Way early 2023 DI Ranking... guessing :-)
1 - North Carolina
2 - Maryland
3 - Northwestern
4 - Boston College
5 - Stony Brook
6 - Syracuse
7 - Florida
8 - Rutgers
9 - James Madison
10 - Denver
11 - Stanford
12 - Loyola
13 - Duke
14 - Notre Dame
15 - Southern California
16 - Princeton
17 - Virginia
18 - Michigan
19 - Jacksonville
20 - Richmond
Happy to see some relatively new faces getting some hype.
Agree with the top 2. Very surprised Maryland is getting so much respect, I seem to recall some of the experts on this site predicting they were finished and would no longer compete with the top teams.
Not sure both BC and Northwestern make the Final Four. Maybe one of them.
Stony Brook, Syracuse and Florida??
Rutgers, JMU and Denver are all solid but not sure all three will finish in the top 10.
Stanford, Loyola and Duke are also solid but none have a lot of room for error if they want to crack the Top 10.
ND, USC and Princeton could probably be swapped out with Stanford, Loyola and Duke. Maybe even with Syracuse, Florida and Rutgers.
Virginia and Michigan will be fighting it out with 5 - 16 trying to break into the Top 10.
Jacksonville and Richmond can't afford to be upset or teams like Hopkins, UMass, Penn State, Arizona State, Penn etc... will move ahead of them.
Are there any teams not listed who can surprise us and shake things up?
A few top 20 games to open the season will be interesting.
UNC/JMU
UVA/Stanford
NW/Syracuse
BC/USC
