{"id":108040,"date":"2016-09-27T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108040"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:41:35","slug":"und-no-1-in-mens-ncaa-preseason-ncaa-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108040","title":{"rendered":"UND No.1 in men&#8217;s NCAA preseason  poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98516\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UNDhockey2016-300x202.png\" alt=\"UNDhockey2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UNDhockey2016-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UNDhockey2016-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UNDhockey2016-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UNDhockey2016.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Defending NCAA men\u2019s hockey champion North Dakota tops the first preseason poll of the season.<\/p>\n<p>UND received 43 of the 50 first-place votes in the USCHO.com poll. The team the Fighting Hawks beat in last year\u2019s national title game, Quinnipiac, is second in the poll, with one-first place vote.<\/p>\n<p>Boston received five first-place votes and is No. 4 in the poll, and Boston College got one first-place vote and is fifth. Denver is third despite getting no top votes.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the top 10 is Minnesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State, Massachusetts-Lowell, Notre Dame and Providence.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Today\/USA Hockey Magazine preseason poll is to be released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>UND will raise its eighth national title banner before Saturday\u2019s exhibition game against Manitoba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Defending NCAA men\u2019s hockey champion North Dakota tops the first preseason poll of the season. UND received 43 of the 50 first-place votes in the USCHO.com poll. The team the Fighting Hawks beat in last year\u2019s national title game, Quinnipiac, is second in the poll, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108042,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108040\/revisions\/108042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}