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UNC Claims Top Spot in Division I Preseason Poll

By IWLCA Admin, 02/01/21, 1:00PM EST

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2021 IWLCA Division I Preseason Coaches Poll

 

The North Carolina Tar Heels claimed the top spot in the preseason IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll, after finishing the abbreviated 2020 season in the same position. Carolina collected all 25 first place votes in the poll. The ACC claimed the top three spots in the poll, as Notre Dame landed in second and Syracuse checked in at number three. Loyola and Northwestern were selected third and fourth to round out the top five. The ACC landed seven teams in the top-25 rankings, the most of any conference, while the Big Ten had four schools listed and the Ivy League and Pac-12 each had three.

The 2021 season opens the weekend of February 12-14, headlined by #10 James Madison at top-ranked North Carolina on Saturday, February 13. This weekend marks the first lacrosse action since the 2020 season ended when the NCAA announced that it would cancel the 2020 spring sports championships due to the COVID-19 public health threat on March 12, 2020.

 

Rank

Institution

Points

FPV

 Record

2020 Final Poll

1

North Carolina

625

25

0-0

1

2

Notre Dame

585

0

0-0

2

3

Syracuse

563

0

0-0

4

4

Loyola Maryland

533

0

0-0

3

5

Northwestern

529

0

0-0

6

6

Stony Brook

495

0

0-0

5

7

Maryland

471

0

0-0

11

8

Florida

452

0

0-0

8

9

Michigan

395

0

0-0

12

10

James Madison

360

0

0-0

14

11

Denver

306

0

0-0

16

12

Boston College

305

0

0-0

20

13

Southern California

295

0

0-0

7

14

Richmond

288

0

0-0

17

15

Duke

274

0

0-0

18

16

Virginia

255

0

0-0

15

17

Pennsylvania

236

0

0-0

9

18

Virginia Tech

179

0

0-0

23

19

Dartmouth

160

0

0-0

10

20

Massachusetts

140

0

0-0

21

T-21

Navy

139

0

0-0

19

T-21

Penn State

139

0

0-0

22

23

Stanford

135

0

0-0

24

24

Colorado

98

0

0-0

25

25

Princeton

55

0

0-0

13

 

The first weekly IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll of the 2021 season will be published on February 22, 2021.