Men DII College Rankings
This was a week of several rankings upsets.
Most of them came about because a) a team that had built its ranking on good early results faded due to injuries, or other challenges; b) the opposite happened, and a team that lost an early game or two just got better, got players back from injury, or got some late recruits; or c) we just had it wrong.
With the #1 team losing we have to have a new #1.
Adrian had a good chance to vault into that place but—as has been the case through a chunk of their season—they had an opponent cancel on them, and #2 Norwich beat a ranked opponent in convincing fashion. So it's logical that Norwich takes the #1 spot.
If Furman had lost to Belmont Abbey it's likely Norwich, having beaten two highly-ranked teams in convincing fashion, would have been #1.
We have three teams coming into the rankings.
All of the top teams did what was expected of them, so they don't move, but we do have major movement further along the rankings.
UW-PLatteville kept winning and they shoot up 16 places. That's in part because #10 Loyola lost, leaving a bit of a void there. IUP keeps looking impressive and comes into the Top 10.