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Forget the introduction, let’s get right to this week’s rankings.
- Notre Dame (Last Week: 4) - A top five win over Maryland and other teams losing made the choice unanimous.
- Penn State (LW: 6) - Nice comeback win over Penn for one of the Big Ten’s finest.
- Maryland (LW: 3) - I don’t think the Terps should be rewarded for their loss nor penalized, so they stay where they are.
- North Carolina (LW: 9) - Nice to see Carolina’s offense (and goaltender) show up in Rocky Mountain High, Colorado.
- Denver (LW: 1) - Trevor Baptiste is good, but winning face-offs doesn’t mean you’ll win the game.
- Syracuse (LW: 8) - Dome magic exists, but the Orange play their first outdoor game this weekend (against St. John’s, so...).
- Loyola (LW: 7) - No movement for the Greyhounds, who got their first big win Wednesday against Towson.
- Rutgers (LW: 15) - If they keep playing like this and don’t make the tournament, the NCAA Tournament system will be deemed rigged.
- Albany (LW: 10) - They could be 4-0 and a top five team had they not lost to ‘Cuse.
- Johns Hopkins (LW: 2) - These Power Rankings do not give any teams mulligans, this isn’t golf here.
- Virginia (LW: 11) - I like what I’m seeing from Lars Tiffany’s group, but there’s some things to work on defensively, including at goal.
- Boston University (LW: 16) - Great to see the polls start to give love to BU, I guess they read our stuff?
- Stony Brook (LW: 19) - The Seawolves might give Albany a run for their money in the America East.
- Army West Point (LW: 20) - They’re a good team, but they’re NOT A TOP TEN TEAM...yet.
- Penn (LW: 14) - I wasn’t biting on the Penn hype just yet, and Saturday showed why, although they’re still a pretty good team.
- Towson (LW: 13) - The Tigers have played in three tight games, and lost one (Loyola).
- Ohio State (LW: 18) - The Buckeyes are undefeated for the first time since 1966, but their best win is against Marquette in Milwaukee.
- Duke (LW: 17) - Duke played Richmond to a tough game, and have Loyola at home this weekend.
- Yale (LW: 5) - Lol, they lost to Bryant and we all thought they’d be a very good team last week.
- Hofstra (LW: 22) - The Pride are always known for good starts, but can they keep it up?
- Princeton (LW: 27) - “Make Princeton Great Again” is working!
- Richmond (LW: 12) - Imagine if Richmond defeated Duke and Duke wasn’t in the top 20, wow!
- Harvard (LW: 25) - They’re the undefeated team nobody’s talking about.
- Bryant (LW: 40) - They stymied Yale’s offense (which had Ben Reeves), but lost to BU earlier.
- Robert Morris (LW: 36) - They should be on everyone’s radar at this point in time.
- Navy (LW: 26) - No movement here for the Mids.
- Brown (LW: 21) - The Bears aren’t the same Bears as they were last year.
- Marist (LW: 29) - The Red Foxes have a solid goaltender in Brian Corrigan as well as J.D. Recor.
- Delaware (LW: 35) - The Blue Hens are a team that should be talked about a little more.
- Michigan (LW: 34) - They got their best win of the season on Saturday on the road...against Furman.
- Sacred Heart (LW: 44) - The Pioneers are looking like a team on the rise after beating a pretty good Providence team.
- Air Force (LW: 24) - The Falcons haven’t had a good win since their regular season upset of Duke.
- Providence (LW: 23) - The Friars were looking like a possible top 20 squad before Sacred Heart ended that possibility.
- Marquette (LW: 28) - The Golden Eagles don’t look like the Big East champions from a year ago.
- Fairfield (LW: 32) - Stag Nation almost lost to UMass Lowell, and their offense is still struggling.
- Monmouth (LW: 38) - The Hawks edged a tough UMass Lowell team to get back to above .500.
- St. Joe’s (LW: 42) - The other Hawks finally got their stride going with wins over St. John’s and Manhattan.
- Hobart (LW: 31) - The Statesmen and their high-powered offense scored just six goals in their loss to Binghamton.
- Bucknell (LW: 33) - Things aren’t looking so good for the darkhorse team in the Patriot League.
