Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 1/31/17
After capturing the 2016 NCAA Championship, the University of North Carolina debuts at the top of the IWLCA Division I Coaches Pre-Season Poll, claiming 18 of the 20 available first place votes. The Tar Heels beat out Maryland for the top spot, and that duo is followed by Florida, Southern California and Syracuse in the top five. North Carolina and Florida have an early clash scheduled for February 11, while Syracuse opens with #17 Boston College the same day, and Southern California tangles with Northwestern (#9) on February 18. The ACC again looks like the toughest conference in the country with seven of their eight members landing in the pre-season top 20.
Rank Institution Points FPV Record
1 North Carolina 398 18 0-0
2 Maryland 379 2 0-0
3 Florida 341 0 0-0
4 Southern California 326 0 0-0
5 Syracuse 321 0 0-0
6 Stony Brook 295 0 0-0
7 Penn State 286 0 0-0
8 Notre Dame 260 0 0-0
9 Northwestern 235 0 0-0
10 Duke 201 0 0-0
11 Penn 190 0 0-0
12 Stanford 176 0 0-0
13 Princeton 136 0 0-0
14 Virginia 126 0 0-0
15 Cornell 109 0 0-0
16 Massachusetts 101 0 0-0
17 Boston College 76 0 0-0
18 Louisville 70 0 0-0
19 Towson 67 0 0-0
20 Johns Hopkins 65 0 0-0
Receiving Votes Loyola (MD) 0-0
The first regular season poll for the 2017 season will be published on February 20.
