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Week 8 College Crosse Top 20 Poll, Major Polls Aggregation, & Week 8 Elimination Pool Picks

Albany’s chokehold on the #1 spot continues for a 3rd straight week.

By Eri_Barrister
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Apologies for the delay, just a lot of moving/packing on my end. Anyway, there was a ton of movement in this week’s Top 20 from last week’s Poll and we should see even more volatility as we enter the heart of conference play. Congrats to the Albany Great Danes for repeating as the #1 team in the College Crosse Top 20 for the third week in a row, and for once again capturing all eleven #1 votes in our Poll for another clean sweep of the top spot. Maryland continues to hold tight at number two.

Just to review our pollsters for anyone new to our blog, this year we have Jack Goods (The Buffalo News), Jim Simmons (Troy Nunes), and Caroline Darney (SB Nation & Streaking The Lawn) voting alongside Chris, Marisa, Ryan, Adam, Jake, & myself. Additionally, we asked new writers Dan & Skyler to join us in voting for the remainder of the regular season, which gives us a total of 11 voters in our Poll. I just did a podcast with Jack that went up today which you can find here. You can find my pod with Jim here.

You can find our official College Crosse Top 20 Poll for this week directly below (Numbers within ()s indicate the number of 1st place votes a team received). I’ve included the previous two Top 20 Polls in the columns on the right so you can see the changes side by side. Additionally, you can find the Aggregation graph of all the major polls plus the College Crosse Top 20 right underneath the first graph. Moreover, below the Aggregation graph you can find our ballots for this week’s Poll. (#Transparency)

We had a lot of comments this week from Jake, Skyler, & Dan, so instead of shoving them all into this post, I decided to put them into a separate post, which will go up immediately after this one. Finally, the last graph on this page contains our Week 8 Elimination Pool picks. Chris and Jim are the only players to have been eliminated from the Pool, which leaves only seven players left!

That’s enough banter, here’s our Week 8 College Crosse Top 20 Poll.

Week 8 College Crosse Top 20 Poll

Rank College Crosse - Week 8 College Crosse Top 20 - Week 7 College Crosse Top 20 - Week 6
Rank College Crosse - Week 8 College Crosse Top 20 - Week 7 College Crosse Top 20 - Week 6
1 Albany (11) Albany (11) Albany (11)
2 Maryland Maryland Maryland
3 Denver Duke Duke
4 Yale Notre Dame Notre Dame
5 Johns Hopkins Denver Villanova
6 Rutgers Loyola Denver
7 Villanova Villanova Yale
8 Duke Yale Loyola
9 Notre Dame Johns Hopkins Virginia
10 Syracuse Rutgers Johns Hopkins
11 Robert Morris Lehigh Georgetown
12 Michigan Penn Vermont
13 Loyola Army Syracuse
14 Cornell Virginia Army
15 Vermont Georgetown Rutgers
16 Virginia Robert Morris Robert Morris
17 Penn State Syracuse Lehigh
18 Lehigh Vermont Towson
19 Harvard Cornell Ohio State
20 Bucknell Penn State North Carolina
ACV Army, Penn, Colgate Hofstra, Towson, Bucknell, Michigan Cornell, Princeton, Hofstra

Major College Lacrosse Polls Aggregation

Week 8 Major Polls Aggregation

Rank USILA Coaches Poll College Crosse Inside Lacrosse Lacrosse Magazine Rank
Rank USILA Coaches Poll College Crosse Inside Lacrosse Lacrosse Magazine Rank
1 Albany Albany Albany Albany 1
2 Maryland Maryland Maryland Maryland 2
3 Denver Denver Denver Duke 3
4 Yale Yale Yale Denver 4
5 Duke Johns Hopkins Duke Yale 5
6 Notre Dame Rutgers Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins 6
7 Johns Hopkins Villanova Notre Dame Notre Dame 7
8 Villanova Duke Villanova Villanova 8
9 Syracuse Notre Dame Rutgers Rutgers 9
10 Rutgers Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse 10
11 Loyola Robert Morris Loyola Loyola 11
12 Virginia Michigan Virginia Virginia 12
13 Robert Morris Loyola Cornell Cornell 13
14 Cornell Cornell Robert Morris Penn 14
15 Army Vermont Michigan Michigan 15
16 Bucknell Virginia Vermont Bucknell 16
17 Michigan Penn State Lehigh Harvard 17
18 Vermont Lehigh Bucknell Lehigh 18
19 Lehigh Harvard Harvard Georgetown 19
20 Penn Bucknell Army North Carolina 20

