Conferences brought a few more shakeups than expected, in addition to deciding over half the bids to the women's D-III championships
April 18, 2025 by Ultiworld in Rankings
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D-I Women’s Division Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Change | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dropped from rankings: Texas (25) | |||
| 1 | Tufts | - | 1 |
| 2 | Carleton | - | 2 |
| 3 | Colorado | - | 3 |
| 4 | British Columbia | - | 4 |
| 5 | Vermont | +1 | 6 |
| 6 | Oregon | -1 | 5 |
| 7 | Michigan | - | 7 |
| 8 | Cal Poly SLO | - | 8 |
| 9 | Washington | - | 9 |
| 10 | North Carolina | - | 10 |
| 11 | Stanford | - | 11 |
| 12 | UC San Diego | - | 12 |
| 13 | UC Santa Cruz | - | 13 |
| 14 | Utah | - | 14 |
| 15 | Western Washington | +4 | 19 |
| 16 | Victoria | -1 | 15 |
| 17 | UC Santa Barbara | +1 | 18 |
| 18 | Notre Dame | +3 | 21 |
| 19 | BYU | -2 | 17 |
| 20 | UC Davis | -4 | 16 |
| 21 | UCLA | -1 | 20 |
| 22 | Virginia | - | 22 |
| 23 | Ohio State | - | 23 |
| 24 | Minnesota | - | 24 |
| 25 | Georgia | - | |
D-I Women’s Division Discussion
- A head-scratching 5th-place finish in Cascadia conferences dropped Oregon Fugue a touch this week, even if it doesn’t do much to diminish their overall postseason prospects
- The same Cascadia Conference tournament saw a brief rise for Western Washington Chaos.
- Always take conferences with a grain of salt, sure, but nevertheless it’s good to see some life from Notre Dame Echo, who scored a confidence- and ranking-boosting head-to-head win over Great Lakes despots Michigan Flywheel.
- Welcome back to the rankings, Georgia! Athena’s conference win over Georgia Tech Wreck (paired with previous #25 Texas Melee at the hands of UT-Dallas Whiplash) lands them back on the list.
D-I Men’s Division Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Change | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dropped from rankings: UNC Wilmington (25) | |||
| 1 | Colorado | - | 1 |
| 2 | North Carolina | - | 2 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | - | 3 |
| 4 | Oregon | - | 4 |
| 5 | Carleton | - | 5 |
| 6 | Cal Poly SLO | - | 6 |
| 7 | BYU | - | 7 |
| 8 | Oregon State | - | 8 |
| 9 | California | - | 9 |
| 10 | Washington | - | 10 |
| 11 | UC Santa Cruz | +1 | 12 |
| 12 | Brown | -1 | 11 |
| 13 | Georgia | - | 13 |
| 14 | Tufts | - | 14 |
| 15 | Texas | - | 15 |
| 16 | Northeastern | - | 16 |
| 17 | Western Washington | - | 17 |
| 18 | Penn State | - | 18 |
| 19 | Georgia Tech | - | 19 |
| 20 | Victoria | - | 20 |
| 21 | British Columbia | - | 21 |
| 22 | Vermont | - | 22 |
| 23 | Washington University | - | 23 |
| 24 | Minnesota | - | 24 |
| 25 | South Carolina | - | |
D-I Men’s Division Discussion
- Only two changes, and both the result of one-point Conferences losses: Brown to #22 Vermont at Greater New England, and South Carolina taking UNC Wilmington’s place thanks to a head-to-head win at Carolina Conferences.
