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2021 IWLCA Division III Preseason Coaches Poll
2019 NCAA Champion Middlebury College swept all 25 first place votes to secure the top spot in the Division III Coaches Poll. The Panthers are followed by Tufts, Franklin & Marshall, Washington and Lee, and Gettysburg, to round out the top five. The NESCAC placed a total of seven teams in the top-25, more than any other conference.
The 2021 season is expected to begin in late February, though many schools have not published their competition schedules yet. The 2020 season ended when the NCAA announced that it would cancel spring sports championships due to the COVID-19 public health threat on March 12, 2020.
Rank |
Institution |
Points |
FPV |
Record |
2020 Final Poll |
1 |
Middlebury |
625 |
25 |
0-0 |
1 |
2 |
Tufts |
598 |
0 |
0-0 |
2 |
3 |
Franklin & Marshall |
551 |
0 |
0-0 |
3 |
4 |
Washington and Lee |
536 |
0 |
0-0 |
4 |
5 |
Gettysburg |
513 |
0 |
0-0 |
6 |
6 |
Wesleyan (CT) |
504 |
0 |
0-0 |
5 |
7 |
Salisbury |
480 |
0 |
0-0 |
7 |
8 |
Amherst |
448 |
0 |
0-0 |
9 |
9 |
York (PA) |
444 |
0 |
0-0 |
8 |
10 |
Catholic |
374 |
0 |
0-0 |
10 |
11 |
TCNJ |
363 |
0 |
0-0 |
11 |
T-12 |
Bowdoin |
345 |
0 |
0-0 |
13 |
T-12 |
St. John Fisher |
345 |
0 |
0-0 |
12 |
14 |
Mary Washington |
291 |
0 |
0-0 |
14 |
15 |
Ithaca |
261 |
0 |
0-0 |
15 |
16 |
Colby |
258 |
0 |
0-0 |
16 |
17 |
Brockport |
211 |
0 |
0-0 |
17 |
18 |
Colorado College |
186 |
0 |
0-0 |
18 |
19 |
William Smith |
175 |
0 |
0-0 |
19 |
20 |
Denison |
138 |
0 |
0-0 |
22 |
21 |
SUNY Geneseo |
128 |
0 |
0-0 |
20 |
22 |
Trinity (CT) |
85 |
0 |
0-0 |
21 |
23 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
66 |
0 |
0-0 |
23 |
24 |
SUNY Cortland |
61 |
0 |
0-0 |
24 |
25 |
Messiah |
29 |
0 |
0-0 |
25 |
The first weekly IWLCA Division II Coaches Poll of the 2021 season will be published on March 1, 2021.