The men of the US Naval Academy and Harvard University women lead the CSCAA/CollegeSwimming.com Division Mid-Major rankings released February 16th. The list is the final ranking prior to the 2010 Conference Championship season. A post-championship ranking will be released in March.Navy extended their lead atop the latest ranking, and even collected enough points to rank 26th in the CSCAA/CollegeSwimming.com Division I Coaches' Poll. Harvard displaced Miami (OH) for the top spot in the women's rankings. Harvard has captured four consecutive dual meet titles while the Midshipmen have won the past two.
Teams have wrapped up their Dual Meet season and now enter the championship portion of the year culminating in the March 18-20 NCAA Division I Women's Championships in West Lafayette, Indiana and the March 25-27 NCAA Division Men's Championships in Columbus, Ohio.
| Men's Rankings |
Women's Rankings | |||||||
| 1 | 1 |
Navy | 243.8 |  |
1 | Harvard |
248.6 | |
| 2 |
2 |
UC-Davis |
236.1 |
2 |
1 |
Miami Ohio | 246.6 |
|
| 3 |
4 | Denver | 231.4 |
3 |
2 |
Boston University | 244.1 |
|
| 4 |
4 |
Eastern Michigan | 230.5 |
4 |
10 |
Navy | 236.0 |
|
| 5 |
6 |
Boston University | 227.4 |
5 |
6 |
Florida Gulf Coast | 234.5 |
|
| 6 |
7 |
Cleveland State | 224.4 | 6 |
3 |
Towson | 234.1 | |
| 7 |
5 |
Missouri State | 223.3 |
7 |
4 |
Oakland | 234.0 |
|
| 8 |
9 |
UNC – Wilmington | 222.5 | 8 |
5 |
UW – Milwaukee | 233.5 |
|
| 9 |
NR |
CSU-Bakersfield |
224.8 | 9 |
9 |
Denver | 233.1 |
|
| 10 |
10 |
Massachusetts | 222.0 |
10 |
7 |
Western Kentucky | 231.7 | |
| 11 |
8 |
Western Kentucky | 221.9 | 11 |
8 |
Eastern Michigan | 231.4 |
|
| 12 |
10 |
Cornell |
219.1 | 12 |
11 |
North Texas | 231.1 |
|
| 13 |
NR |
UW – Milwaukee | 218.1 |
13 |
12 |
UNC – Wilmington | 229.8 |
|
| 14 |
17 |
Delaware | 217.6 |
14 |
14 |
Missouri State | 227.9 |
|
| 15 |
12 |
New Orleans | 217.3 |
15 |
22 |
Cal Poly | 227.4 |
|
| 16 |
13 |
Oakland | 216.4 | 16 |
NR |
Davidson |
227.2 | |
| 17 |
14 |
UC-Santa Barbara | 216.1 |
17 |
13 |
Buffalo | 226.4 |
|
| 18 |
NR |
Cal Poly |
214.6 |
18 |
18 |
Delaware | 225.1 |
|
| 19 |
14 |
UMBC | 213.8 | 19 |
15 |
UC-Davis | 224.2 | |
| 20 |
16 |
LaSalle | 213.6 |
20 |
16 |
Illinois State |
221.6 |
|
| 21 |
12 |
Southern Illinois | 210.8 | 21 |
17 |
William and Mary | 221.0 | |
| 22 |
19 |
Buffalo | 209.9 |
22 |
21 |
Massachusetts | 220.9 |
|
| 23 |
20 |
St. Bonaventure | 209.3 |
23 |
19 |
UMBC | 220.1 |
|
| 24 |
21 |
Bucknell | 206.7 | 24 |
20 |
Bucknell |
219.1 |
|
| 25 |
22 |
William and Mary | 206.1 | 25 |
NR |
Cornell |
216.7 | |
| Also Receiving Votes |
Also Receiving Votes | |||||||
| Miami
Ohio, Binghamton, Loyola, Dartmouth, Duquesne, Marist, Evansville,
Niagara, South Dakota State, Davidson, Dartmouth, Drexel, Centenary,
South Dakota State, Vermont |
Cleveland State, Evansville, Toledo, Vermont, Southern Illinois, New Mexico State, South Dakota State, La Salle, Marist, San Diego, Duquesne, Binghamton, New Orleans, Loyola, Niagara, Dartmouth, Towson, Saint Francis (PA), Drexel, Centenary | |||||||
Since 2002, CollegeSwimming.com has produced an objective ranking system for Mid-Major, Division I swimming programs. Initiated by Clark Campbell, the poll has been used to provide attention to teams that were often targeted for elimination ostensibly for Title IX or budgetary reasons. Unlike basketball and Division I FBS football where scholarships are awarded as full grants-in-aid, swimming is considered an "equivalency" sport by the NCAA, meaning scholarships can be divided among a number of student-athletes. CollegeSwimming.com's definition of a mid-major institution takes this into account. Though the lineup has changed, institutions eligible for the CollegeSwimming.com poll are those institutions that a) are not members of a BCS conference, Mountain West Conference, or Western Athletic Conference; or b) provide fewer than one-half of the allowable scholarships under the NCAA rules.
