The Nike/LM Top 20 will be updated each Monday throughout the season and is determined by the staff of Lacrosse Magazine.

1 Syracuse
2 North Carolina
3 Denver
4 Notre Dame
5 Duke
6 Virginia
7 Yale
8 Cornell
9 Maryland
10 Marquette
11 Albany
12 Loyola (Md.)
13 Harvard
14 Villanova
15 Princeton
16 Brown
17 Holy Cross
18 Johns Hopkins
19 Army
20 Ohio St.