Men All-D1 College Rankings Week 2

This is our second week of what we're calling the All-D1 rankings, which basically takes out the CRAA teams (that's the easiest way to explain it).

We have several changes, which is something we warned you about. Our early rankings are based on the best information available and when the actual games happen, we have better data.

Some highlights include Notre Dame jumping 19 places to #8 after beating Western Michigan, and Kentucky jumping eight places after beating Louisville. Now, here's the problem with that. Notre Dame's jump is based largely on our assumption that Western Michigan (who we had at #5 and dropped to #13) is a very strong team. This is probably true, but let's assume, for a moment, that WMU will end up having a down year and Louisville, who were competitive in a loss to Kentucky, are actually a top-four team ... then the basis for the current ranking is wrong, and we will have to reevaluate.

Notre Dame's high ranking, for now, is based on one game. If that game turns out to not be as indicative as we thought, they could well drop down even if they keep winning.

A few more changes. We had our preseason rankings and then waited a week before unleashing Week 2, so we have to take into account Fairfield's close loss to Iona. Wheeling needed to show us something to get into the Top 50, and while a 76-point win over small-college Franciscan wasn't what we'd call dispositive, it's enough for now.

Speaking of enough for now—Iowa Centra CC's win wasn't what you'd call "convincing" but we're keeping them at #1 for now. But we're watching it closely.

We moved Florida Atlantic up to #23 despite the fact they didn't play a game. Why? Well, the explanation is very technical but can be summed up this way: we screwed up. Basically we left FAU in our "what do we do about these guys" list and didn't really take them out of it. We also didn't take into account the spring Florida U23 competition, which is a bit of a rankings minefield, but which a team of all FAU players won. We should have had them ranked higher, so we do now.

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Iowa Central CC	Independent	Beat Marian
2	4	Bowling Green	MAC	Beat Michigan
3	8	Tennessee	SCRC	Beat Ohio State
4	2	Dartmouth	Ivy League
5	3	Queens University	Chesapeake	Lost to Army
6	6	Mary Washington	Chesapeake
7	7	Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
8	27	U. Notre Dame	Independent	Beat Western Michigan (5)
9	17	Kentucky	SCRC	Beat Louisville (16)
10	10	Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake	Lost to St. Bonaventure
11	9	St. Joseph's	MARC
12	11	Iona	Liberty
13	5	Western Michigan	MAC	Lost to U. Notre Dame
14	12	Virginia Tech	Chesapeake
15	13	Arkansas	Heart of America
16	14	Cincinnati	MAC
17	15	AIC	Liberty
18	16	Louisville	MAC	Lost to Kentucky (17)
19	18	CSULB	Gold Coast
20	19	Northeastern	Liberty
21	20	Kennesaw State	SCRC
22	21	Alabama	SCRC
23	42	Florida Atlantic	Florida
24	22	Iowa State	Heart of America
25	23	Arizona State	Gold Coast
26	24	South Florida	Florida
27	25	Kansas	Heart of America
28	26	Clemson	SCRC
29	28	Boston College	Liberty
30	50	Fairfield	Liberty	Close loss to Ion (11)
31	30	Central Florida	Florida
32	31	Western Washington	NCRC
33	32	Oregon State	NCRC
34	33	Fresno State	Pac West
35	34	UCSC	Pac West
36	47	Fordham	Liberty	Beat Syracuse (39)
37	35	Iowa	Heart of America
38	36	Buffalo	Liberty
39	37	Chico State	Pac West
40	38	Salisbury	MARC
41	46	IUPUI	MAC	Lost to Purdue
42	Unr	Wheeling	Independent	Beat Franciscan
43	29	NC State	Chesapeake	Lost to UNC Wilmington
44	40	Sam Houston State	Lonestar
45	41	Oregon	NCRC
46	43	West Chester	MARC
47	44	Delaware	MARC
48	45	UT San Antonio	Lonestar
49	48	Brown	Ivy League
50	49	Rowan	MARC