1. Maryland 2. Stony Brook 3. North Carolina 4. Boston College 5. Florida 6. Penn State 7. Navy 8. USC 9. Syracuse 10. Northwestern 11. Princeton 12. Penn 13. Virginia 14. Cornell 15. UMass 16. Notre Dame 17. James Madison 18. Albany 19. Colorado 20. Elon 21. Duke 22. Stanford 23. Loyola 24. Towson 25. John Hopkins
My initial thoughts ... BC too high. They were an ok team until Kenzie Kent joined midseason. She is not playing this year. BC is no better than 10 without her. SB is not the #2 team in the country, particularly w the 3-second rule back to a major foul. Will be hard to know with their cream puff schedule, but they r more like top 8. Navy caught lightening in a bottle last year. Great for them. Not a top ten team.
You are dead wrong about stony brook my daughter’s team played them in the fall they are awesome and are definitely deserving of #2 and may win it all. Penn State who was in the same tournament is frankly overranked at 6.
The only reason 21-25 are on the list is reputation, these list's typically only list top 20 teams, but heaven forbid lax royalty didn't get a mention