DII Top 25 Schedules (2/14-2/19) Predict/Scores/Discussion

by **woulax23** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:42 pm

This is just a little preview of the week for you pollsters out there. Hopefully this will give you some things to look at for the upcoming poll next week. I’ll try and update it with the outcomes on Monday.

(Conference-Division, National Ranking if applicable)

1. Westminster College
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

2. St. John’s
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 1-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 @ San Diego (WCLL-1)*
Sunday Feb. 17 v. Northern Arizona 10:00 am (RMLC-2 , #21)*
Sunday feb. 17 v. Utah Valley State 2:00 pm (RMLC-2, #6)*
* All games are taking place at U.C. Irvine

3. St. Thomas
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 1-0
This Week: Friday Feb. 15th @ Emory (SELC-2, #5)
Saturday Feb. 16 @ UNC-Charlotte (SELC-2, #14)
Monday Feb. 18 @ Kennesaw St. (SELC-2)

4. Dayton
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

5. Emory
Current Record: 5-0
Current Division Record: -0
This Week: Friday Feb. 15 v. St. Thomas (UMLL-2, #3)

6. Utah Valley State
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Friday Feb. 15 v. Northern Arizona (RMLC-2, #21)*
Saturday Feb. 16 v. Biola (WCLL-2)*
Sunday Feb. 17 v. St. John's (UMLL-2, #2)*
* All games are taking place at U.C. Irvine

7. Northern Colorado
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

8. Fort Lewis College
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

9. Western Washington
Current Record: 0-1
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 v. Western Oregon University (PNCLL-2, #16)
Sunday Feb. 17, v. Willamette University (PNCLL-2)

10. Harding
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

11. Savannah College of Art and Design
Current Record: 2-1
Current Division Record: 2-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 v. St. Leo

12. Southwestern
Current Record: 1-2
Current Division Record: 1-0
This Week: Saturday Feb.16 v. Sam Houston State University (LSA-2)

13. Montana State
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

14. Charlotte
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 1-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 v. St. Thomas (UMLL-2, #3)

15. Carnegie Mellon
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Tuesday Feb. 19 v. John Carol

16. Western Oregon
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 @ Western Washington University (PNCLL-2, #9)
Sunday @ Central Washington University (PNCLL-2)

17. Augustana College
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

18. Southern Oregon
Current Record: 2-1
Current Division Record: 1-1
This Week: Sunday Feb. 17 v. University of Nevada-Reno (WCLL-1)

19. Grand Valley State
Current Record: 1-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

20. Pacific Lutheran
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 v. University of Nevada-Reno (WCLL-1)
Sunday Feb. 17 v. Portland State University (Non-MCLA Team)

21. Northern Arizona
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Friday Feb. 15 v. Utah Valley State (RMLC-2, #6)*
Saturday Feb. 16 v. Biola*
Sunday Feb. 17 v. St. John's (UMLL-2, #2)*
* All games are taking place at U.C. Irvine

22. Creighton
Current Record: 2-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

23. Depaul
Current Record: 0-0
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: ~idle~

24. Elon
Current Record: 1-1
Current Division Record: 1-1
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 v. High Point (SELC-2)

25. Pepperdine
Current Record: 0-1
Current Division Record: 0-0
This Week: Saturday Feb. 16 @ UC-Irvine (WCLL-2)

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by **Johnnielax13** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:08 pm

It is St. Thomas who is playing @ Emory.

by **Beta** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:22 pm

The St Johns/Emory game is not happening.

by **woulax23** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:13 pm

thanks for the clarification

by **Gvlax** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:20 pm

At this time i do not see that much that has happened to affect the top 25 all that much. I know some good teams are playing this weekend so this might all change.

by **Gvlax** on Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:23 pm

curious as to how the voters will react to teams who are idle before the next poll, or teams that have lost to top 5 teams.

by **woulax23** on Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:20 pm

Gvlax wrote:At this time i do not see that much that has happened to affect the top 25 all that much. I know some good teams are playing this weekend so this might all change.

I think that this weekend is obviously the biggest weekend for the pollsters to pay attention to so far from this season (thus my write up

) and really think things have an opportunity to be shaken up. We have #2 St. John's against #6 Utah Valley State, along with #3 St. Thomas going up against #5 Emory. These two games have the potential to show how stacked the top 5 might be. Plus we also have a chance to see some mid-poll teams playing some of the higher ranked teams, which should show how competitive the entire top 25 could be this year. Overall it should be a pretty exciting weekend for the D-II, especially with that poll coming out on Wednesday. anyone with knowledge of some teams have predictions for some of the games featuring two top 25 teams this weekend. I personally don't know much of anything about most of the teams playing this weekend so I will refrain from throwing out useless predictions, but it would be nice to hear some from people who are more in the know.

by **Gvlax** on Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:33 pm

I dont see much movement in this up coming poll. Most teams have won their first few games and now seem to be waiting out the weather for the vast majority of the games. Too many top 25 teams only have 1 or 2 games or even none before this next poll comes out.

by **Hi-Line Lax** on Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:48 pm

I wouldn't be surprised to see some movement in the Top 5 (as mentioned above) and I'm curious about the UNC-Charlotte/St. Thomas game to see how strong the middle of the pack are. The WOU/WWU match up in the PNCLL will be a good conference indicator and the Irvine event should be interesting this year with the RMLC stacking up against St. John's and the WCLL trying to re-enter the top tier after their conference seemed to take some hard hits last year.

For one weekend, there could actually be a lot of movement in Div 2... good luck to everybody this weekend.

by **USTLAX06** on Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:53 pm

Emory has played 5 games already? That's a huge advantage for them on a critical weekend in Div B. St. John's and UVSC could be a very good game to. I'm interested to hear the story on NAU. They were on my map last year and are there again this year. I'll try and get something up about the UST vs Emory and UST vs. UNC-C games after I have spoken to the coaches.

by **Gvlax** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:20 am

St. Thomas 4
Emory 3

according to MCLA.us

This seems about right for the 3rd vs 5th place team. no movement in the poll there i think. Still have many more ranked teams playing this weekend.

by **Beta** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:52 am

Gvlax wrote:St. Thomas 4
Emory 3

Emory was winning most of the game....but over 8 minutes of penalties for Emory kind of hurt things...a little.

by **Gvlax** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:35 am

Beta wrote:
Gvlax wrote:St. Thomas 4
Emory 3

Emory was winning most of the game....but over 8 minutes of penalties for Emory kind of hurt things...a little.

Sounds like one huge defensive battle.

by **ktrost58** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:42 am

Any word on the games being played out in UC irvine?

by **USTLAX06** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:17 am

Emory was winning most of the game....but over 8 minutes of penalties for Emory kind of hurt things...a little.

Good thing for UST that they were ahead at the end of the game. That's all that matters.

The UST coaches I spoke to said Emory's D is legit. After seeing that score, I believe it.