Ohio State Remains Unanimous #1 in February 13th AVCA Polls

  0 Braden Keith | February 13th, 2017 | College - Men's Indoor, Conference Carolinas, Division III, EIVA, Independents, Men's Commitments, MIVA, MPSF, News, Rankings

The undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes remained the unanimous #1 team in the NCAA in the latest AVCA rankings after receiving all 24 1st place votes. The Buckeyes had only ranked #1 in the AVCA polls 3 times in their history coming into the 2017 season (dating back to 1986). After winning last year’s NCAA title, however, they’ve now done so for 8 consecutive weeks going back to last season’s final ranking.

The top 3, in fact, remained identical, with Long Beach State at 2 and BYU at 3 – though Long Beach State’s margin over their conference rivals grew from 4 to 21 points. Mathematically, either 22 or 23 voters out of 24 chose LBSU as the #2 team in the country.

The first shakeup came as Hawaii used wins over UC San Diego and Cal Baptist to jump UCLA, who was 1-1 on the week. The 2nd-6th placed teams in the latest vote all represent the MPSF, thanks to Stanford jumping 2 spots to #6 after handing UCLA one of those wins.

For the second-straight week, the same 15 teams occupied the top 15, and aside from Stanford, no team’s rankings shifted by more than 1 position in the latest polls.

Full February 13th (After Week 6) Polls are Below:

RANK SCHOOL POINTS RECORD PREVIOUS
1 Ohio State (24) 360 13-0 1
2 Long Beach State 334 11-2 2
3 BYU 313 10-2 3
4 Hawai’i 285 12-2 5
5 UCLA 262 10-4 4
6 Stanford 222 8-4 8
7 Lewis 215 9-3 6
8 UC Irvine 187 9-5 7
9 Pepperdine 172 5-4 9
10 Loyola-Chicago 147 7-4 10
11 Ball State 129 11-2 11
12 UC Santa Barbara 90 6-7 12
13 Penn State 76 8-4 14
14 CSUN 49 9-5 13
15 George Mason 262 5-5 15

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Grand Canyon 5; UC San Diego 5

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