Men's Division I Top 20 Poll
March 23, 2009
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Although they remain 1-2 in this week's CaseyPowellLacrosse.com / JustLacrosse.com Division I Poll, the combination of Virginia's thrilling win over Hopkins and Syracuse's seemingly lackluster performance against Binghamton convinced our last holdout that Virginia should indeed be a unanimous #1. And except for the UMass debut at #19, and Ivy's Harvard and Brown moving up three spots each, to #13 and #14 respectively, and Colgate up two to #16, there was very little change in the D-I Top 20.

Paying the price for those jumps were Army, Hobart and Georgetown, all moving down this week, and Albany who dropped out completely to make room for their 100-mile distant neighbor UMass.

In an interesting sidenote, the point totals show each of the top nine teams has a solid hold on their position, while Hofstra just edged out UNC for the tenth spot. It seems after that, though, there is a huge drop off in confidence in the rest of the field.

Our poll is voted on by a group of highly respected and knowledgeable individuals from the upstate lacrosse community. Links to our Pre-season Poll, as well as collective look at our group of voters can be found at our Poll Archives page.

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Rank
Team Points First Place Last

1
Virginia 340 17 1

2
Syracuse 323 2

3
Cornell 293
2

4
Notre Dame 282
4

5
Princeton 263
5

6
Maryland 243
7

7
Duke 231
6

8
UMBC 216
8

9
Hopkins 208
9t

10
Hofstra 176
11

11
North Carolina 175
9t

12
Loyola 121
12

13
Harvard 120
16

14
Brown 110
17

15
Navy 94
13

16
Colgate 85
18t

17
Hobart 75
15

18
Georgetown 63
14

19
Umass 38
n/a

20
Army 34
18t

Others receiving votes: Albany, Villanova, Denver, Ohio St., Bucknell, Penn St., St. Johns