D-I Poll: Defending Champs Lurking

Published: Apr 20, 2016

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ATLANTA – They started the season with a whimper, losing to unranked Utah Valley, but defending champion Grand Canyon has slowly built up its momentum and sits once again in the No. 4 spot in the Under Armour MCLA Division I Coaches Poll, which was released on Wednesday.

Since starting the season with a 2-3 mark, the Lopes have rattled off seven consecutive win, and are now less than 30 points out of third and 76 off the top spot held by Chapman. Georgia Tech remains behind the No. 1 Panthers followed by Cal Poly.

The Top 5 in the poll are unchanged from last week.

Cal-Berkeley is the only new entrant into the poll this week, supplanting Minnesota.

Under Armour MCLA Division I Coaches Poll

Rank	Team	Points	1st votes
1.	Chapman	648	24
2.	Georgia Tech	617	2
3.	Cal Poly	601
4.	Grand Canyon	572
5.	Colorado	544
6.	Colorado State	506
7.	Brigham Young	445
8.	Boston College	443
9.	Arizona	429
10.	Arizona State	402
11.	Stanford	386
12.	UC Santa Barbara	367
13.	Oregon	333
14.	Oregon State	282
15.	Liberty	265
16.	Florida State	248
17.	Connecticut	206
18.	Virginia Tech	182
19.	Davenport	151
20.	Southern Methodist	133
21.	New Hampshire	127
22.	San Diego State	112
23.	Sonoma State	89
24.	UNLV	71
25.	Cal-Berkeley	56

Receiving votes: Texas State (47), Minnesota (46), Georgia (43), Utah Valley (37), Simon Fraser (19), Boise State (17), Michigan State (15), Northeastern (4), Pittsburgh (4), Washington (2), Santa Clara (1).