Revisiting my preseason top 25

I swung for the fence in the SCIAC and whiffed. Three of my preseason top 25 teams didn’t make the NCAA Championship, but I was out in front with Nebraska Wesleyan, Coe and some others.

Fun fact: Nebraska Wesleyan and Carthage did not appear in the 2014 AVCA preseason poll.

Below is my preseason top 25, which was published July 7. It’s not entirely embarrassing.

1. Emory 2. Wittenberg 3. Hope 4. St. Thomas 5. Juniata 6. Wisconsin-Whitewater 7. Washington-St. Louis 8. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 9. Calvin 10. Trinity (TX) 11. Saint Benedict 12. Pacific Lutheran 13. Pomona-Pitzer 14. Eastern 15. Mount Union 16. Colorado College 17. Christopher Newport 18. Nebraska Wesleyan 19. Coe 20. Millikin 21. Texas-Dallas 22. Ohio Northern 23. Cal Lutheran 24. Mary Hardin-Baylor 25. DePauw

Next 20 (in no particular order): Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; Bethany; UMass-Boston; Webster; Elmhurst; Clarkson; Williams; Otterbein; Stevenson; Augsburg; Thomas More; Randolph-Macon; Concordia-Moorhead; Susquehanna; Carthage; Cornell; Franklin & Marshall; Chicago; UC Santa Cruz; Southwestern.

-Ricky Nelson