Ricky Nelson’s 2015 Week 3 top 25

The AVCA poll comes out on Tuesday.

My rank, (my Wk 2 rank, AVCA Wk 2 rank), record, key results last week1 (3,6). Washington-St. Louis 13-1 W: Calvin; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. L: Cal Lutheran.  2 (4,4). Juniata 11-0 W: Christopher Newport.  3 (6,8). Carthage 11-1 W: UW-Stevens Point; Dominican; Bethel. 4 (NR,10). Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 11-2 W: Emory. L: Washington-St. Louis. 5 (1,1). Emory 12-2 W: Cal Lutheran; Berry. L: Calvin; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  6 (10,9). Cal Lutheran 11-2 W: Calvin; Washington-St. Louis; La Verne. L: Emory.  7 (2,2). Calvin 9-3 W: Emory. L: Washington-St. Louis; Cal Lutheran. 8 (NR,13). Chicago 11-1 9 (5,3). Christopher Newport 12-110 (9,7). Wittenberg 10-1 W: Hope; Ohio Northern.Dropped out: No. 7 UW-Stevens Point (12-2); No. 8 Colorado College (12-1).

My top 5 matches of the week: 9/23 Chicago vs. Elmhurst 9/23 Elmhurst vs. Dominican 9/23 UW-Whitewater vs. UW-Oshkosh 9/26 UW-Stevens Point vs. Elmhurst 9/26 Carthage vs. UW-Whitewater

We began the week with 20 unbeaten teams. We’re down to six. See which teams are still contending for 2015’s Last Team Standing.

-Ricky Nelson