Well the rankings took a bit of a hit in playoff time.

This isn't the first time that's happened, and the reason is even more pronounced—we don't see a lot of teams cross over from one conference to another, or even from one division within a conference to the other side, and in this post-COVID-shutdown time that lack of crossover data has been even tougher to make up for.

Still, it wasn't a complete bloodbath. The #1 team survived (although #2 lost in a close one). Overall, higher ranked teams won eight and lost six this week. Thomas More over Marian was the biggest surprise. Georgia Tech over Memphis wasn't much of a shocker at all, really, as they were ranked very close. We didn't have Drexel ranked because we hadn't seen them against tough opposition (same with Georgetown at #39). But they showed they deserve to be in the rankings.

Georgetown's downing of Bucknell happened because we had some other teams ranked highly because of reputation, so when Bucknell beat those teams were we like "wow" when we should have been like "huh."

UNC-Wilmington's victory over Furman is predictable too because UNCW was getting better and better through the season and Furman is pretty young. We still think the Great Midwest teams are strong and any of the three in the playoffs could win it all on the right day. But could the champion be #23 Virginia? Sure it could. Could it be #3 Principia? Of course. And Thomas More, moving from #10 to #34; could they move to #1? Why not? 

(We moved East Carolina down despite their not having done anything one way or the other because we had Citadel too low and needed to nudge them up a bit, while also bringing a team Citadel beat down below them. And we can't move any idle team up too drastically because there are so many important games actually being played.)

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Norwich (VT)	New England-Wide	Beat UMass-Lowell (8)
2	3	Adrian (MI)	Great Lakes	Beat Michigan Selects
3	5	Principia (IL)	Gateway
4	6	UNC-Charlotte (NC)	Southern
5	9	Illinois State (IL)	Great MW	Beat Northern Iowa (2)
6	8	UMass-Lowell (MA)	New England-Wide	Lost to Norwich (1)
7	10	IUP (PA)	Allegheny	Beat Kent State
8	20	UNC-Wilmington (NC)	Southern	Beat Furman (7)
9	2	Northern Iowa (IA)	Great MW	Lost to Illinois State (9)
10	34	Thomas More (KY)	MCRC	Beat Marian (4)
11	12	Marquette (WI)	Great MW	Beat UW-Whitewater (14)
12	7	Furman (SC)	Southern	Lost to UNC-Wilmington (20)
13	4	Marian (IN)	MCRC	Lost to Thomas More (34)
14	18	Georgia Tech (GA)	SCRC	Beat Memphis (16)
15	15	Vermont (VT)	New England-Wide	Beat Providence (24)
16	39	Georgetown (DC)	MARC	Beat Drexel, Bucknell (11)
17	19	Montana State (MT)	Rocky Mountain
18	11	Bucknell (PA)	MARC	Beat Villanova (21), lost to Georgetown (39)
19	16	Memphis (TN)	SCRC	Lost to Georgia-Tech (18)
20	17	Auburn (AL)	SCRC
21	13	Central Michigan (MI)	Great Lakes
22	Unr	Drexel (PA)	MARC	Lost to Georgetown (39), beat Villanova (21)
23	33	Virginia (VA)	Cardinals	Beat VCU
24	21	Villanova (PA)	MARC	Lost to Bucknell (11), Drexel
25	14	UW-Whitewater (WI)	Great MW	Lost to Marquette (12)
26	26	Marist (NY)	Tri-State	Beat RPI (37)
27	24	Providence (RI)	New England-Wide	Lost to Vermont (15)
28	22	SLU (MO)	Gateway
29	28	UNC (NC)	Southern
30	25	Pitt State (KS)	Gateway
31	32	Citadel (SC)	Southern
32	23	East Carolina	Southern
33	30	Boston University (MA)	New England-Wide
34	31	Belmont Abbey (NC)	Southern	Forfeit win
35	27	Coast Guard (CT)	New England-Wide
36	29	UMS&T (MO)	Gateway
37	35	UW-Platteville (WI)	Great MW
38	38	Grand Valley State (MI)	Great Lakes
39	36	USMMA (NY)	Tri-State
40	37	RPI (NY)	Tri-State	XXXX