Four Teams Split First Place Votes in Division III Poll

  0 Wendy Mayer | September 12th, 2018 | College - Women's Indoor, NCAA D3, News

Calvin (7-0) held down the No. 1 spot for the second straight week and received 54 of the 70 first place votes. Colorado College (8-0) checked in at No. 2 for the second straight week and garnered 13 first place votes.

Defending champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Wittenberg and Johnson & Wales (R.I.) rounded out the top five. CMS moved up a spot to No. 3 and earned one first place vote after a 4-0 weekend at Trinity University. Wittenberg dropped a spot to No. 4 but was picked first by two voters after a 2-1 showing at the ASICS Invitational. Johnson & Wales claimed the No. 5 spot, shifting up one place from last week with wins over Colby-Sawyer and St. Joseph (Conn.).

Just one team dropped out of the Top 10 as Illinois Wesleyan fell one spot from 10 to 11 despite rebounding from a midweek loss to Washington-St. Louis with three wins at the Holiday Inn Express Classic. Pacific Lutheran checked in at No. 10, up two places from last week’s No. 12 position with a 3-1 mark including a 3-0 loss to No. 2 Colorado College in the weekend finale.

Big moves happened beyond the top 10 however with Washington-St. Louis vaulting up seven spots from 19 to 12 and Thomas More leaping nine spots from 23 to 14 with an 8-0 mark. Wash U went 4-0 on the week at the Bear Invite, including a four-set win over then-No. 13 Carthage. The Bears will be tested this week, however, with matchups against No. 15 Cal Lutheran, No. 13 Juniata and No. 3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

Thomas More went 4-0 on Week 2, topping Bluffton, Ohio Northern, Heidelberg and DePauw.

Falling in the rankings were Carthage (from 13 to 19) and Northwestern (Minn.) (from 14 to 21).

Newcomers on Week 2 were Christopher Newport (5-2) and Texas-Tyler (6-1).

Rank School (First-Place Votes) Total Points Adjusted 2018 Record Previous Week
1 Calvin (54) 1731 7-0 1
2 Colorado College (13) 1678 8-0 2
3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (1) 1571 7-1 4
4 Wittenberg (2) 1472 5-1 3
5 Johnson & Wales (R.I.) 1440 5-1 6
6 Emory 1319 7-1 8
7 Trinity (Texas) 1261 7-2 5
8 Ithaca 1249 5-1 7
9 Gustavus Adolphus 1168 7-1 9
10 Pacific Lutheran 927 7-1 12
11 Illinois Wesleyan 855 5-2 10
12 Washington-St. Louis 830 6-2 19
13 Juniata 735 3-3 15
14 Thomas More 673 8-0 23
15 Cal Lutheran 663 6-2 11
16 Johns Hopkins 655 5-0 16
17 Hope 618 7-0 20
18 MIT 505 8-0 17
19 Carthage 499 5-3 13
20 Ohio Northern 395 6-2 18
21 Northwestern (Minn.) 390 5-3 14
22 Christopher Newport 349 5-2 NR
23 Texas-Tyler 218 6-1 NR
24 Berry 205 4-2 25
25 Swarthmore 166 7-1 22

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Chicago 141; Mary Hardin-Baylor 132; Texas-Dallas 103; Southwestern (Texas) 102; Wisconsin-Eau Claire 88; Muhlenberg 77; Millikin 60; Carnegie-Mellon 59; Augsburg 57; Wesleyan (Conn.) 53; Wisconsin-Whitewater 52; Chapman 51; St. Thomas (Minn.) 36; Clarkson 31; Wisconsin-La Crosse 29; Eastern 25; Stevens 22; Mary Washington 17; Aurora 9; Tufts 5; Marymount 4

Eleven teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 21 combined points.

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Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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