first place with the team it defeated to win the National Championship, the Boston College Eagles.
According to the results in this article, the Badgers received more first place votes than BC (17 to 10) but the other ballots tended to have UW ranked behind BC, evening things out into a tie.
The range of opinions on UW reflects the program's heavy offseason losses to graduation and early departure after the national championship, while BC returns comparatively more of its core talent.
The next five slots in the poll were headed by No. 6 North Dakota, which earned one first-place pick. The Fighting Sioux were followed by Michigan (two first-place votes), No. 8 Miami, ninth-ranked Denver and then No. 10 New Hampshire.
Maine was No. 11, followed by three straight ECACHL teams: Harvard, Cornell and then Colgate, which garnered the remaining first-place vote to start the season.
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