2020 IWLCA Division III Coaches Poll – January 27, 2020



The 2020 season kicks off the same way it ended, with 2019 National Champion Middlebury Panthers sitting atop the preseason IWLCA Division III Coaches Poll. The Panthers grabbed all twenty-five first place votes to put them ahead of Tufts, Salisbury, Gettysburg, and Wesleyan. The teams ranked in the sixth through tenth position all finished the 2019 season at the exact same rank. The NESCAC landed a total of seven teams in the top-25 poll, the most of any conference. Middlebury opens the 2020 season on February 29, when they host #14 Bowdoin College.



Rank Institution Points FPV 2019 Record Final 2019 Rank

1 Middlebury 625 25 22-1 1
2 Tufts 564 0 19-3 3
3 Salisbury 561 0 20-4 2
4 Gettysburg 549 0 19-2 5
5 Wesleyan (CT) 529 0 17-4 4
6 York (PA) 474 0 17-6 6
7 Franklin & Marshall 466 0 17-5 7
8 Washington and Lee 460 0 18-3 8
9 Amherst 444 0 14-6 9
10 Catholic 390 0 17-5 10
11 St. John Fisher 363 0 19-2 12
12 Mary Washington 348 0 16-5 11
13 TCNJ 325 0 14-6 14
14 Bowdoin 312 0 10-8 13
15 William Smith 291 0 17-3 15
16 Colby 225 0 9-7 16
17 Colorado College 210 0 18-2 17
18 Trinity (CT) 195 0 9-7 18
19 Ithaca 175 0 14-7 19
20 University of Scranton 137 0 16-3 20
21 Brockport 112 0 16-5 21
T-22 Denison 100 0 16-5 T-22
T-22 SUNY Cortland 100 0 11-6 T-22
24 SUNY Geneseo 66 0 14-5 24
25 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 56 0 16-3 25