Portland, ME – Bowdoin College fell a couple spots in the new USCHO.com D-III poll, released on Jan. 5. The Polar Bears are still the only D-III school from Maine currently ranked or recieving consideration at this point of the season. Bowdoin last played on Dec. 28, losing in OT to Salem St., 4-3, in the finals of the Salem State Classic.
Bowdoin’s next game will be this Friday when they take on the New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire.
| Rank | Team | (First Place Votes) | W-L-T | Points | Last Poll |
| 1 | Plattsburgh | (17) | 11-0-2 | 297 | 1 |
| 2 | Wis.-Superior | (2) | 13-1-1 | 281 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Norbert | (1) | 12-3-0 | 250 | 4 |
| 4 | Middlebury | 7-1-0 | 233 | 3 | |
| 5 | Wis.-Stout | 9-4-0 | 205 | 6 | |
| 6 | St. Scholastica | 10-3-1 | 192 | 7 | |
| 7 | Elmira | 8-4-0 | 170 | 5 | |
| 8 | Adrian | 11-1-1 | 134 | 9 | |
| 9 | Hobart | 10-4-0 | 131 | 8 | |
| 10 | Hamline | 10-5-1 | 114 | 10 | |
| 11 | Oswego | 10-5-1 | 114 | 11 | |
| 12 | Norwich | 5-2-2 | 94 | 12 | |
| 13 | Manhattanville | 5-2-1 | 42 | 14 | |
| 14 | Geneseo | 9-3-1 | 40 | 14 | |
| 15 | Bowdoin | 6-2-1 | 30 | 13 |