The latest USTFCCCA Division 1 National Coaches Polls were released this morning, with big moves up the ranks by a pair of Ivy League schools.
On the men’s side, Columbia moved up 22 spots to No. 8 after besting a talented field at the Notre Dame Invitational. Among the teams that Columbia beat in South Bend were No. 9 Tulsa and No. 10 Princeton.
The top-five remained unchanged, with Oklahoma State receiving all 12 first-place votes for the second straight week. Following the top-ranked Cowboys were Colorado, Northern Arizona, Oregon and BYU. Portland jumped a spot to No. 7, UCLA slid nine spots to No. 21 and Boise State broke into the top 30 at No. 19 after a runner-up finish to Oregon at this past weekend’s Bill Dellinger Invitational. Rounding out the top 30 were Pac-12 representatives Stanford and Arizona State.
The Oregon women dropped one spot to No. 6 after finishing second at the Bill Dellinger Invitational to Washington, who jumped three spots to No. 4. Providence received 11 of the 12 first-place votes, with the other vote going to No. 3 Arizona. Florida State remained at No. 2. The Pac-12 boasts five women squads in the top 12, as Stanford and Colorado chime in at No. 11 and No. 12.
The biggest riser in the polls for the women was Dartmouth, which went from unranked to No. 13 after a runner-up performance to No. 5 Georgetown at Lehigh’s Paul Short Run. It’s the first time Dartmouth has been nationally ranked since 2002.