If anyone still had questions about Marquette’s legitimacy as a national power this year, those questions were answered over the weekend, when the Golden Panthers toppled unbeaten UConn, the No. 1 team in the SBI College Soccer Top 25 at the time.
Marquette handed the Huskies their first loss of the season to not only maintain one of only two perfect records in the nation (Cornell holding the other), it also cemented Marquette’s status as a serious contender for the Big East title and a potential NCAA run later this year.
Out West, we saw UCSB, UCLA and New Mexico all suffer defeats, with Washington and Cal-State Northridge benefiting from the upsets to secure their own places in the latest SBI Top 25.
The biggest mover in the new rankings is VCU, which debuts at No. 20 after a 4-1 mauling of Charlotte. Other teams that enjoyed big jumps are unbeaten Xavier and surprising Elon.
Here is the latest SBI Men’s Soccer Top 25:
SBI MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER TOP 25
(last week’s rank in parentheses)
1. (2)- MARYLAND (12-0-1)
2. (4)- NORTH CAROLINA (10-1-1)
4. (8)- MARQUETTE (12-0)
3. (5)- AKRON (7-1-2)
5. (1)- UCONN (11-1-1)
6. (9)- NOTRE DAME (10-3)
7. (3)- GEORGETOWN (11-2-1)
8. (13)- XAVIER (9-0-2)
9. (14)- INDIANA (9-2-1)
10. (6)- UCSB (8-1-3)
11. (7)- NEW MEXICO (9-2)
12. (16)- COASTAL CAROLINA (9-1-2)
13. (10)- UCLA (8-2-2)
14. (11). OLD DOMINION (7-1-2)
15. (12)- ST. JOHN’S (8-1-4)
16. (19)- NORTHWESTERN (8-2-2)
17. (22) ELON (8-2-1)
18. (18)- SAINT LOUIS (7-3)
19. (17)- FURMAN (9-2-2)
20 (NR)- VCU (6-1-3)
21. (15)- CHARLOTTE (7-2-2)
22. (23) SMU (8-2-2)
23. (24) CORNELL (11-0)
24. (NR) WASHINGTON (7-3-2)
25. (NR) CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (9-4)
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HONORABLE MENTION– High Point (10-1-1), Wake Forest (7-2-4), Louisville (7-4), Tulsa (8-4), Creighton (8-3-2), West Virginia (7-3-2), Boston College (6-3-2), UAB (6-3-2), South Florida (6-2-4), Dayton (7-3), SIU-Edwardsville (8-4), Niagara (7-0-4).