USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25

March 5, 1997

Rankings

Rank Team Record Points Previous
1 Arizona (25) 21-0 625 1
2 Fresno State 10-1 587 2
3 UCLA 20-4 576 3
4 South Carolina 11-2 546 6
5 Washington 16-5 516 4
6 Long Beach State 17-5 445 7
7 Michigan 9-3-1 443 5
8 Arizona State 11-3 364 15
9 Iowa 5-1 355 9
10 Minnesota 19-5 323 11
11 USF 14-2 318 12
12 California 10-7 305 10
13 Cal Poly 18-2 301 19
14 Oklahoma State 12-6 282 8
15 Oklahoma 15-8 268 17
16 Missouri 11-2 260 20
17 Florida State 13-6 226 16
18 CSUN 7-4-2 178 14
19 Louisiana 7--6 157 13
20 Louisiana Tech 13-7 144
21 Utah 9-5 107
22 Pacific (California) 9-4 94
23 UNLV 7-6 84 23
24 Baylor 13-6 79 22
25 Michigan State 9-2 75

Others receiving votes:

Cal State Fullerton ((72), Hawaii (66), Tennessee (40), Princeton (36), Nebraska (35), Illinois State (25), San Diego State (24), Florida (22), Nicholls State (22), Kansas (18), Stanford (16), DePaul (15), Colorado State (10), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (8), Creighton (4), Northeast Louisiana (3), Southwest Missouri State (3), Utah State (3), Notre Dame (2).

Dropped out:

Cal State Fullerton (18), Princeton (21) , Hawaii (24), Nicholls State (25).

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