Men D2 College Rankings for Fall 2022 Week 8
Men D2 College Rankings for Fall 2022 Week 8
We honestly would love to see some movement in the Top 10 but we don't because all of those teams did what was expected of them this past week.
There is some movement between 11 and 30. Miami of Ohio was a team we were waiting on. Basically we needed to see them record some results against teams we were confident were at the very least rankings-possible. They did that this past weekend with an emphatic win over Mid-East rivals Middle Tennessee State.
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Ferris State was another team we were waiting on. We had an inkling they deserved to be in the top 40 but they hadn't played any games that would tell us anything concrete. Beating a ranked team gets them in there.
UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington played a close one and move closer to each other. Bloomsburg beat Scranton and normally with a #40 loses they run the risk of dropping out. But it was a two-point loss and other teams dropped out for bigger losses, so Scranton hangs in there.
Conference playoffs are coming so expect some Top 10 movement.
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| Rank | Prev | Team | Div/Conf | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Norwich (VT) | New England-Wide | Beat UMass-Lowell (17) |
| 2 | 2 | IUP (PA) | Allegheny | Beat Rio Grande |
| 3 | 3 | Principia (IL) | Gateway | Maryville |
| 4 | 4 | Georgetown (DC) | MARC | Beat MSM C |
| 5 | 5 | Northern Iowa (IA) | Great MW | Beat Chicago (34) |
| 6 | 6 | Auburn (AL) | SCRC | |
| 7 | 7 | Villanova (PA) | MARC | Beat Widener |
| 8 | 8 | Marquette (WI) | Great MW | Beat UW-Whitewater (18) |
| 9 | 10 | Vermont (VT) | New England-Wide | Beat Bentley |
| 10 | 9 | NC State (NC) | Southern | Beat Furman (20) |
| 11 | 12 | GVSU (MI) | Great Lakes | Beat SVSU |
| 12 | 11 | Marist (NY) | Tri-State | Forfeit win |
| 13 | 13 | Central Missouri (MO) | Gateway | |
| 14 | 21 | Miami (OH) | Mid-East | Beat MTSU (29) |
| 15 | 14 | Montana State (MT) | Rocky Mountain | Lost to Utah Valley State |
| 16 | 18 | UW-Whitewater (WI) | Great MW | Lost to Marquette (8) |
| 17 | 16 | New Hampshire (NH) | NEWCRC | |
| 18 | 22 | Southeastern La. (LA) | Deep South | Beat Spring Hill |
| 19 | 15 | UNC-Charlotte (NC) | Southern | Beat UNC-Wilmington (26) by 1 point |
| 20 | 26 | UNC-Wilmington (NC) | Southern | Lost to UNC-Charlotte (15) by 1 point. |
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| 21 | 17 | UMass-Lowell (MA) | New England-Wide | Lost to Norwich (1) |
| 22 | 20 | Furman (SC) | Southern | Lost to NC State (9) |
| 23 | Unr | Ferris State (MI) | Great Lakes | Beat Central Michigan (23) |
| 24 | 23 | Central Michigan (MI) | Great Lakes | Lost to Ferris State |
| 25 | 19 | Washington U. (MO) | Gateway | |
| 26 | 24 | Virginia (VA) | Cardinals | Beat Old Dominion |
| 27 | 27 | SLU (MO) | Gateway | |
| 28 | 28 | UMS&T (MO) | Gateway | Beat John Brown |
| 29 | 25 | Memphis (TN) | SCRC | |
| 30 | 30 | Coast Guard (CT) | New England-Wide | Beat Providence (38) |
| 31 | 31 | USMMA (NY) | Tri-State | Beat RPI |
| 32 | 32 | Boston University (MA) | New England-Wide | Forfeit win |
| 33 | 33 | Loyola (IL) | Great MW | Beat Norwestern, Illinois State |
| 34 | 29 | MTSU (TN) | Mid-East | Lost to Miami (21) |
| 35 | 35 | Bucknell (PA) | MARC | Beat York |
| 36 | 39 | Pitt State (KS) | Gateway | |
| 37 | 34 | Chicago (IL) | Great MW | Lost to Northern Iowa |
| 38 | Unr | Bloomsburg (PA) | MARC | Beat Scranton (40) |
| 39 | 40 | Scranton (PA) | MARC | Lost to Bloomsburg |
| 40 | Unr | Towson (MD) | MARC | Beat UMBC |
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