Navy Men, Harvard Women Lead Mid-Major Ranks

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.