Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Men's College Squash Pre-Season Rankings




Pre-Season Rank
College (Last year's final ranking in parenthesis)
Notes
1)
Columbia University (10)
You heard it here first
2)
Harvard University (1)
With Mike Way in charge, expect them to always be a contender
3)
Yale University (3)
Always elite
4)
St. Lawrence University (5)
Most talented team, but we're not sure they can keep all their guys on court
5)
Trinity College (2)
Trending down
6)
University of Pennsylvania (8)
Trending up
7)
Drexel University (16)
Breakthrough year . . . IF Coach White can keep his players eligible and healthy
8)
Cornell University (6)
Still an A Division team
9)
University of Rochester (7)
Need more depth
10)
Franklin and Marshall College (4)
Back to earth after last year's epic finish
11)
Williams College (14)
Solid program
12)
Bates College (12)
Drama, drama, drama
13)
Naval Academy (15)
The fittest team in college squash
14)
Dartmouth College (11)
Un-official mascot is "Keggy" the Keg
15)
Wesleyan University (19)
Becoming a power
16)
George Washington University (20)
This coach can recruit
17)
Princeton University (9)
A "Gentleman's C" Division Champion
18)
Brown University (18)
Probably the team with the highest SAT scores
19)
Bowdoin College (21)
Great school and great kids
20)
Amherst College (22)
Good recruiting year
21)
University of Western Ontario (12)
Too much talent lost
22)
Middlebury College (19)
A transitional year
23)
Hamilton College (24)
Preppiest team in squash
24)
Colby College (23)
Nice team and nice coach
25)
Stanford University (28)
Best club team in the nation

3 comments:

  1. don't forget nationals are at Trinity...

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  2. 1. harvard 2. trinity 3. yale 4. columbia
    -Don't see how you can justify dropping them from 1 when they beat everyone 9-0 last year. They're worse but not by all that much
    -nationals are at trinity, and they lost no one from their second place team last year. Would not be surprised at all to see them win
    -columbia has the best top 4 in the country but suck 5-9. can see them losing some awkwardly bad matches because of their depth (look for a maksoud stack down towards the bottom to avoid this)
    -Yale will be very good, not strong at the top but solid all the way through (nightmare for columbia)
    -Princeton... figure it out

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  3. Bucknell University is the best club team in the nation...

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