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BRIDGEPORT, PA (September 19, 2007) – Six teams can lay claim to being ranked #1 as the September 19 Collegiate Water Polo Association Top 10, Division III Top 10, National Collegiate Varsity Top 20 and National Collegiate Club Men's Water Polo polls were released to the media.

In the CWPA poll, three teams are tied for #1 as Bucknell University and St. Francis College (NY) moved into a tie for the top spot with the United States Naval Academy. Navy, which was a unanimous pick as the top team in the league as the Midshipmen earned 100 points in the preseason and Week 1 and 2 polls, saw its uncontested spot as the #1 team in the league erased as Bucknell moved up from third and St. Francis from second place with 95 points to bring parity to the league standings. Princeton University, which fell to Bucknell 13-12 in overtime last weekend, remained fourth in the poll with 84 points, while Brown University moved out of a tie with George Washington University for sixth place in the September 12 poll and into a tie with Johns Hopkins University for fifth place this week as both the Bluejays and Bears earned 76 points. George Washington University slipped to seventh in the poll with 73 points due to the Hopkins-Brown tie at fifth. Mercyhurst was the biggest mover of the week jumping from outside the Top 10 to eighth place with 49 points, while Harvard University remained ninth with 47 points. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology joins Mercyhurst as a new team in the Top 10 as the Engineers jumped to 10th place with 38 points after not receiving a vote last week. Fordham and Iona College, which were ranked eighth and 10th a week ago, fell out of the Top 10 with 34 and 13 points, respectively.

Men's CWPA Top 10 Poll

	September 19 Poll
Rank	School Name	9/12 Poll	Total Points
1	Bucknell University	3	95
1	St. Francis College (NY)	2	95
1	United States Naval Academy	1	95
4	Princeton University	4	84
5	Brown University	6	76
5	Johns Hopkins University	5	76
7	George Washington University	6	73
8	Mercyhurst College	RV	49
9	Harvard University	9	47
10	MIT	NR	38
RV	Fordham University	8	34
RV	Iona College	10	13

In the Division III poll, Johns Hopkins University completed its climb to the top of the rankings as the Bluejays garnered 98 points to edge out former unanimous #1 selection the University of Redlands (95 points). The ranking marks the first time in nearly a year that Hopkins is ranked #1 as the Bluejays and Redlands were tied with 99 points for the #1 spot in the September 27, 2006 poll. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and California Lutheran University remained in third and fourth place with 88 and 83 points, respectively. The biggest mover of the week was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which improved from eighth place to fifth place with 78 points to leap over the University of California-Santa Cruz (75 points), Claremont Mudd Scripps Colleges (72 points) and Chapman College (65 points) which rank sixth, seventh and eighth in this week's poll. Occidental College (65 points) is tied with Chapman for eighth place and the University of La Verne (44 points) ranks 10th to round out the poll.

Men's Division III National Collegiate Top 10 Poll

	September 19 Poll
Rank	School Name	9/12 Poll	Total Points
1	Johns Hopkins University	2	98
2	University of Redlands	1	95
3	Pomona-Pitzer Colleges	3	88
4	California Lutheran University	4	83
5	MIT	8	78
6	University of California, Santa Cruz	6	75
7	Claremont Mudd Scripps Colleges	5	72
8	Chapman University	7	65
8	Occidental College	9	65
10	University of LaVerne	10	44
RV	Washington & Jefferson College	RV	11

The Varsity Top 20 poll saw the University of Southern California's lead as the #1 team in the country widen as the Trojans are a unanimous pick as the top team in the country after grabbing all but one first place vote a week ago. The University of California-Berkeley held onto the #2 spot for a third week with 95 points after trailing USC 99-to-97 last week.

Men's Varsity Top 20 Poll

	September 19 Poll
Rank	School Name	9/12 Poll	Total Points
1	University of Southern California	1	100
2	University of California, Berkeley	2	95
3	University of California, Los Angeles	3	90
4	Stanford University	4	84
5	Pepperdine University	6	79
6	University of California, Irvine	5	78
7	Long Beach State University	9	68
8	University of California, Santa Barbara	7	67
9	University of California, Davis	8	61
10	Loyola Marymount University	11	52
11	Bucknell University	12	46
12	University of California, San Diego	14	43
13	United States Naval Academy	10	42
14	St. Francis College (NY)	13	37
15	University of the Pacific	16	35
16	Princeton University	15	26
17	United States Air Force Academy	17	18
18	California Baptist University	19	15
19	University of Redlands	18	7
20	Brown University	RV	5
RV	Johns Hopkins University	20	4
RV	George Washington University	RV	2
RV	Santa Clara University	RV	1
RV	California Lutheran University	NR	1

Following the first week of compeition in the National Collegiate Club ranks, the Top 10 teams in the nation remain unchanged as Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, Cal Poly State University, University of Arizona, Florida International University, University of Texas, Williams College, University of California-San Diego, Slippery Rock University and University of Washington stayed #1-10, respectively.

The bottom 20 of the poll saw dramatic shifts as Purdue University leaped from #20 to #12 to start a process which saw only one team (#19 University of Oregon) retain its ranking from a week ago.

Men's Collegiate Club Top 20 Poll

	September 19 Poll
Rank	School Name	9/12 Poll	Total Points
1	Michigan State University	1	100
2	Grand Valley State University	2	95
3	Cal Poly State University	3	90
4	University of Arizona	4	85
5	Florida International University	5	80
6	University of Texas	6	75
7	Williams College	7	70
8	University of California, San Diego	8	67
9	Slippery Rock University	9	60
10	University of Washington	10	55
11	University of California, Los Angeles	12	49
12	Purdue University	20	38
13	Miami University (OH)	14	35
14	University of California, Davis	15	34
15	Virginia Tech	13	33
16	University of Michigan	11	28
17	Villanova University	16	21
18	University of Notre Dame	17	17
19	University of Oregon	19	11
20	Boston College	18	6
RV	Middlebury College	NR	2
RV	Yale University	RV	1

The National Varsity Top 20, CWPA, Division III and National Collegiate Club polls will be released each Wednesday during the season by 5:00 p.m.