Preseason WCHA Poll Picks Gophers To Repeat

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Coaches in the Western Collegiate
Hockey Association are picking Minnesota to repeat as the
regular-season champion.
     The Gophers received 11 of 12 first-place votes in the annual
Grand Forks Herald  preseason coaches’ poll.
North Dakota – last year’s WCHA playoff champion – got the other
first-place vote and finished second in the poll.
     The rest of the top five is Denver, St. Cloud State and
Wisconsin.
     Minnesota-Duluth is sixth in the poll, followed by Colorado
College, Omaha, Michigan Tech, Minnesota-Mankato, Bemidji State and
Alaska-Anchorage.