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Defending NCAA champions Maryland, Adelphi and Gettysburg are the top-ranked teams in the IWLCA preseason coaches polls, which were released Monday.

Maryland, which has lost all of four games combined over the last five seasons, took the No. 1 spot in Division I, garnering 24 of 25 first-place votes. The remaining first-place vote went to No. 2 Stony Brook. North Carolina, Penn State and Florida round out the top five.

In Division II, Adelphi likewise earned 24 of 25 first-place votes, the one dissenter going in favor of No. 2 Florida Southern, which has met the Panthers in the last two NCAA championship games. Semifinalists Lindenwood and Le Moyne are No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, with LIU post coming in at No. 5.

The Division III poll is tighter at the top. Gettysburg grabbed 19 of 25 first-place votes, with TCNJ — ranked No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Preseason Top 20 — siphoning off six first-place votes from the Bullets from the No. 2 spot. Washington and Lee, Trinity and Middlebury round out the top five.

The complete polls, expanded to 25 teams in all three divisions, can be found below.

IWLCA Division I Preseason Poll

Rank
Team
Pts (1st)
2017
1 Maryland 624 (24) 23-0
2 Stony Brook 582 (1) 20-2
3 North Carolina 564 17-3
4 Penn State 511 17-4
5 Florida 501 17-3
6 Boston College 475 17-7
7 Syracuse 465 15-7
8 USC 436 18-4
9 Princeton 424 15-4
10 Navy 422 18-5
11 Northwestern 391 11-10
12 Penn 362 13-4
13 Cornell 306 13-6
14 Virginia 299 12-9
15 Notre Dame 275 11-8
16 James Madison 235 14-7
17 Colorado 228 16-4
18 UMass 168 17-4
19 Towson 137 12-7
20 Duke 133 8-9
21 Elon 106 13-7
22 Johns Hopkins 94 11-7
23 Stanford 80 12-6
24 Albany 69 12-6
25 Loyola 64 11-8

IWLCA Division II Preseason Poll

Rank
Team
Pts (1st)
2017
1 Adelphi 624 (24) 21-1
2 Florida Southern 596 (1) 21-3
3 Lindenwood 566 21-2
4 Le Moyne 564 19-2
5 LIU Post 514 16-3
6 Florida Tech 478 14-4
7 Queens (N.C.) 463 17-4
8 New Haven 425 15-5
9 Regis (Colo.) 404 17-3
10 East Stroudsberg 368 17-3
11 Rollins 344 12-5
12 Mercy 342 16-4
13 Limestone 340 17-3
14 NYIT 340 15-4
15 Mercyhurst 258 13-5
16 West Chester 254 12-5
17 Stonehill 217 12-7
18 Pace 182 11-6
19 Indiana (Pa.) 171 11-7
20 McKendree 156 13-5
21 Grand Valley State 113 8-9
22 Colorado Mesa 71 13-4
23 Lock Haven 61 9-8
24 Indianapolis 54 13-5
25 Slippery Rock 44 12-6

IWLCA Division III Preseason Poll

Rank
Team
Pts (1st)
2017
1 Gettysburg 618 (19) 21-3
2 TCNJ 605 (6) 19-2
3 Washington and Lee 559 19-2
4 Trinity 533 17-5
5 Middlebury 519 16-5
6 William Smith 482 20-2
7 Franklin & Marshall 472 17-5
8 York 452 16-4
9 Salisbury 434 16-6
10 Colby 397 15-4
11 Ithaca 323 14-5
12 Hamilton 314 12-6
13 Messiah 311 16-3
14 Catholic 302 14-5
15 Brockport 282 16-3
16 Cortland 255 14-5
17 Mary Washington 219 15-6
18 St. John Fisher 207 15-5
19 Tufts 168 10-6
20 Wesleyan 167 11-6
21 Colorado College 125 15-5
22 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 86 16-2
23 Bowdoin 62 10-6
24 Denison 41 15-4
25 Stevens 35 13-5