{"id":5012,"date":"2012-10-04T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2012-10-04T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:15:22","slug":"preseason-wcha-poll-picks-gophers-to-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5012","title":{"rendered":"Preseason WCHA Poll Picks Gophers To Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5040\" title=\"wcha\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wcha.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Coaches in the Western Collegiate<br \/>\nHockey Association are picking Minnesota to repeat as the<br \/>\nregular-season champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gophers received 11 of 12 first-place votes in the annual<br \/>\nGrand Forks Herald\u00a0 preseason coaches&#8217; poll.<br \/>\nNorth Dakota &#8211; last year&#8217;s WCHA playoff champion &#8211; got the other<br \/>\nfirst-place vote and finished second in the poll.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the top five is Denver, St. Cloud State and<br \/>\nWisconsin.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota-Duluth is sixth in the poll, followed by Colorado<br \/>\nCollege, Omaha, Michigan Tech, Minnesota-Mankato, Bemidji State and<br \/>\nAlaska-Anchorage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Coaches in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association are picking Minnesota to repeat as the regular-season champion. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gophers received 11 of 12 first-place votes in the annual Grand Forks Herald\u00a0 preseason coaches&#8217; poll. North Dakota &#8211; last year&#8217;s WCHA playoff champion &#8211; got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","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\/5012","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=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}