Men's Division III National Collegiate Top 10 Poll
| Release Date: 9/28/05 | |||
| Rank | School Name | Last
Week |
Total
Points |
| 1 | University of Redlands | 1 |
96 |
| 1 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 3 |
96 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 2 |
92 |
| 4 | Whittier College | 4 |
86 |
| 5 | Pomona Pitzer Colleges | 5 |
78 |
| 6 | University of La Verne | 6 |
76 |
| 7 | MIT | 7 |
69 |
| 8 | Claremont Mudd Scripps Colleges | 8 |
63 |
| 8 | California Lutheran University | 9 |
63 |
| 10 | Occidental College | 10 |
33 |
Procedure:
Only scores received by 12:00 Noon
EST Monday will be included in the poll.
Submit scores to office@collegiatewaterpolo.org,
or fax to 610-277-7382.
Pollsters vote Tuesday and poll is issued every Wednesday.
Poll Process
General Overview
The polls are administrated by the Collegiate Water Polo Association. There
are four polls
released on a weekly basis by this organization. Other organizations may also
have polls of
their own. The polls released by the CWPA include:
Top 20 Varsity-any varsity team in the country is eligible (NCAA and NAIA)
Top 10 Division III-any varsity Division III team in the country is eligible
Top 20 Collegiate Club-any collegiate club in the country is eligible (Big Ten, CWPA)
Top 10 CWPA-any varsity CWPA member is eligible
Distribution
Varsity polls are released to nationwide media outlets and posted on theCWPA
website
every Wednesday by 5:00 PM EST. United States Water Polo has permission to
reprint the poll on their website as well.
Collegiate Club and CWPA Top 10 polls are posted on the CWPA website and are
not released to media outlets.
Pollsters
Each poll has a set of pollsters that rank the teams. For example, there are
10 pollsters
that rank the varsity Top 20 polls. These pollsters represent all areas of the
country
andare drawn from each of the conferences and independents that make up collegiate
water polo.
The pollsters must be official representatives of their institutions and can
be either
coaches or staff from the Sports Information office.
They maintain their position unless there are consistent discrepancies in their
voting,
demonstrating either an obvious bias or a lack of understanding of the process.
New pollsters are selected through a nomination process and chosen by the staff
of
the Collegiate Water Polo Association.
Ranking
Pollsters examine scores and rank teams in light of these results. They are
charged
with ranking the teams to the best of their abilities without considering their
subjective
feelings about the strength of a team or individual factors affecting a team’s
performance,
such as injury or illness to specific athletes. Past history may affect the
rankings, although
the most recent scores bear more weight than earlier results.
Results
Only those scores received on Monday are considered for the week's poll. Any
scores
received in the office after this time are reviewed for the following week's
pollScores can
be emailed, faxed, or phoned to the office before Monday at 12:00 Noon EST.