If you assume Washington is tops and Cal is #2 you'd expect SU to be tenth in the latest USRowing Collegiate Poll after last Sunday's Eastern Sprints - and if you did, you'd be right.
SU's near miss in the morning heat and even nearer miss in the Petite Final dropped the Orange men from sixth to #10. In fact the order after following Washington and Cal (after the Huskies beat the Golden Bears again last weekend) is almost exactly the order of finish in the Sprints.
The lone exception is Cornell which rose to #8 with its near miss in the heat and then squeaker over SU in the Petite Final. Columbia, which won its heat in a photo finish then wound up last in the Grand Final is sandwiched in between the Big Red and the Orange. With 14 coaches voting, Cornell is five points ahead of Columbia and ten ahead of SU.
The Orange varsity gets another shot at Dartmouth in Hanover this Sunday. The Big Green made the biggest jump in the poll, going from 12th to 7th after edging Brown and Syracuse in the morning heat in Worcester, then finishing fifth in the Grand Final.
SU's near miss in the morning heat and even nearer miss in the Petite Final dropped the Orange men from sixth to #10. In fact the order after following Washington and Cal (after the Huskies beat the Golden Bears again last weekend) is almost exactly the order of finish in the Sprints.
The lone exception is Cornell which rose to #8 with its near miss in the heat and then squeaker over SU in the Petite Final. Columbia, which won its heat in a photo finish then wound up last in the Grand Final is sandwiched in between the Big Red and the Orange. With 14 coaches voting, Cornell is five points ahead of Columbia and ten ahead of SU.
The Orange varsity gets another shot at Dartmouth in Hanover this Sunday. The Big Green made the biggest jump in the poll, going from 12th to 7th after edging Brown and Syracuse in the morning heat in Worcester, then finishing fifth in the Grand Final.
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CMax Ranks SU V8 Seventh
The fact that Wisconsin, Dartmouth and Columbia finished higher than Syracuse this past weekend did not move them past the Orange in the CMax rankings. SU dropped just one slot to number seven - estimated at 12.1 seconds behind #1 Washington. Cornell, which beat SU by .9 seconds on Sunday is rated .4 better in the CMax rankings at #6.
Polls courtesy of row2k.com
V8 photo by Tom Darling
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