By Sam Dykstra/DFP Staff
Following a week in which the Boston University men’s hockey team lost to higher-ranked conference opponents Merrimack College and Boston College in consecutive 3-2 games before pulling out a 2-1 road win over a No. 7 team in University of New Hampshire, it’d be easy to justify any movement – upward, downward or none at all – in the national polls this week for the Terriers.
The answer to just how the national pollsters would view a 1-2 week against ranked rivals came Monday, when BU (11-7-6, 8-5-4 Hockey East) dropped one spot to No. 16 in the USCHO.com poll and remained unranked in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, which only gives rankings to teams in its top 15 spots.
In the PairWise rankings – a system similar to the one used by the NCAA Selection Committee – the Terriers stand tied for 17th with Colorado College and the University of Maine, BU’s opponent for a pair of road games this weekend.
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