Who's winning these pools?
May 13, 2025 by Charlie Eisenhood in News
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The seeding and pools for the Division I College Championships were released earlier today by USA Ultimate.
Here are the pools and schedules at the 2025 D-I College Championships! Ultiworld will be livestreaming five games per round from the tournament — a full streaming schedule will be out later this week.
D-I Women’s Division
Notes
- As usual, these seedings stay tightly connected to the USAU post-Regionals rankings. That extends even to keeping Carleton ahead of the undefeated Tufts, who got a head-to-head win against Syzygy early in the season. That’s certainly a surprise — the 75 point power rating differential must have outweighed Tufts’ win in the minds of the seeding committee.
- UNC is bumped ahead of Stanford to avoid a Southwest triplet in Pool A. UCSB gets some boost for their Southwest Regionals win, but they don’t jump past Stanford, who had the stronger regular season.
- These rankings are quite close to Ultiworld’s predictions, though we had Tufts and Carleton swapped and UCSB in front of Stanford.
D-I Men’s Division
Notes
- It was always going to be interesting to see how the very strong top five seeds without much differentiation would be treated. Our predictions were ultimately way off — we had Colorado / UNC / UMass / Oregon / Carleton. USAU seems to have put the teams into two buckets — Oregon and UMass in one, and Colorado, Carleton, and UNC in another. Those two groups were separated by about 30 rankings points. UMass was 1-0 vs. Oregon this season, so they leapfrogged them for the #1 seed. Colorado went 1-0 vs. Carleton and split with UNC, beating them later in the season en route to their Easterns win. Carleton was 3 points in front of UNC in the rankings; the two teams did not play each other yet this season.
- UMass has to feel fortunate getting the #1 seed as they lost in the finals of each of their big regular season tournaments — to Carleton at Warm Up, to UNC at Smoky Mountain Invite, and to Colorado at Easterns.
- Otherwise, these rankings are tightly tied to the rankings, though Vermont jumped past Georgia and UBC, which helps clean up some regional rematches (Vermont/Northeastern, UBC/Oregon State/Utah).
