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Mountaineers Retain No. 1 Ranking
October 24, 2016 03:24 PM | Women's Soccer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The newly crowned 2016 Big 12 Conference champion West Virginia University women’s soccer team is ranked No. 1 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com Women’s Top 25 Poll for the third straight week.
The Mountaineers (15-1-1, 7-0) also sit at No. 2 in the sixth NCAA RPI of the season. WVU hit No. 1 last week for the first time in program history.
South Carolina (16-0-1, 10-0 SEC) continues to rank No. 2 and is followed by USC (13-3, 7-1 Pac-12) at No. 3, Stanford (14-1-1, 7-1 Pac-12) at No. 4 and BYU (13-2-1, 3-1-1 WCC) at No. 5.
Duke (12-3-2, 7-1-1 ACC) ranks No. 6, and Virginia (12-3-2, 5-2-2 ACC) sits at No. 7. UCLA (12-3-1, 6-1-1 Pac-12), Florida State (12-2-2, 6-1-2 ACC) and Notre Dame (11-2-4, 6-1-2 ACC) round out the top 10.
Two Big 12 teams also are ranked this week, with Kansas (9-4-4, 4-1-2) checking in at No. 22 and Oklahoma (12-4-2, 4-2-1) following at No. 24.
The Cardinal leapfrog the Mountaineers in this week’s RPI and sit at No. 1. The Gamecocks follow WVU at No. 3, while BYU checks in at No. 4 and is followed by OU at No. 5.
USC ranks No. 6, while UVA is No. 7 and UCLA is No. 8. Georgetown (13-2-2, 4-1-2 Big East) and Clemson (12-3-2, 6-1-2 ACC) round out the top 10.
WVU is 7-1-1 against teams ranked in this week’s NCAA RPI top 50.
The Mountaineers clinched their fifth straight outright Big 12 title with a 3-0 win at TCU on Oct. 21.
WVU rides an eight-match win streak into its regular-season finale on Oct. 28, against Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. It’s Senior Night, and WVU will honor its four seniors prior to first kick. Trunk or Treat will be held in the Coliseum Blue Gate parking lot from 5-7 p.m., and any youths in eighth grade or below dressed in costume will receive free admission into the match. Additionally, the first 150 WVU students through the gate Friday night will receive a free WVU bucket hat, courtesy of Coca Cola.
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