There was an interesting development last week as NCR announced their postseason plans and started using the DIAA moniker, something they hadn't been using.

We try to stay out of all of that, but this is, basically, a DIAA ranking. How do we define DIAA ... how much time do you have? Ideally this would be club teams from DI-level colleges, while DIA would be varsity or well-supported teams. It's not that simple. There are varsity and alumni-supported teams that play DIAA. Meanwhile, DIA is a specific group of teams that pay special dues to be part of that group, which is run by CRAA.

We, of course, rank some teams NOT in CRAA in our top-level DI rankings. This ranking is te NCR-ACR-Independent DI rankings. We might end up calling it the GRR-NAI DI ranking. Our DIA ranking included NCR teams and we might call it the CRAA-NCR DIA-Level ranking ... or something.

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Anyway ... Our top seven teams are all very strong and possibly any one of the seven could be #1 at some point. The SCRC insiders tell us Kentucky should  be there too. We'll see.

Clemson, Brown, and Wheeling all get big boosts. Texas State and Missouri come into the Top 45, while teams that aren't playing or who lost big (and a lot did that) drop down.

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Bowling Green	MAC	Beat Pitt
2	2	Tennessee	SCRC	Game canceled
3	3	Iowa Central CC	Independent	Beat Minnesota
4	5	U. Notre Dame	Independent	Beat Purdue
5	4	Mary Washington	Chesapeake	Beat NC State
6	6	Queens University	Chesapeake	Beat Maryland (43)
7	10	Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake	Beat Virginia Tech (13)
8	7	Dartmouth	Ivy League
9	8	Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
10	9	Kentucky	SCRC
11	25	Clemson	SCRC	Beat Alabama (21)
12	11	St. Joseph's	MARC
13	12	Western Michigan	MAC
14	16	Louisville	MAC	Beat Dayton
15	15	Cincinnati	MAC	Beat Ohio
16	34	Wheeling	Independent	Beat West Virginia
17	14	Arkansas	Heart of America
18	17	Kansas	Heart of America
19	18	Iowa State	Heart of America
20	31	Brown	Ivy League	Beat Fordham
21	19	CSULB	Gold Coast
22	22	Florida Atlantic	Florida
23	23	Arizona State	Gold Coast
24	24	South Florida	Florida
25	26	Central Florida	Florida
26	27	Western Washington	NCRC
27	28	Oregon State	NCRC
28	29	Fresno State	Pac West
29	30	UCSC	Pac West
30	Unr	Texas State	Lonestar	Beat Sam Houston State (38)
31	32	Iowa	Heart of America
32	33	IUPUI	MAC	Beat Loyola-Chicago
33	36	Chico State	Pac West
34	37	Salisbury	MARC
35	35	Georgia	SCRC
35	38	Sam Houston State	Lonestar	Lost to Texas State
36	13	Virginia Tech	Chesapeake	Lost to Mount St. Mary's (10)
37	Unr	Mizzou	Heart of America	Beat Oklahoma State
38	39	Oregon	NCRC
39	40	West Chester	MARC
40	21	Alabama	SCRC	Lost to Clemson (25)
41	20	Kennesaw State	SCRC	Game Canceled
42	41	Delaware	MARC
43	42	UT San Antonio	Lonestar	Game Canceled
44	44	Rowan	MARC
45	45	San Diego	Gold Coast