The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) released the February edition of the Division I Top 25 dual meet poll. The Arizona State men and the University of Virginia women continue to be voted as the top teams in Division I.
The committee, consisting of Division I coaches, assesses and ranks the nation’s top 25 dual meet teams. Their evaluation takes into account head-to-head dual meet outcomes, performances since the last rankings, season-long performances, dual meet records, roster changes (such as injuries), and data from the SwimCloud Simulator. It’s important to note that the poll’s objective is not to predict the top finishers in a championship meet format.
In the men’s rankings, Arizona State (350), Cal (326), NC State (322), and Florida (311) all held strong on their positions in the top 5. Indiana breaks into the top five with 297 points, jumping Stanford (283) after strong showings against top 25 teams Louisville (14th) and Wisconsin (21st). In what was a relatively quiet stretch since our last poll, there was not much movement up or down the top 25, and only Harvard at 22 makes their debut after a breakout performance at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton annual Tri-Meet. Thirty teams received votes in this month’s poll.
On the women’s side, the top-ranked Cavaliers (375) continued to set the standard in Division I after being unanimously chosen as the top team. The Texas women (360) collected every second-place vote, while Florida (345) held off a surging Southern California (330), which moved up 3 spots after knocking off both fifth-ranked Stanford and seventh-ranked Cal in one of the most exciting meets of the year. The aforementioned Southern Cal, from seventh to fourth, and Indiana, ninth to sixth, saw the poll’s biggest movement, jumping three spots each. There were no new teams in the February edition of the poll, and 27 teams received votes.
You can find a complete list of the rankings at: www.cscaa.org/top25
Each committee includes ten representatives from the Power Five leagues and five at-large programs. The committee chairs for women and men are Naya Higashijima (NMU) and Bill Roberts (Navy), respectively.
The final 2023-2024 dual meet poll is set to release on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
