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Middlebury Is Unanimous #1 in Division III Preseason Poll

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

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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.