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ATLANTA, Ga. — With the new addition of Georgia to the MCLA Division I New Balance Weekly Coaches poll, the SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference (SELC) now takes up nine of the 25 spots in the poll, which was for the period ending March 2.

South Carolina (9-0) still leads the way at the top of the charts, grabbing 15 of the 23 first-place votes this week.

No. 4 Liberty (5-0), No. 5 (tied) Georgia Tech (7-1), No. 7 Florida State (5-1), No. 14 Virginia Tech (4-0), No. 19 Clemson (4-2), No. 22 Florida (5-2), No. 23 Auburn (6-3) and No. 25 Georgia (4-3) round out the remaining eight.

California (6-0) remained firm in the second spot, seven points behind the Gamecocks. The Golden Bears snagged the remaining eight first-place votes.

Despite a one-goal loss to No. 5 (tied) Chapman (4-2), Cal Poly (7-1) remain lodged in the third chair.

The big mover of the week was Boston College (3-2), which parlayed a one-goal win over Chapman on Monday night into a 10-spot move up the charts to No. 9.

Grand Canyon (1-2) exited the poll this week to make room for Georgia.

MCLA 2020 New Balance
Division I Coaches Pol​l

Rank
Team
FPV
1 South Carolina 15
2 California 8
3 Cal Poly 1
4 Liberty  
5 Chapman  
6 Georgia Tech  
7 Florida State  
8 Colorado  
9 Boston College  
10 Brigham Young  
11 USC  
12 New Hampshire  
13 Santa Clara  
14 Virginia Tech  
15 Michigan State  
16 Utah Valley  
17 Dominican  
18 Concordia-Irvine  
19 Clemson  
20 Oregon  
21 Connecticut  
22 Florida  
23 Auburn  
24 Minnesota  
25 Georgia  

Others receiving votes (in descending order of votes received): Buffalo, Colorado State, Pittsburgh, Texas, Grand Canyon, Southern methodist, Temple, Oregon State, San Diego State, Tennessee

Minn.-Duluth remains at the top of the MCLA Division II New Balance Coaches Poll for the third straight week and the Bulldogs are one of eight ranked teams that will participate in Nashville Judgement this weekend at Vanderbilt.

The Bulldogs (3-0), who rang up 18 of the 22 votes this week, will be joined by No. 2 St. Thomas (2-1), No. 3 Dayton (3-0), No. 6 Grand Valley State (0-0), No. 8 Kennesaw State (4-1), No. 12 Florida Gulf Coast (0-0), No. 15 Missouri State (3-3) and No. 21 Rhode Island (3-0).

St. Thomas kept its two first-place votes from last week while Dayton upped its total to two, as well.

North Dakota State (1-0), which is heading the Rockies to play Division I powers Colorado and Colorado State, remains at No. 4 while College of Idaho (1-0) sits tight at No. 5.

There were no departures from last week’s poll.

MCLA 2020 New Balance
Division II Preseason Coaches Poll

Rank
Team
FPV
1 Minn.-Duluth 18
2 St. Thomas 2
3 Dayton 2
4 North Dakota State  
5 College of Idaho  
6 Grand Valley State  
7 St. John's  
8 Kennesaw State  
9 Montana  
10 Northern Arizona  
11 UC Davis  
12 Florida Gulf Coast  
13 Utah State  
14 Montana State  
15 Missouri State  
16 UC San Diego  
17 Bridgewater State  
T-18 Cal State San Marcos  
T-18 Loyola Marymount  
20 Florida Atlantic  
21 Rhode Island  
22 Central Conn. State  
23 MSU Denver  
24 North Florida  
25 UNC-Charlotte  

Others receiving votes (in descending order of votes received): San Diego, Colorado Denver, College of Charleston, Elon, Rice, Western Oregon, Wake Forest, Stonehill, UC Irvine, Washington-Mo., Saint Mary's, Central Washington, Coastal Carolina