The first NCAA regional rankings of the 2011-12 season have been released. For women’s rankings, scroll down.
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The first record is in-region record, followed by overall.
Men’s rankings
Atlantic Region
1 Staten Island 15-2 16-4
2 William Paterson 19-3 19-3
3 St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 17-1 17-2
4 Richard Stockton 14-6 15-7
5 New Jersey City 14-4 16-5
East Region
1 Hartwick 19-2 20-2
2 Oswego State 17-2 17-3
3 New York University 17-2 17-2
4 Hobart 15-4 16-4
5 Medaille 19-2 20-2
6 Nazareth 15-5 15-7
Great Lakes
1 Hope 12-0 20-1
2 Wittenberg 15-3 17-4
3 Wooster 16-3 18-3
4 Ohio Wesleyan 15-5 16-5
5 Wabash 13-6 15-6
6 Capital 13-6 14-7
Mid-Atlantic
1 Cabrini 21-0 21-1
2 Keystone 17-3 17-3
3 Lycoming 15-4 17-5
4 Mary Washington 14-4 15-6
5 Franklin & Marshall 19-2 19-2
6 St. Mary’s (Md.) 14-5 16-6
7 Messiah 13-6 14-6
8 Misericordia 15-6 15-6
9 Alvernia 13-6 15-6
Midwest
1 Washington U. 15-4 15-5
2 Transylvania 18-1 19-2
3 Lake Forest 17-2 18-2
4 Wheaton (Ill.) 15-4 17-4
5 North Central (Ill.) 14-4 15-6
6 Illinois Wesleyan 14-5 16-5
7 Edgewood 14-5 16-5
8 Concordia (Wis.) 15-4 16-4
Northeast
1 Amherst 18-2 20-2
2 Middlebury 18-1 20-1
3 Rhode Island College 16-4 16-4
4 Western Connecticut 17-4 17-4
5 WPI 16-4 16-4
6 Eastern Connecticut 17-4 17-4
7 MIT 20-1 20-1
8 Keene State 14-3 17-4
9 Wesleyan (Conn.) 17-4 17-5
10 Tufts 16-6 16-6
11 Becker 16-4 16-4
12 Albertus Magnus 20-1 20-1
South
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 19-1 20-1
2 Virginia Wesleyan 17-2 18-2
3 Birmingham-Southern 17-1 20-1
4 Randolph-Macon 14-3 17-4
5 Christopher Newport 15-4 18-4
6 Emory 16-4 16-4
7 Guilford 14-5 15-6
8 Hardin-Simmons 14-5 16-5
West
1 UW-River Falls 16-3 16-5
2 UW-Stevens Point 16-4 18-4
3 UW-Whitewater 19-2 19-2
4 Whitworth 17-2 18-3
5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 13-1 19-1
6 St. Thomas 14-6 15-6
7 Gustavus Adolphus 14-5 15-5
8 Dubuque 15-3 16-6
9 Whitman 13-6 15-6
Regional score reporting forms (including SOS) below:
Atlantic | East | Great Lakes | Middle Atlantic | Midwest | Northeast | South | West
Women’s
The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.
Atlantic
1 Kean 17-2 20-3
2 William Paterson 19-1 21-1
3 Mary Washington 19-0 21-0
4 Mount St. Mary (N.Y.) 17-3 18-3
5 York (Pa.) 17-3 17-3
6 Catholic 16-4 18-4
Central
1 Chicago 20-0 20-0
2 UW-Stevens Point 18-2 19-3
3 Washington U. 15-3 16-4
4 Illinois Wesleyan 12-5 16-5
5 UW-Eau Claire 17-4 17-5
6 Carthage 15-4 17-4
East
1 Rochester (N.Y.) 16-3 17-3
2 Ithaca 17-2 18-4
3 Hartwick 18-2 18-3
4 St. Lawrence 17-3 17-4
5 Oneonta State 14-4 14-6
6 Buffalo State 16-2 18-2
Great Lakes
1 DePauw 19-1 20-1
2 Mount Union 18-1 20-1
3 Calvin 14-1 20-1
4 Franklin 18-1 20-1
5 Ohio Northern 18-3 18-3
6 St. Vincent 17-3 17-4
Mid-Atlantic
1 Juniata 20-0 21-1
2 Lebanon Valley 19-2 19-2
3 King’s 17-2 18-3
4 Johns Hopkins 17-2 19-2
5 Messiah 15-3 16-4
6 Muhlenberg 15-5 15-5
Northeast
1 Amherst 20-0 22-0
2 Rhode Island College 19-2 19-2
3 Babson 17-2 18-2
4 Tufts 18-4 18-5
5 Williams 16-4 18-4
6 University of New England 17-4 17-4
7 Southern Maine 15-5 16-5
8 Connecticut College 15-4 16-4
9 Keene State 14-4 14-5
10 Colby 15-5 15-5
South
1 Louisiana College 17-1 18-2
2 Centre 18-1 19-1
3 Howard Payne 17-3 18-3
4 Christopher Newport 17-4 17-4
5 Eastern Mennonite 17-2 18-2
6 Piedmont 15-3 18-3
West
1 George Fox 16-0 21-0
2 St. Thomas 20-1 20-1
3 Lewis and Clark 12-2 20-2
4 Gustavus Adolphus 17-4 17-4
5 Wartburg 16-5 16-5
6 Simpson 13-5 16-5
Regional score reporting forms (including SOS) below:
Atlantic | Central | East | Great Lakes | Mid-Atlantic | Northeast | South | West
This was the first question on Twitter:
mckay_adam: @d3hoops Why is F&M 15th overall but 5th regionally? What am I missing?
On checking the links above, F&M’s strength of schedule (.449) is 53rd of 61 Mid-Atlantic teams.
Who votes on the regional ranking or is it a computer system?
I am confused by the Northeast Reankings..
1. Albertus Magnus is 20-1 with victories over Becker and Western Connecticut; both of whom are ranked higher. I understand SOS, but sometimes you have to look at talent as well. The GNAC is a weak conference, but Albertus has one loss on a last second shot.
2. MIT is 20-1 and ranked 7; huh????? How is West Conn and East Conn and RIC ranked above them? I know no one expected MIT to be this good; but they are!
3. Tufts? I don’t care who they lost to; they have 6 losses. They should not be listed on any rankings..
It is a vote but the numbers generated by the computer are pretty heavily used. There’s a coach or AD from each conference. I am away from my desk, however, and can’t tell you who is on the Northeast committee.
I dont care about strength of schedule in this case. Albertus Magnus beat West Conn and Becker both. I know Albertus’s conference is weak this year but your trying to tell me that NECC that Becker is in is that much better? And right now Albertus is ranked 24th in entire country! The only teams that have the right to even be ahead of them in the NorthEast Rankings are Middlebury, MIT, and Amherst. You’re essentially saying that a team can be ranked higher nationally but not higher in their region. Strangest thing I have seen in a while. What else do these kids at AMC have to do to get a little respect? Keep winning and winning I guess, which is what they will do. Nobody knows how good they are because nobody cares. Its all about the NESCAC and Little East in this region. Will see what happends when the tournament rolls around.
Here is the NE Committee:
Dave Lindberg, Worcester State College, chair
Larry Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Culpo, Castleton State College
Tom Devitt, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Travis Farley, Fitchbug State University
Bill Geitner, Eastern Connecticut State University
David Hixon, Amherst College
Aaron Galetta, Lasell College
Ed Sliva, Elms College
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