2023 Week 2 regional rankings: Northwestern, Oshkosh among No. 1s

The second regional rankings are out. Week 2 rankings, like last week’s alphabetical listings, are not worth fighting about.

Region VIII1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh 2. Wisconsin-Whitewater 3. North Park 4. Transylvania 5. Washington-St. Louis 6. Mount St. Joseph 7. Wisconsin-Stevens Point My order: UWO; UWW; Transy; WashU; NPU; MSJ; Platteville.

Region IX1. Northwestern 2. Cornell 3. Gustavus Adolphus 4. Saint Benedict 5. St. Olaf 6. St. Catherine 7. Dubuque My order: UNW; Cornell; Gustavus; CSB; Olaf; St. Kate’s; Augsburg.

Top four in other regionsI: Wesleyan (Conn.); Middlebury; Colby; Tufts.II: MIT; Springfield; Babson; Coast Guard.III: Ithaca; Cortland; New Paltz; Rochester.IV: NYU; Stockton; Kean; Stevens.V: Juniata; Johns Hopkins; Salisbury; Gettysburg.VI: Emory; Berry; Mary Washington; Covenant.VII: Hope; Calvin; Carnegie Mellon; Otterbein.X: Trinity (Texas); Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; La Verne; East Texas Baptist.

The third rankings, which matter quite a bit and are worth fighting about, come out Nov. 8. Those third rankings will be the last ones we’ll see before selections are made.

-Ricky Nelson