The College Crosse Top 20 saw perhaps it’s biggest shake-up of the season so far, as the #1 Maryland Terrapins and #2 Albany Great Danes both suffered losses just a few hours apart from each other on Sunday. This has caused a big restructuring of the Top 10, as have several other notable results that saw ranked teams fall this weekend.
The new #1 in the College Crosse Top 20 is the Yale Bulldogs, coming off a decisive and dominant win over previously #2 Albany. It’s not a unanimous #1 though, as the Duke Blue Devils received 3 number one votes - Yale received six - and now move into the #2 spot. Maryland and Albany fell from #1 and #2 to #4 and #6 respectively. Denver moved up a spot to #3, while Cornell entered the Top 5 for the first time all year at #5. Other upsets such as Syracuse’s loss to Navy saw the Orange drop from 10th to a tie for 12th with Penn State, and Notre Dame’s loss to North Carolina saw the Irish fall out of the Top 20 for the first time all season.
Just to review our pollsters for anyone new to our blog, this year we have Jack Goods (The Buffalo News) and Caroline Darney (SB Nation & Streaking The Lawn) voting alongside Chris, Ryan, Adam, Safe, and 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 9 voters in our Poll.
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). Moreover, below the official Top 20 graph you can find our ballots for this week’s Poll.
College Crosse Top 20
Rank | College Crosse Top 20 |
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Rank | College Crosse Top 20 |
1 | Yale (6) |
2 | Duke (3) |
3 | Denver |
4 | Maryland |
5 | Cornell |
6 | Albany |
7 | Loyola |
8 | Johns Hopkins |
9 | Rutgers |
10 | Navy |
11 | Bucknell |
T12 | Penn State |
T12 | Syracuse |
14 | UMass |
15 | Virginia |
16 | Georgetown |
17 | St. Joseph's |
18 | Villanova |
19 | Robert Morris |
20 | Ohio State |
College Crosse Ballots
Rank | Adam Epstein | Ryan McDonnell | Jake Nazar | Chris Jastrzembski | Jack Goods | Safe Fekadu | Caroline Darney | Skyler Gilbert | Dan Arestia |
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Rank | Adam Epstein | Ryan McDonnell | Jake Nazar | Chris Jastrzembski | Jack Goods | Safe Fekadu | Caroline Darney | Skyler Gilbert | Dan Arestia |
1 | Yale | Duke | Yale | Yale | Yale | Duke | Duke | Yale | Yale |
2 | Duke | Yale | Duke | Duke | Duke | Maryland | Yale | Duke | Duke |
3 | Denver | Denver | Maryland | Denver | Denver | Yale | Albany | Denver | Denver |
4 | Loyola | Maryland | Denver | Cornell | Cornell | Denver | Maryland | Albany | Cornell |
5 | Maryland | Albany | Albany | Maryland | Loyola | Johns Hopkins | Denver | Cornell | Albany |
6 | Cornell | Cornell | Cornell | Albany | Maryland | Cornell | Johns Hopkins | Maryland | Maryland |
7 | Albany | Rutgers | Johns Hopkins | Loyola | Albany | Rutgers | Loyola | Loyola | Loyola |
8 | Johns Hopkins | Loyola | Rutgers | Johns Hopkins | Johns Hopkins | Albany | Cornell | Johns Hopkins | Hopkins |
9 | Rutgers | Johns Hopkins | Loyola | Rutgers | Rutgers | Bucknell | Rutgers | Rutgers | Rutgers |
10 | Navy | Navy | Navy | Navy | Navy | Loyola | Virginia | Navy | Navy |
11 | Bucknell | Syracuse | Bucknell | Bucknell | Bucknell | Navy | Navy | Penn State | Bucknell |
12 | Penn State | Bucknell | Syracuse | Penn State | Penn State | UMass | Syracuse | Syracuse | Penn State |
13 | Syracuse | Penn State | Penn State | Syracuse | Syracuse | Penn State | UMass | Massachusetts | Syracuse |
14 | Virginia | UMass | Virginia | UMass | UMass | Georgetown | Bucknell | Bucknell | UVA |
15 | UMass | Virginia | Robert Morris | Virginia | Virginia | Syracuse | Georgetown | Virginia | UMass |
16 | Georgetown | St. Joseph's | UMass | Georgetown | Georgetown | Robert Morris | Penn State | Ohio State | Georgetown |
17 | Villanova | Georgetown | Villanova | Villanova | Robert Morris | Virginia | St. Joe's | Saint Joseph's | St Joe's |
18 | St. Joseph's | Robert Morris | Georgetown | Notre Dame | Villanova | St. Joe's | Villanova | Georgetown | Villanova |
19 | Notre Dame | Villanova | St. Joseph's | Saint Joseph's | Notre Dame | Villanova | Robert Morris | Colgate | Ohio State |
20 | Ohio State | Notre Dame | Ohio State | Robert Morris | Saint Joseph's | Ohio State | Ohio State | Villanova | Notre Dame |