Editor’s note: the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA)’s rankings track dual meet strength, specifically. That is, a higher-ranked team is expected to win in a head-to-head dual meet with a lower-ranked team, according to the voters. These rankings aren’t an NCAA finish prediction – for a ranking closer to that model, check out SwimSwam’s Power Rankings (for Division I).
The Denison women moved up from #2 to #1, while the Kenyon men continue to sit on top, in the latest round of the CSCAA dual meet polls. The defending Division III champions on both sides, the Emory women and the Denison men, are both currently ranked #2.
There was a lot of movement towards the bottom end of the poll, especially on the men’s side, where five of the six teams ranked 20th-25th were unranked in November’s poll. The previous #1 on the women’s side, Johns Hopkins, slipped to #4.
Division III Women
| Rank | Previous | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Denison | 422 |
| 2 | 3 | Emory | 407 |
| 3 | 4 | Kenyon | 393 |
| 4 | 1 | Johns Hopkins | 370 |
| 5 | 7 | NYU | 360 |
| 6 | 9 | Tufts | 324 |
| 7 | 8 | Chicago | 314 |
| 8 | 12 | MIT | 307 |
| 9 | 6 | WashU | 292 |
| 10 | 5 | Williams | 263 |
| 11 | 11 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 257 |
| 12 | 10 | Carnegie Mellon | 243 |
| 13 | 13 | Pomona-Pitzer | 214 |
| 14 | 14 | Saint Kate’s | 207 |
| 15 | 19 | Bates | 179 |
| 16 | 15 | Washington & Lee | 160 |
| 17 | 16 | Amherst | 159 |
| 18 | 18 | Case Western Reserve | 142 |
| 19 | 25 | SUNY Geneseo | 132 |
| 20 | 24 | Bowdoin | 93 |
| 21 | 20 | Calvin | 78 |
| 22 | 17 | Rowan | 71 |
| 23 | NR | Trinity (TX) | 55 |
| 24 | 22 | Birmingham Southern | 35 |
| 25 | NR | Wellesley | 21 |
Also Receiving Votes
Gettysburg (13), Franklin (7), Rhodes (4), Vassar (2)
Division III Men
| Rank | Previous | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Kenyon | 419 |
| 2 | 2 | Denison | 406 |
| 3 | 4 | Emory | 399 |
| 4 | 6 | MIT | 371 |
| 5 | 3 | Johns Hopkins | 354 |
| 6 | 7 | NYU | 338 |
| 7 | 5 | WashU | 322 |
| 8 | 8 | Chicago | 292 |
| 9 | 13 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 272 |
| 10 | 9 | Carnegie Mellon | 266 |
| 11 | 11 | Williams | 258 |
| 12 | 10 | Pomona-Pitzer | 226 |
| 13 | 12 | Tufts | 220 |
| 14 | 17 | Rowan | 199 |
| 15 | 14 | Calvin | 187 |
| 16 | 20 | TCNJ | 175 |
| 17 | 19 | Amherst | 153 |
| 18 | 15 | John Carroll | 129 |
| 19 | 24 | Birmingham Southern | 111 |
| 20 | NR | Franklin & Marshall | 110 |
| 21 | 25 | Case Western Reserve | 94 |
| 22 | NR | Trinity (TX) | 67 |
| 23 | NR | Mary Washington | 42 |
| 24 | NR | UW-Stevens Point | 41 |
| 25 | NR | Gettysburg | 35 |
Also Receiving Votes
Hope (13), Coast Guard (10), Merchant Marine (5), RPI (4), Swarthmore (3), UW-EAU Claire (2), UW-LA Crosse (1), Colby (1)
Regional Rankings
WOMEN:
CENTRAL: 1. Denison 2. Kenyon 3. Chicago 4. Saint Catherine 5. Case Western 6. Calvin 7. Franklin 8. Hope 9. Saint Thomas 10. Albion