- Villanova (LW: 37) - The Main Line cats came from behind to beat Drexel, but then lost to Delaware at home, and their schedule doesn’t get much easier.
- Vermont (LW: 30) - They lost to Dartmouth.
- Binghamton (LW: 51) - The Bearcats look kind of good under Kevin McKeown.
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Georgetown (LW: 43) - Hoya
SuxaSaxa is probably the best winless team around. - Lehigh (LW: 53) - The Mountain Hawks took care of Colgate, but have some work to do in order to be competitive in the Patriot League.
- Quinnipiac (LW: 46) - Nice first win for the Bobcats...over NJIT.
- High Point (LW: 39) - Tim Troutner Jr. is a good goaltender, but the Panthers need more than that to contend in the SoCon.
- Drexel (LW: 41) - The Dragons blew a 10-5 lead to Villanova.
- Furman (LW: 47) - The Paladins played Michigan to a strong outing, but yet again were on the wrong side of the outcome.
- Colgate (LW: 45) - We thought Colgate would improve from last year, but we might be wrong.
- Hartford (LW: 49) - The Hawks blew out Jacksonville for their first win of the season.
- Canisius (LW: 52) - The Golden Griffins defeated Cleveland State in Ohio.
- UMass Lowell (LW: 56) - Although they lost two games by a goal last week, there’s definitely promise in Lowell.
- UMass (LW: 48) - The Minutemen are ranked below the River Hawks, holy cow!
- UMBC (LW: 54) - The Retrievers played Towson to a tight 8-6 contest.
- Detroit Mercy (LW: 58) - The Titans defeated Bellarmine, but bowed to Marquette in the final game of the Midwest Lacrosse Classic.
- Cornell (LW: 51) - Stud freshman Jeff Teat was held pointless, and might be overrated.
- Holy Cross (LW: 59) - The Crusaders played Loyola very well in the first quarter, before Pat Spencer exploded.
- Bellarmine (LW: 58) - Two losses against Detroit Mercy and Ohio State resulted in a bad weekend for the Knights.
- Mercer (LW: 57) - The Bears were crushed by the Wolverines on Thursday.
- Wagner (LW: 62) - The NEC is a surprisingly good conference this year.
- Manhattan (LW: 61) - They had another #WhitneyInOT in triple OT against Hartford, before getting crushed by St. Joe’s.
- St. John’s (LW: 60) - The Red Storm overcame a 7-1 deficit to edge Siena by a goal.
- Dartmouth (LW: 70) - THEY WON A GAME!
- Siena (LW: 63) - They had a win right in their hands, but they blew that opportunity.
- Jacksonville (LW: 64) - Looks like the development in north Florida is going to take some time.
- Cleveland State (LW: 65) - The Vikings are so good in the first quarter, so if they can play like that in the final three, they’ll have a few wins under their belt.
- Mount St. Mary’s (LW: 66) - They didn’t play a game last week.
- Lafayette (LW: 67) - The Leopards got dismantled by Army.
- VMI (LW: 68) - The Keydets lost to Delaware and are now at the nicest spot in the Power Rankings.
- NJIT (LW: 69) - The Highlanders almost got a win over Quinnipiac but it got away.
- Hampton (LW: 71) - Congrats on their first win this weekend!
If you decided to skip the small explanations for each team above, here’s a table for ya.
