UNION LAKE, Mich. -- The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) released its second national computer ranking of the Men's Division 1 hockey season on Wednesday, with the Adrian College Bulldogs coming in at No. 5 in the nation.
Ahead of Adrian in the top-four spots sits Jamestown, Minot State, UNLV, and Ohio.
The ACHA uses two computer rankings generated by USHSHO.com, Ranking A (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 7) and Ranking B (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 1), and come up with an average of the two rankings. The ACHA will then use the list generated from the average for its weekly ranking. Ties will be broken using the higher ranked team from Ranking B until the Top 25 teams are listed. All games that go to overtime will be scored as ties in the computer ranking.
Rounding out the Top Five was No. 5 Adrian College (6-1-2), the defending Men's Division I National Champions, who swept a home-and-home series with Indiana Tech last week. Sebastian Smith had three goals while Dylan Gajewski had three assists to pace the Bulldogs on offense. Goaltender Peyton Trzaska got both wins including a shutout on Wednesday night.
The computer ranking will for the eleventh time determine the 24 teams that qualify for the 2025 ACHA Men's Division I National Championships, which will include the following eight auto bids:
- (CHMA) College Hockey Mid-America
- (ECHA) Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association
- (ESCHL) Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League
- (GLCHL) Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League
- (MCH) Midwest College Hockey
- (NECHL) Northeast Collegiate Hockey League
- (WCHL) Western Collegiate Hockey League
- (WHAC) Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
The third computer ranking of the regular season will be released on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
The MD1 Bulldogs will travel to New York this weekend for a two-game set with the No. 9 Niagara Purple Eagles at Dwyer Ice Arena. Puck drops at 7:00 PM on Friday night and 2:30 PM on Saturday afternoon.
