By Torrey Hart on SwimSwam
The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) released its final TYR Top-25 poll of 2017 early last week, featuring some reshuffling amongst the top three teams on both the men’s and women’s side. The polls are voted on by CSCAA member-coaches, with a focus on head-t0-head-competition, rather than NCAA score-ability.
For the men, the only teams to claim a spot in the CSCAA top 3 this year remain there. While Kenyon claimed the preseason #1 spot, it fell to third in the November edition, but has climbed back up to second following strong performances and mid- and late-November invitationals. Denison maintains the #1 spot for the second edition in a row following its commanding performance at the Miami Invitational in early December, while Emory took 4th.
In the women’s rankings, Denison jumped NYU and Johns Hopkins following a third-place finish at the Miami Invitational, while Kenyon just edged out Emory based mostly on its speedy swims at the Total Performance Invite.
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CSCAA December 19th Rankings
| Division III Men | Division III Women | |||||||
| Rank | Prev | Team | Points | Rank | Prev | Team | Points | |
| 1 | 1 | Denison | 272 | 1 | 2 | Kenyon | 248 | |
| 2 | 3 | Kenyon | 261 | 2 | 1 | Emory | 240 | |
| 3 | 2 | Emory | 257 | 3 | 6 | Denison | 230 | |
| 4 | 4 | MIT | 242 | 4 | 4 | Johns Hopkins | 219 | |
| 5 | 5 | Johns Hopkins | 232 | 5 | 3 | Williams | 207 | |
| 6 | 6 | NYU | 215 | 6 | 5 | NYU | 194 | |
| 7 | 7 | WashU | 206 | 7 | 7 | Chicago | 187 | |
| 8 | 8 | Chicago | 203 | 8 | 8 | MIT | 182 | |
| 9 | 9 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 177 | 9 | 10 | WashU | 179 | |
| 10 | 13 | Carnegie Mellon | 160 | 10 | 8 | Carnegie Mellon | 163 | |
| 11 | 10 | Pomona-Pitzer | 157 | 11 | 13 | Washington & Lee | 143 | |
| 12 | 16 | Amherst | 156 | 12 | 16 | Calvin | 133 | |
| 13 | 11 | Tufts | 147 | 13 | 19 | Pomona-Pitzer | 118 | |
| 14 | 17 | Calvin | 127 | 14 | NR | Tufts | 106 | |
| 15 | 15 | Rowan | 123 | 15 | 12 | Amherst | 104 | |
| 16 | 18 | TCNJ | 107 | 16 | 22 | Case Western Reserve | 99 | |
| 17 | 20 | UW-Stevens Point | 99 | 17 | 15 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 97 | |
| 18 | 12 | Williams | 94 | 18 | 14 | Saint Thomas | 93 | |
| 19 | 14 | Carthage | 76 | 19 | 21 | RPI | 54 | |
| 20 | NR | Trinity (TX) | 60 | 20 | 20 | Ursinus | 51 | |
| 21 | 23 | WPI | 51 | 21 | 18 | Bates | 42 | |
| 22 | 21 | Coast Guard | 46 | 22 | 24 | SUNY Geneseo | 40 | |
| 23 | NR | Rose-Hulman | 34 | 23 | 11 | Conn College | 31 | |
| 24 | 24 | DePauw | 23 | 24 | NR | Trinity (TX) | 30 | |
| 25 | 22 | Stevens | 22 | 25 | NR | Rowan | 17 |
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