Written by RUGBYMag Staff    Monday, 17 October 2011 18:24    PDF Print Write e-mail
Men's DII College Top 25,
Rankings - Men DII College

Move over Lindenwood, you're not the only team that can score 100 points in a league game. Salisbury can, too. They hung 112 on George Wachington Saturday, a week after beating Maryland, who is ranked in DI and the defending Atlantic Coast champion.

Whitewater fell just four points shy of 100 against N. Michigan, Northern Illinois posted 85 on Northwestern, Georgetown piled up 84 on Catholic and Northern Colorado scored 72 on New Mexico. Is it because these teams are playing in a league with that poor of competition, or because these teams are that good? Probably a mix of both.

Needless to say, all the big scorers listed above have done well in our list.

One team who has dropped entirely out of our 25 is East Carolina, as they've apparently gone off the grid. Multiple attempts to reach a team official have fallen flat over the last few weeks, and there appears to be little or no record of them actually playing a game this fall, though they typically do.

Appalachian State, a long-time ECU rival, pulled a similar disappearing act earlier this fall. However, that was because the team had been suspended from campus indefinitely. It's now reinstated and scrambling to compile a league schedule.

There is no reason to believe ECU has suffered a similar suspension, but it's not fair to teams who are playing and winning to rank a team who has no record of doing either this season.

Some of those teams who are winning too much to be ignored are Pitt, North Dakota State, AIC, Ohio and Xavier. They combine for an aggregate record of 21-0-3.

1. (1) UW-Whitewater 4-0 Won 96-8 over N. Michigan, Marquette 38-14
2. (2) Lindenwood 6-0 Won 127-0 over SLU, 105-15 over Principia
3. (3) Salisbury 4-0 Won 30-22 over Maryland, 112-0 over George Washington
4. (4) Northern Colorado 4-0-1 Won 72-24 over New Mexico
5. (5) Utah Valley 5-0 Won 28-5 over Utah State, 35-22 over Idaho State
6. (6) Sierra College Idle
7. (7) Towson 3-1 Won 83-0 over St. Mary's, lost 24-17 to Maryland
8. (15) Northern Illinois 5-0 Beat Northwestern 85-5
9. (8) Mary Washington 3-0-1 Tied James Madison
10. (10) Central Missouri 2-0 Won 85-0 over Kansas City Carnivores
11. (13) Colorado School of the Mines 1-0
12. (14) UNC Wilmington 2-1 Won 54-3 over Elon, lost 25-17 to North Carolina
13. (15) Coast Guard 4-1 Won 25-12 over Maine, 23-15 over Norwich
14. (16) Boston Univ 4-1 Won 34-15 over UNH, 18-19 over Holy Cross
15. (17) Rhode Island 4-1 Won 46-22 over Holy Cross, 18-10 over Maine
16. (18) UW-Milwaukee 5-0 Won 33-10 over UW-Platteville, 48-26 over UW-Lacrosse
17. (Unr.) Pitt 5-0 Won 32-22 over West Virginia, 52-17 over California (PA)
18. (Unr.) AIC 4-0 Won 22-11 over Bentley
19. (22) Georgetown 3-1 Won 84-0 over Catholic, 29-5 over UMBC
20. (19) Cal Maritime Idle
21. (12) Bentley 3-1 Lost 22-11 to AIC
22. (Unr.) Ohio 4-0-1 Won 53-7 over Louisville
23. (Unr.) North Dakota State 4-0-1
24. (25) William Paterson 5-1 Won 43-12 over Sacred Heart, 29-5 over Seton Hall
25. (Unr.) Xavier 4-0-1

Dropped Out:
(11) East Carolina
(20) Saint Louis 2-1 Lost 127-0 to Lindenwood
(21) Radford 1-1 Lost 30-24 to VMI
(23) Marist 5-1 Won 43-0 over Hofstra, lost 29-20 to Vassar
(24) St. Cloud 3-2 Lost 22-19 to Winona, Won 28-0 over St. John's