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MINNEAPOLIS — The Plattsburgh State men's hockey team will start the 2009-10 season where it finished last year: ranked No. 1 in the nation by USCHO.com. The Cardinals received five first-place votes and a total of 253 points to edge defending NCAA Division III champion Neumann (nine first-place votes, 245) by eight points.

Plattsburgh has extended a school record of 15 consecutive weeks, including last season, at No. 1 in the NCAA Division III poll of 15 coaches and five media members.

Voters apparently were not phased by the fact that Plattsburgh lost a combined 77 percent of its offensive points from last year's squad that went 24-2-2. That team set a school record for conference wins with a 15-0-1 SUNYAC record and captured the conference regular-season and tournament championships.

Plattsburgh State was also chosesn by the nine SUNYAC head coaches to repeat as conference champions in 2009-10. The Cardinals received 71 points and seven first-place votes to edge second-place Oswego (66, 2).

The rest of the SUNYAC coaches' poll has 3. Geneseo, 56; 4. Potsdam, 47; 5. Fredonia, 45; 6. Buffalo State, 34; 7. Brockport, 31; 8. Cortland, 26; and 9. Morrisville, 20 (ineligible for SUNYAC/NCAA postseason play).

The Cardinals return a solid core of veterans and have a talented recruiting class of 13 freshmen. The list of returnees starts with All-American junior forward Dylan Clarke, who racked up career highs of 23 assists and 39 points to earn All-SUNYAC First Team honors in 2009. Phil Farrow, who had career highs of 12 goals and 26 assists for 38 points, also returns.

Ryan Corry, who made the All-SUNYAC first team as a sophomore, is the team's top returning defenseman. One of the top-scoring blueliners in the nation, he also helped a stingy Plattsburgh defense that ranked first in SUNYAC and was third in Division III scoring defense at 1.93 per game.

Plattsburgh opens the new season in earnest this weekend, hosting SUNYAC opponents Geneseo and Brockport.