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.
Not all, North Carolina finished higher than their preseason ranking. 🤣