Originally Posted by Anonymous
What Program is on the way up? What Program will be able to be in the Top 20 consistently?

Below are the programs that finish the season ranked in the Top 20 every year (past 6 - 8 years more than that is too far back).

Maryland
North Carolina
Northwestern
Syracuse
Virginia
Florida
Penn
Princeton
Notre Dame
Boston College
Stony Brook
Penn State (not this year)

Below are the programs that are Top 20 all most years.

Loyola
Georgetown
Hopkins
Duke
JMU
USC
Denver
Stanford

Navy has come on strong in recent years.

Towson is up and down as is UMass.

Colorado is also now in the mix.

Dartmouth looks to be back as one of the perennial Top 20 Programs.

Those are arguably the Top 25 Programs.

What happened to Louisville , Ohio State, Albany? They had some success some years ago but have fallen off.

What programs outside of that list are positioned to make the jump? Michigan? Who else?



Louisville had more than half the program transfer. They fired old head coach. Bulk of team is rising Juniors/Sophomores. New coach (Scott Teeter) will right the ship before long and get them back to a competitive program.

Ohio State just fired their staff. I would expect new staff will bring about changes with better success rather quickly (see Michigan's quick turn around).

Albany has a new staff, Katie Rowan's 1st year wasn't terrible. I hope they improve enough to be competitive with SBU in the America East.