2025 Women's Soccer Top 25

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10/7/25 Women's Top 25 Poll is now up:

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-diii-women/

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Watched the Endicott vs #5 Tufts game yesterday.  Endicott kept the game scoreless through roughly 80 minutes and then Tufts scored two goals in one minute to secure a 2-0 win!

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Messiah loses to Rowan 1-2 on the road!

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Messiah comes back from their loss to Rowan and takes care of business on a quick turn-a-round road game in Philadelphia by beating Eastern 5-1.  They will definitely fall from #1 but may be able to stay in the top #10.??

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CURSE FLO$PORT$!  What a slate of games tomorrow from the UAA:
   At 12:30:   (#4) Wash U at (#3) Case Western
   At 1:30:     (#2) Emory at (#8) Brandeis .. deiscanton may be able to give us a recap of this one.?
   At 1:30:     (#6) Chicago at (#8) Carnegie Mellon
                .. and if that is not enough ..
   At 7:30:   (#22) Rochester at (#25) NYU

If you are an early bird and NESCAC if more your flavor:
   At 11am:  (#12) Middlebury at (#26) Colby
     .. staying in NESCAC ..
   At 1pm:   (#20) Wesleyan at (#9) Williams

again, CURSE FLO$PORT$!

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edit:  Carnegie Mellon is #16

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I think Emory is the only team where taking over #1 in the next USC poll is entirely under their control.  If they win tomorrow, they should be #1 no matter what any other team does.  However, if they don't win, then the scenarios of who becomes #1 becomes much more complicated depending on the results of the other (UAA) games, and the potential for ties really makes it interesting!

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I think Emory is the only team where taking over #1 in the next USC poll is entirely under their control.  If they win tomorrow, they should be #1 no matter what any other team does.  However, if they don't win, then the scenarios of who becomes #1 becomes much more complicated depending on the results of the other (UAA) games, and the potential for ties really makes it interesting!

Respectfully disagree.

Before the game, I would have said this about Washington University, but in the first half, Bears are taking it to No. 3 Case Western Reserve.  How can a 1-0-1 team bypass that?  Maybe if the Spartans catch fire and turn the tables.

If the Spartans are the No. 3 team in the nation, the Bears may seriously be in a class all by themselves.  Lot's of soccer to be played though.

[deiscanton]

 Some quick thoughts on the Emory vs Brandeis women's soccer game.

As a reminder of how tough the UAA is in Division III, Brandeis came into today's UAA contest not having won a UAA women's soccer conference match since November 6, 2021, when the Judges defeated NYU at NYU's former home stadium of Gaelic Park on the Manhattan College campus in Riverdale, NY.   Since then, including today's loss vs Emory, the Brandeis women's soccer team has a record of zero wins, 21 losses, and 2 ties in UAA conference play.  In the previous 2 seasons, every other UAA team save for Brandeis made the field for the NCAA DIII women's soccer tournament in both years. 

From my perspective as a Brandeis fan, I would have been more than satisfied with a tie vs Emory today.  I had my hopes up that like the men, the Brandeis women could get an equalizer in the second half when the Judges only were down 1-0 at halftime, but the turning point of the match came when the Judges got a penalty kick early in the second half, but could not convert the penalty kick for the equalizer thanks to the Emory goalkeeper guessing correctly and making the save off of Caroline Alcock's penalty kick attempt to equalize.   It was only the second penalty kick attempt in the run of play of Caroline Alcock's college career, and I would hate to see her remembered for the failure of that kick to tie the score.  I felt a little deflated after the failed penalty kick, and Emory then capitalized just a few minutes later to make it 2-0 for the Eagles.  Emory went on to win 3-0, and the Judges now have to prepare for Rochester next Saturday.

It could go either way in the national polls this week, but right now, I have Emory at #1, and WashU at #2 with the two teams playing each other in Atlanta on Sunday, October 26 for a potential #1 vs #2 showdown.  However, I can't blame supporters who would rank WashU at #1 right now given the Bears getting a 2-0 lead at CWRU and making it stand for the 2-1 win today at DiSanto Field. 

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Case Western Reserve played well throughout the final 20 minutes and got one back, with two other dangerous opportunities.

There are 4-5 teams that have an argument for the No. 1 ranking.

The easy thing for the coaches would be to stick with the status quo.

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Thanks for that recap deiscanton on what I am sure was a tough game as a fan.

I do think Emory will be #1 with Wash U #2 in Tuesday's poll.  If I had to guess I would have Tufts, Chicago, and Pomona-Pitzer moving up to #3, #4, and #5 respectively.  After that I don't know where teams will fall .. I don't know how far Messiah will move down or Rowan will move up.

WUPHF, there is no way I would want to argue that Wash U is not the strongest team in D3 right now!  I just don't see the USC poll having #4 who beat #3 on the road jump the #2 team who beat #8 on the road.  I think they will keep them in their current order but just move them up.  However, with Emory, Wash U, and Chicago all yet to play each other this season I'm thinking a lot of the questioning of who is number 1 (at the end of the regular season) will hopefully be answered on the pitch and I wouldn't be surprised if that is Wash U by the end of the season.

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If anybody watched any of the UAA games on Flo$port$, how was the streaming/video quality?  I'm still tempted to pay for a one month subscription to see some of the UAA games remaining this season if the video feed is dependable.  I'm thinking that with their typical video quality before Flo$port$, they should be ok now.??