4/15 Division III Power Rankings

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All hail, another edition of the DIII Power Rankings!  Unfortunately, this edition was just as confusing as the last one in regards to the black hole.  If only teams could just do what they’re supposed to do.  After what was a quiet week everywhere except the Northeast, there were not too many large changes to the Power Rankings.  However, we always get this out on Tuesday and we don’t take month long breaks.  Power Rankings, below.

New Ranking Previous Rank D3AS D3West D3NE D3 Central
1 CMS 1 CMS CMS CMS CMS
2 Amherst 2 Amherst Amherst Amherst Amherst
3 Wash U 3 Emory Wash U Wash U Wash U
4 Emory 4 Wash U Trinity TX Emory Emory
5 Trinity TX 5 Trinity TX Emory Trinity Tx Trinity TX
6 Johns Hopkins 6 Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins Middlebury Johns Hopkins
7 Middlebury 8 Middlebury Middlebury Johns Hopkins Middlebury
8 Carnegie Mellon 7 Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon
9 Williams 9 Case Western Williams Williams Williams
10 Case Western 10 Williams Case Western Case Western Case Western
11 Bowdoin 11 Bowdoin Bowdoin Bowdoin Bowdoin
12 Pomona 12 Pomona Pomona Pomona Pomona
13 Whitman 14 Whitman Whitman Whitman Whitman
14 Gustavus Adolphus 15 Gustavus Adolphus Kenyon Gustavus Adolphus Kenyon
15 Kenyon 13 Kenyon Gustavus Adolphus Mary Washington Gustavus Adolphus
16 Mary Washington 16 Mary Washington Mary Washington Kenyon Mary Washington
17 Cal Lutheran 20 Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran UT-Tyler
18 UT-Tyler 17 Redlands Redlands UT-Tyler Chicago
19 Chicago 18 Chicago UT-Tyler Chicago Cal Lutheran
20 Redlands 19 UT-Tyler Chicago Redlands Redlands
21 UCSC 21 UCSC UCSC UCSC UCSC
22 Whittier 22 Whittier Whittier Whittier Whittier
23 Tufts 23 DePauw Depauw Tufts Tufts
24 DePauw 24 Tufts Tufts Depauw Depauw
25 Denison 27 Denison Denison Washington & Lee Washington & Lee
26 Washington & Lee 25 Trinity CT Brandeis Denison Denison
27 Brandeis 32 Washington & Lee Trinity CT Brandeis Brandeis
28 Trinity CT 28 Brandeis Washington & Lee Trinity Ct Trinity CT
29 Wesleyan 26 Colby Pacific (OR) Wesleyan Wesleyan
30 Colby 29 Bates Bates Colby Colby
31 Pacific (OR) 33 Skidmore Colby Bates Bates
32 Bates 34 NYU NYU NYU Swarthmore
33 RPI 30 Sewanee Skidmore Skidmore MIT
34 Skidmore 31 Pacific (OR) RPI MIT Rochester
35 Sewanee 35 RPI Rochester RPI NYU
36 Swarthmore 36 Wesleyan UW-Whitewater Pacific (OR) UW-Whitewater
37 MIT 37 Swarthmore Wesleyan Rochester RPI
38 Stevens 38 MIT MIT UW-Whitewater Skidmore
39 NYU 39 Stevens Swarthmore Swarthmore Stevens
40 UW-Whitewater 40 UW-Whitewater Stevens Stevens Pacific (OR)
41 Rochester 41 Rochester Sewanee Sewanee
42 Vassar Vassar Vassar

Notable Moves:

Kenyon, Down 2 Spots – With the loss of Razumovsky for the Lords, this season is starting to take its toll for the lords.  Despite being on the prowl, the Lords have no quality wins in the top 15 this year especially now that Redlands lost easily to CLU.  Kenyon has a big match this weekend against Carnegie Mellon but will be heavy underdogs in a match where two teams are going opposite directions.

California Lutheran, Up 3 Spots – CLU benefits from their domination of Redlands as they continue to move up the rankings.  CLU, despite having many losses this year, still has a few wins that they can point to and are rewarded for having those.  CLU really marks the point where the dreaded “Black Hole” really begins, and they have the honor of being at the top of that area.

Brandeis, Up 5 Spots – Brandeis #DroppedDemGavels this past weekend after beating a worthy NESCAC foe Trinity CT.  This marked Brandeis’s first win over a ranked team in a long time and they have been added to the Power Ranking discussion.  Congratulations to ‘Deis for reaching the top 30 at #27.  Way to represent the UAA as well.

That’s really all the notable moves from a week ago! Again, not a very exciting week as we gear up for the conference tournaments and the eventual NCAA selections.  Keep checking back for more articles and fun facts as we try and get some more activity from y’all.

Oh, and side note – the readers need to watch these videos from Cruz and Tufts.  Let’s get some more team videos, why don’t we?

Tufts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIvnlPNpPk

Cruz – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMlj-Bg6eA&feature=youtu.be

ASouth, out.

4 thoughts on “4/15 Division III Power Rankings”

  1. John
    April 15, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    I don’t see how Chicago is so high. They definitely couldn’t beat Redlands and only beat Denison 5-4. If brandeis beats tufts on Friday I would think brandeis would be higher ranked than them in national rankings and for the uaa tournament.

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    1. D3AtlanticSouth
      April 15, 2014 at 10:10 pm

      Because everyone past #17 has one big loss, and Chicago has beaten CLU. It’s tough when everyone is beating everyone and the CLU win is one of the more impressive ones on the year. That’s whats holding them up. Brandeis has only beaten Colby and Trinity CT. Neither of those wins are close to the CLU win.

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  2. j
    April 15, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    Just curious how Pacific makes it onto the list? Looked over their schedule and despite winning indiv matches against Whitman, none of their wins are over ranked teams. Maybe I just don’t know about teams in the west that aren’t ranked in the top 30 to begin with. Just seems like teams below them have better wins.

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    1. D3West
      April 15, 2014 at 5:11 pm

      I basically put them on the list because they got an indirect win over Rochester via Chapman, so I finally had a reason to put another West region team on the list, and then I whined until the other guys drank the Kool Aid.

      Unfortunately, the Boxers won’t play any of those teams, but I think they could legitimately beat Colby, RPI, Swarthmore, Sewanee

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