{"id":401759,"date":"2026-09-16T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401759\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:10:08","slug":"miami-hockey-picked-fifth-in-nchc-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401759\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hockey Picked Fifth in NCHC Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.\u2014 The National Collegiate Hockey Conference unveiled its preseason poll today, and the Miami RedHawks are ranked fifth in the poll behind a quartet of 2026 NCAA Tournament teams.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMiami received 175 votes in the poll, trailing only Denver, North Dakota, Minnesota Duluth and Western Michigan. The fifth-place spot is the highest the RedHawks have been predicted to finish since the 2017-18 preseason poll. With the addition of St. Thomas to give the conference 10 teams this season, the top five finishers in NCHC play will host a first-round playoff series.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter an 18-16-2 season a year ago (the program&#8217;s best record since 2014-15), Miami will open the 2026-27 campaign on Friday, Oct. 2 at Northern Michigan.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe complete NCHC poll can be found below:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n1. Denver, 304 points (14 first-place votes)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2. North Dakota, 302 points (12 first-place votes)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n3. Minnesota Duluth, 273 points (7 first-place votes)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n4. Western Michigan, 237 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5. MIAMI, 175 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n6. Colorado College, 159 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n7. St. Thomas, 121 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n8. St. Cloud State, 102 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n9. Arizona State, 73 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n10. Omaha, 69 points<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.\u2014 The National Collegiate Hockey Conference unveiled its preseason poll today, and the Miami RedHawks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-401759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}