2017 College Crosse Week 13 Power Rankings
Rank | Team | Record | Last Week | Change | NCAA RPI Ranking |
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Rank | Team | Record | Last Week | Change | NCAA RPI Ranking |
1 | Maryland | 10-3 | 6 | +5 | 1 |
2 | Denver | 11-2 | 5 | +3 | 6 |
3 | Syracuse | 11-2 | 1 | -2 | 2 |
4 | Albany | 12-2 | 4 | -- | 8 |
5 | Ohio State | 12-3 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
6 | Penn State | 12-2 | 9 | +3 | 4 |
7 | Duke | 11-4 | 2 | -5 | 10 |
8 | Rutgers | 10-4 | 13 | +5 | 12 |
9 | North Carolina | 8-7 | 18 | +9 | 9 |
10 | Notre Dame | 8-4 | 8 | -2 | 3 |
11 | Johns Hopkins | 8-5 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
12 | Loyola | 10-5 | 19 | +7 | 15 |
13 | Towson | 8-4 | 20 | +7 | 11 |
14 | Villanova | 9-5 | 16 | +2 | 14 |
15 | Hofstra | 11-2 | 10 | -5 | 13 |
16 | Yale | 8-5 | 11 | -5 | 19 |
17 | Monmouth | 12-3 | 17 | -- | 37 |
18 | Richmond | 11-3 | 22 | +4 | 26 |
19 | Princeton | 9-5 | 12 | -7 | 24 |
20 | Army West Point | 11-4 | 15 | -5 | 17 |
21 | Brown | 9-5 | 21 | -- | 22 |
22 | Boston University | 12-4 | 14 | -8 | 16 |
23 | Air Force | 10-5 | 23 | -- | 31 |
24 | Binghamton | 10-4 | 26 | +2 | 18 |
25 | Penn | 7-5 | 27 | +2 | 20 |
26 | Bryant | 8-7 | 30 | +4 | 39 |
27 | Providence | 9-6 | 25 | -2 | 29 |
28 | Virginia | 8-7 | 24 | -4 | 23 |
29 | Marquette | 6-7 | 28 | -1 | 30 |
30 | Hobart | 8-6 | 35 | +5 | 34 |
31 | Sacred Heart | 9-5 | 34 | +3 | 43 |
32 | Stony Brook | 7-6 | 29 | -3 | 27 |
33 | Robert Morris | 9-6 | 31 | -2 | 41 |
34 | Cornell | 5-8 | 37 | +3 | 32 |
35 | Drexel | 6-7 | 32 | -3 | 33 |
36 | UMBC | 6-7 | 38 | +2 | 28 |
37 | Navy | 6-8 | 36 | -1 | 46 |
38 | Harvard | 6-7 | 39 | +1 | 35 |
39 | Delaware | 7-8 | 33 | -6 | 42 |
40 | Marist | 9-5 | 43 | +3 | 36 |
41 | UMass | 6-7 | 44 | +3 | 25 |
42 | Fairfield | 5-9 | 45 | +3 | 38 |
43 | Holy Cross | 5-10 | 40 | -3 | 51 |
44 | Michigan | 8-6 | 41 | -3 | 21 |
45 | Furman | 7-7 | 42 | -3 | 40 |
46 | Lehigh | 7-7 | 46 | -- | 45 |
47 | Bucknell | 5-8 | 47 | -- | 54 |
48 | Vermont | 5-8 | 48 | -- | 52 |
49 | Colgate | 5-8 | 49 | -- | 49 |
50 | Hartford | 6-8 | 50 | -- | 47 |
51 | St. Joe's | 5-9 | 52 | +1 | 53 |
52 | Georgetown | 4-10 | 51 | -1 | 44 |
53 | Canisius | 6-8 | 55 | +2 | 48 |
54 | Jacksonville | 3-10 | 62 | +8 | 59 |
55 | Mount St. Mary's | 4-10 | 54 | -1 | 56 |
56 | Bellarmine | 4-9 | 56 | -- | 61 |
57 | Wagner | 6-9 | 57 | -- | 66 |
58 | UMass Lowell | 4-12 | 58 | -- | 60 |
59 | Detroit Mercy | 5-10 | 53 | -6 | 57 |
60 | Siena | 3-11 | 59 | -1 | 65 |
61 | Mercer | 5-8 | 61 | -- | 64 |
62 | High Point | 4-10 | 60 | -2 | 55 |
63 | Cleveland State | 5-9 | 68 | +5 | 50 |
64 | Quinnipiac | 2-9 | 63 | -1 | 67 |
65 | Manhattan | 3-11 | 64 | -1 | 68 |
66 | Lafayette | 2-12 | 65 | -1 | 62 |
67 | Dartmouth | 2-11 | 66 | -1 | 63 |
68 | St. John's | 1-13 | 67 | -1 | 58 |
69 | VMI | 2-12 | 69 | -- | 69 |
70 | NJIT | 1-14 | 70 | -- | 70 |
71 | Hampton | 1-7 | 71 | -- | NA |