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.
Sorry but Stony Brook has an excellent coach who knows how to win but are the least athletic top team out there. Compared to the other top teams their midfield will struggle and do not think their freshman class is going to contribute much. I think they have a chance to beat any team but to win it all they are going to have to win too many difficult games in a row. Until someone beats MD they are the top but if you are looking for a non UNC -MD team I would go with Florida .