Interesting ranking poll from Sports Illustrated/Money magazine. It ranks the best colleges for sports lovers. The equations used is based on participation, fan experience, education and earnings potential after graduation (I guess that is where Money magazine comes in). Some may be surprised at the results.
1) Stanford 2) Notre Dame 3) Michigan 4) Duke 5) Virginia 6) North Carolina 7) Florida 8) Middlebury 9) Yale 10) Bowdoin 11) Dartmouth 12) UCLA 13) Rice 14) Maryland 15) Georgia 16) USC 17) UConn 18) Ohio St 19) Princeton 20) Texas 21) Clemson 22) Colgate 23) Lafayette 24) Boston College 25) Wisconsin
There is a lot of lacrosse programs in the top 25. Don't discount the D3 schools. There are plenty more in the next 75. There are also many lacrosse programs in there as well that may not make the top twenty in lacrosse but are great schools. For the vast majority of student athletes college is the last time they will play lacrosse. The education and opportunities after graduation is what counts. Here is the rest of the top 100.
26. University of Richmond 27. Amherst College 28. Providence College 29. Villanova University 30. Wake Forest University 31. Michigan State University 32. Harvard University 33. Bates College 34. University of Washington 35. Gettysburg College 36. Gustavus Adolphus College 37. Vanderbilt University 38. Northwestern University 39. Williams College 40. Claremont McKenna College 41. (tie) Denison University 41. (tie) Davidson College 43. Texas A&M University 44. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 45. College of the Holy Cross 46. (tie) Syracuse University 46. (tie) Hamilton College 48. DePauw University 49. Bucknell University 50. Georgia Institute of Technology 51. McDaniel College 52. Union College 53. University of Iowa 54. Brown University 55. Pennsylvania State University 56. University of Minnesota 57. Pomona College 58. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 59. Ursinus College 60. Tufts University 61. Georgetown University 62. Wheaton College 63. Wofford College 64. Florida State University 65. Gonzaga University 66. Westminster College 67. University of California-Berkeley 68. College of William and Mary 69. Indiana University 70. Trinity College 71. Furman University 72. University of Delaware 73. University of Oklahoma 74. Texas Christian University 75. Simpson College 76. Colby College 77. Auburn University 78. Hobart and William Smith Colleges 79. Centre College 80. Linfield College 81. Washington and Lee University 82. Brigham Young University 83. James Madison University 84. Lehigh University 85. Loras College 86. Southern Methodist University 87. (tie) Muhlenberg College 87. (tie) Rutgers University-New Brunswick 89. University of Pennsylvania 90. University of Nebraska 91. Augustana College (South Dakota) 92. (tie) Augustana College (Illinois) 92. (tie) Baylor University 94. Assumption College 95. Sewanee - The University of the South 96. The Citadel 97. University of Utah 98. Columbia University 99. Messiah College 100. Presbyterian College