D-III Women’s Division Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Change | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dropped from rankings: Lehigh (22), Swarthmore (23), Trinity (24) | |||
| 1 | Wesleyan | +1 | 2 |
| 2 | Haverford and Bryn Mawr | +1 | 3 |
| 3 | Whitman | +1 | 4 |
| 4 | St. Olaf | +1 | 5 |
| 5 | Carleton Eclipse | -4 | 1 |
| 6 | Davenport | +1 | 7 |
| 7 | Kenyon | +5 | 12 |
| 8 | Lewis & Clark | -2 | 6 |
| 9 | Michigan Tech | +6 | 15 |
| 10 | Rice | +3 | 13 |
| 11 | Colorado College | -3 | 8 |
| 12 | Mount Holyoke | +2 | 14 |
| 13 | Union | +3 | 16 |
| 14 | Middlebury | -5 | 9 |
| 15 | Puget Sound | - | |
| 16 | Portland | -6 | 10 |
| 17 | Williams | - | 17 |
| 18 | Rochester | - | 18 |
| 19 | Claremont | - | 19 |
| 20 | Grinnell | - | |
| 21 | Macalester | -10 | 11 |
| 22 | Ithaca | -2 | 20 |
| 23 | Wellesley | -2 | 21 |
| 24 | Richmond | +1 | 25 |
| 25 | Scranton | - | |
D-III Women’s Division Discussion
- What a weekend. Over half the Nationals attendees were decided in just the first weekend of the postseason, and only a few favorites easily took their region in Davenport, Richmond, Union, and Whitman, and all receive slight rankings bumps. Beyond that, chaos.
- Carleton Eclipse are knocked from the #1 perch they held all season after losing the North Central final to St. Olaf, who they slot just behind. Then in the game-to-go, Michigan Tech had Eclipse on the ropes, leading last year’s finalists before surrendering a run to miss out on the last bid. For their efforts, the Ma’s are up six spots.
- Grinnell are back in the rankings and gaining a reputation for bracket upsets, taking out Macalester in the backdoor bracket before falling to a determined Michigan Tech squad.
- Also back in the rankings are Scranton Electric City Ultimate, a Series-only team similarly infamous for making some noise at Conferences. They made the Pennsylvania final after scoring an upset against a ranked team for the second year in a row, this time former #22 Lehigh.
- Portland continued the infamous D-III tradition of winning the title one year and missing Nationals altogether the next. Previously unranked Puget Sound launched an offensive to edge out Lewis & Clark in semis, landing Clearcut a bid to Nationals for the first time since 2021 and a spot at #15. That set UPRoar up across #8 Lewis & Clark in the game-to-go, and Artemis have had Portland’s number all season. They secured the NW’s last bid while improving to 5-0 against UPRoar.
- We said it could happen: down 10-4, Rice scored eight in a row to pull past Colorado College in the South Central final and claim the region’s sole bid to Nationals. Torque actually lost to CoCo first thing Sunday morning to finish out pool play and determine bracket seeding, but flipped the result when it mattered most to return to the big dance after a two year hiatus.
- Middlebury tumble down the board after suffering an inexplicable loss to unranked Bowdoin. We’ll see if it’s a conferences hoax in two weeks.
D-III Men’s Division Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Change | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dropped from rankings: Asbury (11), Lipscomb (25) | |||
| 1 | Davenport | - | 1 |
| 2 | Elon | - | 2 |
| 3 | Middlebury | - | 3 |
| 4 | Wesleyan | - | 4 |
| 5 | Lewis & Clark | - | 5 |
| 6 | Whitman | - | 6 |
| 7 | Oklahoma Christian | - | 7 |
| 8 | Williams | +1 | 9 |
| 9 | Rochester | +3 | 12 |
| 10 | Colorado College | +3 | 13 |
| 11 | Richmond | +3 | 14 |
| 12 | St. Olaf | +3 | 15 |
| 13 | Franciscan | -3 | 10 |
| 14 | Carleton CHOP | -6 | 8 |
| 15 | Missouri S&T | +2 | 17 |
| 16 | Berry | +5 | 21 |
| 17 | Bowdoin | +1 | 18 |
| 18 | Bates | -2 | 16 |
| 19 | Kenyon | - | |
| 20 | Puget Sound | +2 | 22 |
| 21 | Colorado School of Mines | +2 | 23 |
| 22 | Claremont | +2 | 24 |
| 23 | Davidson | - | |
| 24 | UNC Asheville | -5 | 19 |
| 25 | Oberlin | -5 | 20 |
D-III Men’s Division Discussion
- Goodbye, so long, and farewell to two of 2025’s most bizarre flashes-in-the-pan: both Lipscomb (did not play) and Asbury (played well below the level that earned the Great Lakes a strength bid) fall all the way out of the picture.
- Trouble in the Ohio Valley? Franciscan and Oberlin both suffered losses at the hands of Kenyon, and they face the rankings consequences as a result.
