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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Polls and Speculation as we await the Sprints

Just three varsity eights in the Top Twenty raced last weekend, none of them EARC crews, but USRowing put out a new Collegiate Poll this week anyway and SU’s men's varsity eight held its number six spot. Washington again is the unanimous number one – in fact numbers one through ten stayed the same except that Cornell fell out of a tenth place tie with Columbia and into the eleven spot.

Temple fell from 19th out of the poll after finishing fifth at the Dad Vail Regatta. FIT was third at the Dad Vail and moved into a 19th place tie with Williams, which won the ECAC National Invitation Regatta.

13 coaches voted this week compared to 14 the week before. Brown’s Paul Cooke and Dartmouth’s Topher Bourdeau did not vote this week, but Brown held its #3 spot and Dartmouth stayed at #15. San Diego’s Brooks Dagman was the coach who weighed in this week after not voting last week.


While the Orange (above at Windermere Cup race) ranks ahead of Princeton and Wisconsin in the national poll, SU is the six seed in the Eastern Sprints this weekend behind the #4 Badgers and #5 Tigers. What does that add up to? Probably not a lot. Syracuse is in a morning heat with EARC #1 Brown and #7 Northeastern and the general thought in rowing circles is that the top eight or nine teams are within seconds of each other.

CMax Rankings

Speaking of which, the Orange also stay at number six in this weeks CMax rankings, 9.8 seconds behind #1 Washington. The top nine crews held their spots with Northeastern moving into a tie with Columbia for tenth.

For amusement purposes - CMax has Syracuse two seconds slower than Brown, .8 seconds faster than Wisconsin, .9 faster than Princeton and 3.7 faster than Northeastern.

CMax Women’s Rankings


CMax ranks the SU Women’s V8 (above at Windermere Cup race) at 37th in the nation, 25.9 seconds behind #1 Princeton.

As for the teams SU takes on this Sunday in the EAWRC morning heat, the Orange women are rated 17.7 seconds behind Brown, 13.1 behind Dartmouth and 5.4 seconds behind Radcliffe. SU is rated 12.1 seconds faster than Boston College and 15.2 faster than MIT.


Polls and results courtesy of row2k.com

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