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UCSD Kicks off 2014 Atop Division II Rankings

With endless sunshine and consistently warm weather San Diego is a popular winter training spot for college teams.  NCAA rules require those teams to compete in a meet, many of which are largely exhibitions.  Not so for UC-San Diego which swam multi-team meets that lifted the Tritons to the top spot of the Endless Pools/Swimming.com Division II Top 25.  UCSD easily out-distanced Wayne State on the women's side and Lindenwood on the men's. 

The rest of the women's top ten included Queens University of Charlotte, Grand Valley, Delta State, CSU-East Bay, Lindenwood, West Florida, Lewis and Indianapolis.  For the men's, Grand Valley ranked third, followed by Wayne State, Indianapolis, Queens, Southern Connecticut, Missouri S&T, Florida Tech and Delta State. 

Only thirty-five of the eighty-two Division II programs swam qualifying meets during the December 18-January 12 ranking period.  Those absent from the rankings include several traditional Division II powers - namely Drury, West Chester, Wingate, Tampa and Nova Southeastern. were idle or swam off lineups.

The Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com is the only objective ranking of swimming for NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, NAIA, and NJCAA.   The rankings utilize a point system based on NCAA time standards, predicted qualifying times and percentile rankings from the past four season.  (Read More at our Point FAQ.)


Division II - Women

Pos Team @ Meet Points
1 UC San Diego CSUB vs. Alaska, Loyola Marymount, UCSD 746.3
2 Wayne State Wayne State vs. Grand Valley 687.5
3 Queens (NC) West Florida vs. Queens (NC) 586.3
4 Grand Valley Wayne State vs. Grand Valley 577.0
5 Delta State Ouachita Baptist vs. Delta State 553.6
6 CSU-East Bay Biola vs. California State East Bay, Azuza Pacific 548.9
7 Lindenwood Washington University Invitational 512.6
8 West Florida West Florida vs. Queens (NC) 457.3
9 Lewis Lewis vs. Carthage 449.5
10 Indianapolis Indianapolis vs. Hillsdale, Wabash 449.2
11 Edinboro Edinboro vs. Shippensburg 421.6
12 Alaska-Fairbanks Biola vs. Alaska-Fairbanks, Fresno Pacific, Pomona 417.0
13 Indiana (PA) Indiana (PA) vs. Wheeling Jesuit 398.1
14 Northern Michigan Minnesota State-Mankato vs. Northern Michigan 397.2
15 Hillsdale Indianapolis vs. Hillsdale, Wabash 397.2
16 Florida Tech Florida Tech vs. Savannah of Art and Design 386.6
17 Ashland Ashland vs. Lake Erie 359.6
18 Southern Connecticut Connecticut College vs. Southern Connecticut 343.9
19 Tampa Rollins vs. Kansas, Tampa 317.5
20 Minnesota-Mankato Minnesota State-Mankato vs. Northern Michigan 310.8
21 Adams State Colorado-Mines vs. Adams State 307.1
22 Shippensburg Edinboro vs. Shippensburg 300.4
23 Carson-Newman West Florida vs. Queens (NC) 279.3
24 Gannon Canisius vs. Gannon 273.3
25 Fresno Pacific Biola vs. Alaska-Fairbanks, Fresno Pacific, Pomona 264.6

26 William Jewell 254.4,  27 Rollins 209.3,  28 Colorado Mines 205.3,  29 Catawba 192.2,  30 Bentley 165.2,  31 Saint Rose 141.6,  32 Wheeling Jesuit 106.2,  33 Saint Michaels 100.2,  34 Mars Hill 40.7,  35 Nebraska-Kearney 28.0

Division II - Men

Pos Team @ Meet Points
1 UC San Diego SDSU vs. Air Force, Boise, UIW, San Jose State 630.1
2 Lindenwood Washington University Invitational 605.5
3 Grand Valley Wayne State vs. Grand Valley 584.9
4 Wayne State Wayne State vs. Grand Valley 575.2
5 Indianapolis Indianapolis vs. Hillsdale, Wabash 569.0
6 Queens (NC) Queens (NC) vs. Lenoir-Rhyne, Saint Andrews 537.4
7 Southern Connecticut Southern Connecticut vs. Marist 530.2
8 Missouri S&T Washington University Invitational 513.3
9 Florida Tech Florida Tech vs. Savannah of Art and Design 473.0
10 Delta State Ouachita Baptist vs. Delta State 465.9
11 Lewis Lewis vs. Carthage 430.1
12 Ashland Ashland vs. Lake Erie 366.8
13 Fresno Pacific Biola vs. Alaska-Fairbanks, Fresno Pacific, Pomona 323.9
14 Tampa Rollins vs. Kansas, Tampa 313.3
15 William Jewell Lewis vs. William Jewell 296.4
16 Colorado Mines Colorado-Mines vs. Adams State 286.5
17 Ouachita Baptist Ouachita Baptist vs. Delta State 275.3
18 Gannon Canisius vs. Gannon 271.3
19 Indiana (PA) Indiana (PA) vs. Wheeling Jesuit 246.8
20 Carson-Newman West Florida vs. Queens (NC) 238.5
21 Edinboro Edinboro vs. Shippensburg 230.8
22 Pfeiffer Mars Hill vs. Pfeiffer 222.2
23 Mars Hill Mars Hill vs. Pfeiffer 192.6
24 Saint Rose Saint Rose vs. Saint Michaels 190.5
25 Shippensburg Edinboro vs. Shippensburg 166.4
26 Wheeling Jesuit 153.8,  27 Bentley 142.8,  28 Lenoir-Rhyne 113.5,  29 Pittsburgh-Bradford 19.7,  30 Saint Michaels 11.0

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