2019 AVCA Week 4 poll: 5 teams getting 1st-place votes

Reigning national champion Emory is back atop the rankings by a narrow margin in the ACVA Week 4 poll. Emory, the top-ranked team the first three polls of the year, received 48 of 78 first-place votes to edge out previous No. 1 Calvin by 40 poll points. Calvin got 16 top votes.

No. 3 Chicago, which handed Calvin its lone loss of the year, picked up 10 first-place votes while No. 4 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps got two. No. Babson 17, one of five remaining unbeaten teams in the country, moved up four spots and accounted for the final two first-place votes.

Central and Midwest teams in the Week 4 top 25: No. 6 Carthage; No. 9 Saint Benedict; No. 13 Wisconsin-Whitewater; No. 14 Augsburg; No. 16 Wisconsin-Eau Claire; No. 21 St. Thomas.

Central and Midwest region teams receiving votes this week: Washington-St. Louis; St Olaf; Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Gustavus Adolphus; Loras; Aurora; Northwestern.

My Week 4 top 10 had Augsburg, Carnegie Mellon and Wisconsin-Whitewater instead of Johnson & Wales (R.I.), Berry and Saint Benedict.

-Ricky Nelson