The USILA Division I Men's Lacrosse Coaches' Poll for March 8 has been released. Defending champion Syracuse is again #1, garnering all 10 first-place votes (13 were cast last week). The remainder of the of top 5 is also unchanged from the previous poll. New to the list this week is Lafayette, with Navy dropping out of the top 20.

You'll find links to teams' schedules and scores using the rankings on the Polls page.

Rank  Team                    Pts (1st)  Prev.
 1    Virginia (4-0)           240 (12)    2
 2    Syracuse (2-1)           219         1
 3    Notre Dame (3-0)         217         3
 4    North Carolina (5-0)     205         4
 5    Maryland (3-0)           191         6
 6    Princeton (2-0)          186         7
 7    Johns Hopkins (3-1)      160         5
 8    Cornell (3-0)            158         8
 9    Loyola (2-1)             124        10
10t   Duke (2-2)               117         9
10t   Hofstra (1-1)            117        11
12    Georgetown (2-1)         110        14
13    Harvard (2-1)             71        15
14    Delaware (4-1)            70        16
15    Stony Brook (2-1)         62        17
16    Lafayette (4-0)           53        20
17    Yale (2-0)                50        NR
18    Navy (3-2)                34        NR
19    Massachusetts (2-1)       33        12
20    Bucknell (2-2)            32        13

Also receiving votes: Drexel, Robert Morris, Brown, UMBC, Sacred Heart, Villanova, Ohio State, Marist

2010-03-08