Editor’s note: NESN’s Tom Caron is on the 50-member USCHO ranking committee, and you can find his votes on the college hockey week that was every Monday on NESN.com.
Boston University saw its nation-best seven-game winning streak come to a surprising end over the weekend.
New Hampshire handed the red-hot Terriers their first loss in nearly a month, topping them 4-3 at the Whittemore Center on Saturday night. The unexpected loss came one day after BU dominated the Wildcats (11-17-2, 6-11-1 Hockey East) by a 6-3 score, but it was enough to bump them from the top spot in Tom Caron’s poll.
The Terriers (19-5-4, 13-3-2) had found a nice home at the No. 1 spot in Caron’s ballot, holding steady for three consecutive weeks, but they now find themselves looking up at North Dakota. UND let a two-goal, third-period lead slip away Saturday night against Denver before eventually losing in the shootout, but it still managed to stay atop the league standings and snatch the coveted spot from BU.
The Terriers will have another shot to clinch the regular-season Hockey East championship Friday when they take on Notre Dame at home.
Check out where the rest of the team’s stacked up below.
Tom Caron’s official USCHO.com ballot for the week of Feb. 16:
1. North Dakota
2. Boston University
3. Michigan Tech
4. Miami
5. Minnesota State
6. Nebraska-Omaha
7. Bowling Green
8. Minnesota-Duluth
9. Boston College
10. Yale
11. Minnesota
12. Denver
13. Providence
14. Quinnipiac
15. Harvard
16. UMass-Lowell
17. Penn State
18. Michigan
19. St. Lawrence
20. Vermont
And here is the USCHO.com Top 20:
1. North Dakota
2. Minnesota State
3. Boston University
4. Michigan Tech
5. Nebraska-Omaha
6. Miami
7. Minnesota-Duluth
8. Bowling Green
9. Denver
10. Boston College
11. Quinnipiac
12. Providence
13. Yale
14. Harvard
15. Michigan
16. UMass-Lowell
17. Minnesota
18. Vermont
19. Robert Morris
20. St. Lawrence
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