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Maryland Beats Out UVA for No. 1 Ranking in USILA Preseason Poll

January 31, 2023
Matt DaSilva
Maryland Athletics

The reigning NCAA champions are No. 1 until proven otherwise.

That is, at least, according to the USILA preseason coaches polls that came out Tuesday.

Despite losing considerable talent from an undefeated team some considered one of the best in NCAA history, Maryland earned 17 of 25 first-place votes to take the top spot in the USILA Division I Preseason Coaches Poll.

Virginia received the remaining eight first-place votes to come in at No. 2. The Cavaliers are currently ranked ahead of Maryland atop the Nike/USA Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse media rankings.

Georgetown, Cornell and Notre Dame round out the top five of the USILA poll.

In Division II and Division III, meanwhile, the No. 1 teams were nearly unanimous. Tampa swept all 21 first-place votes in Division II and RIT got 18 of 19 first-place votes in Division III.

USILA DIVISION I PRESEASON POLL

RK
TEAM
PTS
1ST

1

Maryland

490

17

2

Virginia

469

8

3

Georgetown

431

4

Cornell

399

5

Notre Dame

391

6

Princeton

368

7

Duke

354

8

Yale

319

9

Penn

310

10

Rutgers

295

11

Ohio State

271

12

Delaware

188

13

Saint Joseph's

129

14

Boston University

128

15

Harvard

122

16

Brown

120

17

Jacksonville

96

18

Denver

75

19

Richmond

61

20

North Carolina

60

Also receiving votes: Army, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Navy, Villanova, Lehigh, Syracuse, High Point, Utah, Vermont, Albany, UMass, Michigan, Air Force

USILA DIVISION II PRESEASON POLL

RK
TEAM
PTS
1ST

1

Tampa

420

21

2

Mercy

377

3

Lenior-Rhyne

349

4

Le Moyne

336

5

Adelphi

331

6

Wingate

321

7

Mercyhurst

311

8

UIndy

271

9

Limestone

261

10

St. Anselm

218

11

Seton Hill

197

12

Rollins

194

13

Pace

163

14

Florida Southern

137

15

Florida Tech

110

16

Belmont Abbey

92

17

Bentley

68

18

Wilmington (Del.)

67

19

Colorado Mesa

57

20

Frostburg State

30

Also receiving votes: Newbury, Lynn, Lewis, Chestnut Hill, Mount Olive, Montevallo, Anderson (S.C.), Maryville (Mo.), Westminster (Utah), Dominican (N.Y.), Lake Erie, Lander, Rockhurst

USILA DIVISION III PRESEASON POLL

RK
TEAM
PTS
1ST

1

RIT

378

18

2

Salisbury

340

1

3

Tufts

336

4

Christopher Newport

306

5

York

296

6

Union

288

7

Bowdoin

263

8

Gettysburg

234

9

Dickinson

209

10

St. Lawrence

162

11

Lynchburg

161

11

Wesleyan

161

13

Cabrini

154

14

St. John Fisher

147

15

Amherst

122

16

Denison

78

17

Stevenson

64

18

RPI

56

19

Washington and Lee

51

20

Ursinus

30

Also receiving votes: Franklin & Marshall, Hampden-Sydney, Ithaca, Stevens, Western New England, Cortland, Grove City, MIT, Roanoke, Muhlenberg, Middlebury, Norwich, Stockton, Endicott, Albion, Catholic, Coast Guard