NORTHEAST-NORTH: 1. New York University 2. Tufts 3. MIT 4. WIlliams 5. Bates 6. Amherst 7. Bowdoin 8. Wellesley 9. Vassar 10. Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
WEST-MIDWEST-SOUTH: 1. Emory 2. Johns Hopkins 3. Washington University (Mo) 4. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 5.Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 6. Washington and Lee 7.Trinity University (TX) 8.Birmingham Southern 9. Mary Washington 10.Rhodes
NORTHEAST-SOUTH: 1.Carnegie Mellon 2, SUNY-Geneseo 3. Rowan 4. Gettysburg 5. Swarthmore 6. Rochester 7. RIT 8. Allegheny 9. Ithaca 10. TCNJ
MEN:
CENTRAL: 1. Kenyon 2. Denison 3. Chicago 4. Calvin 5. Joh Carroll 6. Case Western 7. UW-Stevens Point 8. Hope 9. Carthage 10. Wabash
NORTHEAST-NORTH: 1. MIT 2. New York University 3. Williams 4. Tufts 5. Amherst 6. RPI 7. Colby 8. U.S. Coast Guard Academy 9. U.S. Merchant Marine 10. Babson
WEST-MIDWEST-SOUTH: 1. Emory 2. Johns Hopkins 3. Washington University (Mo) 4. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 5. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 6. Birmingham Southern 7. Trinity University (TX) 8. Mary Washington 9. Washington & Lee 10. California Lutheran
NORTHEAST-SOUTH: 1. Carnegie Mellon 2. Rowan 3. TCNJ 4. Franklin & Marshall 5.Gettysburg 6. Stevens 7.SUNY-Geneseo 8. Swarthmore 9. RIT 10. Rochester
Women’s Poll Committee
Jake Taber, Hope (Chair); Meg Sission French, MIT (Chair of NE-N); Dean Brownlee, Centre O(Chair of MWSW); Justin Zook, Saint Catherine’s (Chair of Central); Ben Delia, Franklin & Marshall (Chair NE-S); Shannon O’Brien, RPI; Bob Rueppel, Middlebury; Brad Burnham, Bowdoin; Jon Duncan, Southwestern; Chris Mhyre, Puget Sound; Cori Meyette, Pomona-Pitzer; Jason Webber, Chicago; Jay Daniels, Kalamazoo; Anne Ryder, UWEC; Melissa Gates, Elizabethtown; Paul Waas, Catholic; Andy Eaton, Franklin & Marshall
Men’s Poll Committee
Sean Tedesco, USMMA (Chair); Paul Bennett, WPI (Chair of NE-N); Jean-Paul Gowdy, Pomona-Pitzer (Chair of MWSW); Keith Crawford, Rose-Hulman (Chair of Central); Brad Bowser, Rowan (Chair of NE-S); Jason Webber, Chicago; Mark Fino, John Carroll; Nick Stone, Albion; Eleanore Stevens, Wash U; Brent Summers, Willemette; Nate Harding, Redlands; Justin Anderson, Mary Washington; Matt Emmert, Roger Williams; Peter Casares, Bates; Erica Belcher, Rowan; Pat Smith, Westminster; Michael Kroll, Buffalo State; David Dow, TCNJ; Paul Dotterweich, SUNY Geneseco
Wow, I guess they must have scored this out from the winter invite results. But, boy, it sure looks like Denison outscores Kenyon based on the current top times in the College Swimming database.
Confirmed:
Invite format: https://staging2.swimswam.com/swimulator/?type=conference&gender=Men&division=D3&conference=Nationals&season=2020&taper=Top+Time&date=Whole+Season&heats=16
Dual meet format: https://staging2.swimswam.com/swimulator/?type=swimulate&gender=Men&division=D3&division1=D3&team1=Denison&season1=2020&meet1=Create+Lineup&division2=D3&team2=Kenyon&season2=2020&meet2=Create+Lineup