College Crosse Ballots

Week 8 College Crosse Ballots

Rank Adam Epstein Ryan McDonnell Jake Nazar Rank Chris Jastrzembski Jack Goods Marisa Ingemi Rank Safe Fekadu Jim Simmons Caroline Darney Rank Skyler Gilbert Dan Arestia Rank
Rank Adam Epstein Ryan McDonnell Jake Nazar Rank Chris Jastrzembski Jack Goods Marisa Ingemi Rank Safe Fekadu Jim Simmons Caroline Darney Rank Skyler Gilbert Dan Arestia Rank
1 Albany Albany Albany 1 Albany Albany Albany 1 Albany Albany Albany 1 Albany Albany 1
2 Maryland Maryland Maryland 2 Maryland Maryland Maryland 2 Maryland Maryland Maryland 2 Maryland Maryland 2
3 Denver Denver Denver 3 Denver Denver Denver 3 Denver Denver Denver 3 Johns Hopkins Denver 3
4 Yale Yale Yale 4 Yale Yale Johns Hopkins 4 Johns Hopkins Rutgers Yale 4 Denver Yale 4
5 Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins Rutgers 5 Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins Yale 5 Rutgers Yale Duke 5 Duke Hopkins 5
6 Rutgers Villanova Johns Hopkins 6 Villanova Villanova Rutgers 6 Villanova Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins 6 Rutgers Villanova 6
7 Villanova Duke Villanova 7 Duke Rutgers Villanova 7 Duke Notre Dame Rutgers 7 Yale Duke 7
8 Duke Rutgers Duke 8 Rutgers Duke Duke 8 Yale Duke Villanova 8 Villanova Rutgers 8
9 Robert Morris Notre Dame Notre Dame 9 Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame 9 Notre Dame Villanova Notre Dame 9 Notre Dame Notre Dame 9
10 Notre Dame Robert Morris Robert Morris 10 Robert Morris Syracuse Syracuse 10 Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse 10 Syracuse Syracuse 10
11 Cornell Loyola Syracuse 11 Loyola Loyola Loyola 11 Robert Morris Loyola Michigan 11 Michigan Loyola 11
12 Syracuse Cornell Cornell 12 Syracuse Robert Morris Vermont 12 Michigan Michigan Virginia 12 Loyola Robert Morris 12
13 Loyola Syracuse Loyola 13 Cornell Cornell Michigan 13 Cornell Vermont Robert Morris 13 Robert Morris Vermont 13
14 Michigan Vermont Michigan 14 Virginia Michigan Robert Morris 14 Virginia Robert Morris Cornell 14 Cornell Cornell 14
15 Virginia Michigan Virginia 15 Michigan Virginia Cornell 15 Loyola Cornell Loyola 15 Colgate Michigan 15
16 Penn State Harvard Vermont 16 Vermont Vermont Penn State 16 Vermont Virginia Vermont 16 Penn State Lehigh 16
17 Harvard Virginia Harvard 17 Lehigh Penn State Virginia 17 Penn State Lehigh Lehigh 17 Vermont Penn State 17
18 Vermont Penn State Penn State 18 Harvard Lehigh Colgate 18 Lehigh Colgate Penn State 18 Lehigh Virginia 18
19 Lehigh Penn Lehigh 19 Bucknell Harvard Harvard 19 Harvard Penn State Harvard 19 Bucknell Bucknell 19
20 Army Lehigh Bucknell 20 Army West Point Bucknell Lehigh 20 Bucknell Harvard Bucknell 20 Army Harvard 20

Week Elimination Pool Picks

Week 8 Elimination Pool 

Players Adam Epstein Ryan McDonnell Jake Nazar Chris Jastrzembski Safe Fekadu Marisa Ingemi Jack Goods Jim Simmons Caroline Darney
Players Adam Epstein Ryan McDonnell Jake Nazar Chris Jastrzembski Safe Fekadu Marisa Ingemi Jack Goods Jim Simmons Caroline Darney
Week 1 Providence Delaware Delaware Providence Delaware Providence Providence Delaware Providence
Week 2 Army Vermont Army Michigan Army Army Towson Army Army
Week 3 Loyola BU Albany Richmond Loyola Boston Univ. Richmond Albany Loyola
Week 4 Villanova (vs. Drexel) Army Yale MSM (vs. VMI) MSM (vs. VMI) Georgetown (vs. MSM) Georgetown (vs. MSM) Denver MSM (vs. VMI)
Week 5 Cornell (vs. Bing) Princeton (vs NJIT) Georgetown (vs Marist) Delaware (vs. Mercer) Princeton vs. NJIT Virginia (vs. Manhattan) Virginia (vs. Manhattan) Princeton v NJIT Princeton
Week 6 Hopkins (vs. UMBC) Johns Hopkins (vs. UD) Saint Joseph's (vs NJIT) ELIMINATED Hopkins (vs. UMBC) Johns Hopkins (vs. UD) Hopkins (vs. UMBC) Marist Albany
Week 7 Albany (vs. Canisius) Harvard (vs Dartmouth) Vermont Albany (vs. Canisius) Albany (vs. Canisius) Fairfield (vs. NJIT) ELIMINATED Harvard (vs. Dartmouth)
Week 8 Navy (vs. Holy Cross) Cornell (vs Air Force) Cornell (vs Dartmouth) Cornell (vs. Dartmouth) Cornell (vs. Dartmouth) Cornell (vs. Dartmouth) Cornell (vs Dartmouth)

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