Originally Posted by Anonymous
Honest question for all the posters who are arguing about what order the top 5 or 10 teams should be ranked - Why do you care so much? All of them are going to make the tournament and then have to beat whoever they play to win the championship. And the rankings don't even transfer to seedings and matchups like some of the other sports, since the tournament committee seems to use different criteria and many matchups are determined by geography to minimize travel costs.

Nobody cares who comes in second on May 27th, much less who was ranked number 1, 2 or 3 on March 27th.


Now that a lot of games have been played, who are the Champ favorites and one or two that could take it in a surprise?

1. Maryland
2. Stony Brook

Really see it coming down to one of these two.

Dark Horse (Meaning someone outside current top 5) ... Penn or Northwestern.