Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
IL Women's NCAA preseason:

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.