College Crosse Top 20 Poll for April 30, 2018

It may not have been last week’s shake-up that saw both #1 and #2 go down, but this was another wild and crazy week in college lacrosse, and it led to more changes in the College Crosse Top 20, both inside the Top 10 and outside of it.

Yale remained #1 this week after their rivalry victory over Harvard. They gained two more #1 votes, for a total of eight, but still aren’t our unanimous #1. The Maryland Terrapins, who moved up to #2 in light of Duke’s loss to Notre Dame, also received a #1 vote. Duke wasn’t the only Top 5 team to fall, as Cornell got blown out in their rivalry game against Princeton and tumbled. Denver took care of business to remain in the #3 spot, and Albany and Loyola follow them at #4 and #5 respectively. There was a big restructuring outside the Top 10, where Navy, Bucknell, Penn State, and Syracuse - ranked 10-T12th last week - all suffered losses and fell backwards, Penn State dropping out of the Top 20. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s win in the ACC Tournament Blatant RPI Booster saw the Irish go from outside the Top 20 into the #8 spot. Ohio State’s big win over Rutgers got the Buckeyes all the way up to #12 in this week’s poll.

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.