AVCA Poll - March 25

[roy]

Rank School (First-Place Votes Total Points 2003 Record * Last Week
1 Pepperdine (13)
3/28 at #6 Pacific; 3/29 at #11 Stanford 234 18-2 1
2 Hawai'i (3)
3/26 at UC San Diego; 3/28 at UC San Diego 227 17-5 2
3 BYU
3/28 vs. #4 Long Beach St.; 3/29 vs. #4 Long Beach St. 199 16-5 3
4 Long Beach State
3/28 at #3 BYU; 3/29 at #3 BYU 191 15-8 4
5 Lewis
3/28 vs. IPFW 170 21-4 5
6 Pacific
3/28 vs. #1 Pepperdine; 3/29 vs. USC 153 14-10 6
7 Cal State Northridge
3/27 vs. #10 UCLA; 3/29 at #8 UC Irvine 133 15-9 10
8 UC Irvine
3/27 vs. #15 UC Santa Barbara; 3/29 vs. #7 Cal St. Northridge 128 15-8 7
9 Penn State
3/26 at Juniata (Div. III #1); 3/28 vs. #14 Ohio St.; 3/29 vs. Rutgers-Newark 120 16-5 8
10 UCLA
3/27 vs. #7 Cal St. Northridge 106 13-11 9
11 Stanford
3/28 vs. USC; 3/29 vs. #1 Pepperdine 95 11-10 11
12 Ball State
3/28 vs. #13 Loyola-Chicago; 3/29 at Findlay 43 13-7 13
13 Loyola-Chicago
3/28 at #12 Ball St. 42 14-6 12
14 Ohio State
3/26 vs. Findlay; 3/28 at #9 Penn St.; 3/29 at George Mason 33 13-7 14
15 UC Santa Barbara
3/25 vs. La Verne (Div. III #4); 3/27 at #8 UC Irvine 27 8-16 15

Others receiving points and listed on two or more ballots: IPFW (12); UC San Diego (6).

1 team mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 1 combined point.

Next Poll: April 2, 2003

* 2003 Record as of March 23

[sweetieVBfan]

okay, i know most of the conversations about the poll revolve around the top 4 or 5 teams.

but does anyone notice that UC San Diego has 6 points and USC isn't even on the list? i'm going to assume that USC is the team with one point.

i don't understand it. USC has beaten Lewis AND UCSD. why don't they have more points?

just trying to stick up for the little guy.

[CardiffLocal]

UCSD has a couple of decent wins (although against the same team)and also show pretty well against some good teams

def Ohio St 30-28, 30-23, 30-15

def Ohio St 26-30, 30-27, 30-26, 30-20


decent showings against top teams

loss to UCLA 30-28, 30-24, 28-30, 31-29

lost to Irvine 27-30, 30-21, 30-26, 30-21

lost to Stanford 30-24, 34-32, 31-33, 30-24

lost to Irvine 32-30, 36-34, 30-28

lost to UCLA 37-35, 30-23, 30-26

los to BYU 28-30, 30-23, 30-27. 30-22

lost to BYU 30-28, 30-28, 30-27


with exception to some scores in the losses to UCLA and Stanford, they pretty much hung with them throughout the games even taking some games off of them

Plus, UCSD just defeated USC on March 12