08-05-2026, 10:13 AM
(08-05-2026, 08:55 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:(08-04-2026, 04:52 PM)82lsju Wrote: we're #1
UNITED SOCCER COACHES TOP 25
NCAA DI WOMEN — NATIONAL
pre-season poll
https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings...TWvCVNFjqQ
Ranked #1 with no 1st place votes? That seems odd.
ACC is ranked 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 11.
Stanford will play #2 (Notre Dame), #9 (UCLA), #14 (Georgetown) and #18 (Wake Forest) at home.
Stanford will play #3 (Duke) and #8 (North Carolina) on the road.
Especially with ND getting 6 out of the 8 first place votes. Assuming that its 25 points for each first place vote, then they would have had to have had a 5th (20 pts) and 6th (19 pts) place vote for the other two voters (or 4th & 7th, 3rd/8th, or 2nd/9th). To get to 191 points without a first place vote, Stanford would have had to have had 7/8 second place votes and 1 third place vote. With only 8 voters, one or two "haters" was enough to tank UND.
BC