Idle Lopes settle into Top 10 for unprecedented fifth straight week
By: Jim Howell/GCU Club Sports Information Director
GCU Club Sports is proud to announce that for the second straight week, the Grand Canyon University Men’s Ice Hockey Division II team is ranked 9th in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division II West Poll. It’s also the fifth consecutive week that the Lopes are in the ACHA top 10 (including their highest-ever ranking of No. 8 two weeks ago). Like all but two teams in the poll, the Lopes were idle last week, and as a result, the top nine teams stayed intact, and only two pairs of teams switched places in the entire top 20.
The Lopes’ inactivity will continue throughout the holiday break. The Lopes finally return to action for the 2018 portion of their season January 5 in Tucson against the University of Arizona.
The entire ACHA West Rankings are listed below:
| Rank | School | Record | Rating |
| 1 | Northern Arizona (D2) | 15-4-1 | 97.56 |
| 2 | Utah State | 18-5-1 | 96.47 |
| 3 | Northern Colorado | 16-3-1 | 96.39 |
| 4 | Williston State College | 10-9-1 | 95.94 |
| 5 | Boise State | 17-1-1 | 95.29 |
| 6 | University of Denver | 11-6-1 | 94.83 |
| 7 | MSU-Denver | 10-9-2 | 94.64 |
| 8 | San Diego State | 15-1-2 | 94.37 |
| 9 | Grand Canyon (D2) | 9-11-3 | 94.29 |
| 10 | Weber State | 11-12-1 | 93.71 |
| 11 | Arizona State (D2) | 11-11 | 93.71 |
| 12 | Colorado (D2) | 6-11-1 | 93.46 |
| 13 | Texas | 14-2 | 93.16 |
| 14 | BYU | 5-9-2 | 93.15 |
| 15 | Colorado State (D2) | 5-12 | 93.05 |
| 16 | Wyoming | 7-11-1 | 92.84 |
| 17 | Cal-State Northridge | 9-7 | 92.78 |
| 18 | Long Beach State | 6-8 | 92.36 |
| 19 | Dakota College | 2-7 | 92.35 |
| 20 | California | 11-2-1 | 92.23 |
