2016 NCAA regional rankings: Chicago enters at #8 in Midwest

The NCAA published the second set of 2016 regional rankings today.

Central (Last Week Rank) 1 (1). Northwestern 2 (2). Gustavus Adolphus 3 (4). Washington-St. Louis 4 (5). Augsburg 5 (3). St. Thomas 6 (7). Luther 7 (6). Saint Mary’s (Minn.) 8 (8). Wartburg

Midwest 1 (1). UW-La Crosse 2 (3). UW-Whitewater 3 (4). UW-Oshkosh 4 (2). Elmhurst 5 (7). Millikin 6 (5). UW-Eau Claire 7 (6). UW-Stevens Point 8 (NR). Chicago Dropped out: No. 8 Illinois Wesleyan

Top four teams in other regions: Great Lakes: 1. Calvin; 2. Wittenberg; 3. Ohio Northern; 4. DePauw. Mid-Atlantic: 1. Mary Washington;  2. Juniata; 3. Eastern; 4. Carnegie Mellon. New England: 1. Tufts; 2. MIT; 3. Springfield; 4. UMass Boston. New York: 1. Stevens; 2. Ithaca; 3. Ramapo; 4. Brockport. South: 1. Emory; 2. Randolph-Macon; 3. Hendrix; 4. Birmingham-Southern. West: 1. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; 2. Cal Lutheran; 3. Southwestern; 4. Texas Dallas.

-Ricky Nelson