Defending NCAA champions Maryland, Limestone and Salisbury are the top-ranked teams in the USILA preseason coaches polls, which were released Tuesday.
Maryland, which ended a 42-year NCAA title drought in 2017, came in atop the Division I ranking. Duke, ranked No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Preseason Top 20 and also in the Face-Off Yearbook Preseason Top 25, is No. 2 in the coaches poll. Albany, Denver and Yale round out the USILA top five.
In Division II, it’s Limestone in the top spot, followed by NCAA runner-up Merrimack, Le Moyne, Adelphi and Pace.
In Division III, the top tier starts with Salisbury, then Wesleyan, RIT, Denison and York.
The complete lists can be found below.
USILA Division I Preseason Poll
Rank |
Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Maryland |
| 2 | Duke |
| 3 | Albany |
| 4 | Denver |
| 5 | Yale |
| 6 | Notre Dame |
| 7 | Rutgers |
| 8 | Ohio State |
| 9 | North Carolina |
| 10 | Syracuse |
| 11 | Johns Hopkins |
| 12 | Penn State |
| 13 | Loyola |
| 14 | Towson |
| 15 | Marquette |
| 16 | Army |
| 17 | Air Force |
| 18 | Penn |
| 19 | Hofstra |
| 20 | Brown |
USILA Division II Preseason Poll
Rank |
Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Limestone |
| 2 | Merrimack |
| 3 | Le Moyne |
| 4 | Adelphi |
| 5 | Pace |
| 6 | Tampa |
| 7 | Lenoir Rhyne |
| 8 | NYIT |
| 9 | Seton Hill |
| 10 | Belmont Abbey |
| 11 | Mercyhurst |
| 12 | Mount Olive |
| 13 | Wingate |
| 14 | Colorado Mesa |
| 15 | Indianapolis |
| 16 | Mercy |
| 17 | Lindenwood |
| 18 | Florida Tech |
| 19 | Saint Leo |
| 20 | Saint Anselm |
USILA Division III Preseason Poll
Rank |
Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Salisbury |
| 2 | Wesleyan |
| 3 | RIT |
| 4 | Denison |
| 5 | York |
| 6 | Cortland |
| 7 | Cabrini |
| 8 | Tufts |
| 9 | St. Lawrence |
| 10 | Amherst |
| 11 | Bates |
| 12 | Lynchburg |
| 13 | Dickinson |
| 14 | Gettysburg |
| 15 | Franklin & Marshall |
| 16 | Stevenson |
| 17 | Ithaca |
| 18 | Roanoke |
| 19 | Stevens |
| 20 | Washington & Lee |