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 .
Stony Brook has come on strong the past several years and will be very good again this year. They have improved their strength of schedule the past couple of years and I guess bumped it up even more this year. Last year they had some strong programs on the schedule but where and when the games were played was very favorable for them. Good Coach and some great players but #2 might be a little high (but not much).
MD and UNC will be very good (real surprise) Florida and Boston College should contend for a final 4 spot as well. Penn State might slip a bit and not sure Navy will make it again. Syracuse, Northwestern and Princeton also have potential to earn a spot in the final 4.
My Top 10
1 - Maryland 2 - North Carolina 3 - Florida 4 - Boston College 5 - Stony Brook 6 - Southern Cal 7 - Syracuse 8 - Northwestern 9 - Princeton 10 - Penn State
Depending on how the seedings work out I think we will see Stony Brook, Florida and Maryland in the final 4. Would like to seeSouthern Cal make it as well.