GRR: College Men
The top two teams in the Southern Conference meet up this week.
The MAC has its #1 seed but #2 and #3 probably depend on the Louisville vs Western Michigan match. Still ... regardless of the outcome they probably play each other again in the semis.
Sam Houston State vs Rice is huge in the Lonestar.
It's semifinal time in several conferences in DII college.
In the MARC, Villanova has looked solid after beating Bloomsburg to ensure an undefeated regular season.
With No. 8 Matt Rainer leading the forwards and thundering through the line, and Joe O'Regan scoring tries out wide, they are a handful.
We don't have a lot of changes this week.
Notre Dame College moves past Queens, and this is, in fact, overdue.
Everybody else did what was expected.
The body of work of a team matters a lot in these rankings so with Life playing what is currently a tougher schedule than Lindenwood, their results have been strong enough to move them past Lindenwood.
This past weekend's effort against Queens was kind of a tipping point with that.
The steady improvement of Mary Washington and Mount St. Mary's is evidenced in their move up.
The Big 10 matchups for the semis are all set even though there's a week to go in the regular season.
Indiana cannot lose their #1 spot in the Big 10 West even if they lose to Purdue (which they are not expected to do). That's because the Hoosiers have the tiebreaker over Illinois.