Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
2022 Final Rankings (RPI)


1 North Carolina
2 Boston College
3 Maryland
4 Northwestern
5 Florida
6 Syracuse
7 Stony Brook
8 Loyola
9 Rutgers
10 Denver
11 Princeton
12 James Madison
13 Duke
14 Virginia
15 Jacksonville
16 Johns Hopkins
17 UConn
18 Michigan
19 Massachusetts
20 Notre Dame
21 Southern California
22 Temple
23 Ohio St.
24 Yale
25 Penn St.
26 Vanderbilt
27 Stanford
28 Arizona St.
29 Navy
30 Saint Joseph's
31 Richmond
32 Vermont
33 Fairfield
34 Mercer
35 Army West Point
36 Virginia Tech
37 Drexel
38 Davidson
39 Towson
40 Georgetown
41 UAlbany
42 Louisville
43 Colorado
44 Liberty
45 Mount St. Mary's
46 High Point
47 Penn
48 Monmouth
49 Canisius
50 Pittsburgh
51 Siena
52 Hofstra
53 Harvard
54 Cornell
55 San Diego St.
56 Niagara
57 Lehigh
58 East Carolina
59 Brown
60 Manhattan
61 UMBC
62 Furman
63 Marquette
64 Bryant
65 Binghamton
66 Cincinnati
67 Delaware
68 Wagner
69 Villanova
70 Dartmouth
71 Central Mich.
72 UC Davis
73 Kennesaw St.
74 New Hampshire
75 Campbell
76 Duquesne
77 Elon
78 Iona
79 American
80 Quinnipiac
81 Robert Morris
82 Colgate
83 William & Mary
84 Coastal Carolina
85 Holy Cross
86 Bucknell
87 Gardner-Webb
88 VCU
89 Oregon
90 George Washington
91 Butler
92 UMass Lowell
93 California
94 La Salle
95 Stetson
96 Marist
97 Youngstown St.
98 Columbia
99 Boston U.
100 Sacred Heart
101 Old Dominion
102 George Mason
103 Lafayette
104 LIU
105 Wofford
106 Winthrop
107 Kent St.
108 Longwood
109 Merrimack
110 Saint Francis
111 Central Conn. St.
112 Radford
113 St. Bonaventure
114 Detroit Mercy
115 Presbyterian
116 Akron
117 Delaware St.
118 Howard

NIKE/USA LACROSSE
DIVISION I WOMEN’S TOP 20

June 6, 2022

------- Final Ranking -------- Preseason Ranking ------

1 - North Carolina - 2

2 - Boston College - 1

3 - Maryland - 6

4 - Northwestern - 4

5 - Stony Brook - 5

6 - Loyola - 9

7 - Syracuse - 3

8 - Florida - 10

9 - Princeton - 13

10 - Rutgers - 16

11 - Denver - 15

12 - Duke - 8

13 - James Madison - 12

14 - Michigan - Also Considered / received votes

15 - Notre Dame - 7

16 - Virginia - 11

17 - USC - Not Ranked

18 - Jacksonville - 18

19 - Stanford - 14

20 - Arizona State - Not Ranked


Final -- Also considered (alphabetical order): Drexel, Johns Hopkins, Saint Joseph's, UConn, UMass, Yale

Preseason -- Also considered (alphabetical order): Johns Hopkins, Louisville, Michigan, Penn State, Richmond, Temple


Preseason Ranking turned out to be fairly accurate and the "Human Poll" seems to track pretty close to the "RPI".

Two Preseason Top 10 dropped out (Duke, Notre Dame) Two moved into Top 10 (Princeton, Rutgers).

Three Preseason Top 20 dropped out (Drexel, UConn, Penn) Three moved into Top 20 (Michigan, USC, ArizonaSt).

Looks like Notre Dame was the most overrated team in the in the preseason poll.

Technically, all of the ACC Teams that were ranked in the Preseason Poll were overrated. Boston College, Syracuse, Duke, Notre Dame, Virginia and Louisville all finished the year ranked lower than where they started the year.