Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 12/22/09
Haverford College is ranked No. 4 and Cabrini College is No. 10 in the Lacrosse Magazine Preseason rankings for Division III.
Haverford College has advanced to the NCAA tournament each of the past two years and last year won its first regular-season Centennial Conference championship. Cabrini has won nine straight Colonial States Athletic Conference titles.
Defending champion Cortland is ranked No. 1 in Division III, followed by Stevenson and Gettysburg.
In Division I, Duke is ranked No 1, ahead of two-time defending champion Syracuse and Virginia.
NCAA Division I Men
1. Duke
2. Syracuse
3. Virginia
4. North Carolina
5. Johns Hopkins
6. Cornell
7. Princeton
8. Maryland
9. Hofstra
10. Notre Dame
11. Harvard
12. UMBC
13. Navy
14. Georgetown
15. Brown
16. Loyola
17. Massachusetts
18. Stony Brook
19. Denver
20. Bucknell
Preseason Player of the Year: Ned Crotty, Duke
NCAA Division II Men
1. C.W. Post
3. NYIT
4. Merrimack
5. Limestone
6. Mercyhurst
7. Dowling
8. Mars Hill
9. St. Leo
10. Molloy
Preseason Player of the Year: Drew Bezek, Le Moyne
NCAA Division III Men
1. Cortland
2. Stevenson
3. Gettysburg
4. Haverford College
5. Salisbury
6. Denison
7. Roanoke
8. Middlebury
9. Western New England
10. Cabrini College
11. Tufts
12. Washington & Lee
13. Wesleyan
14. Ithaca
15. Lynchburg
16. St. Lawrence
17. Nazareth
18. Washington College
19. Geneseo
20. St. John Fisher
Preseason Player of the Year: Steve Kazimer, Stevenson
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