USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25

March 12, 1997

Rankings

Rank Team Record Points Previous
1 Arizona (25) 25-0 625 1
2 Fresno State 16-1 594 2
3 UCLA 22-4 575 3
4 South Carolina 19-2 549 4
5 Washington 16-5 509 5
6 Michigan 18-5-1 468 7
7 Iowa 10-3 436 9
8 Cal Poly 22-3 411 13
9 Minnesota 19-5 375 10
10 Long Beach State 18-8 365 6
11 Oklahoma State 17-7 337 14
12 Arizona State 13-5 330 8
13 Oklahoma 20-8 327 15
14 USF 19-5 302 11
15 Missouri 13-2 281 16
16 Michigan State 18-4 213 25
17 California 11-10 211 12
18 Florida State 17-9 199 17
19 Pacific (California) 14-5 193 22
20 Louisiana Tech 19-9 135 20
21 CSUN 8-7-2 104 18
22 Baylor 19-8 66 24
23 Louisiana 9-8 62 19
24 Louisiana-Monroe 15-3 57
25 San Diego State 14-6 55

Others receiving votes:

Cal State Sacramento (49), Hawaii (35), Texas (31), Tennessee (28), Nicholls State (26), Utah (25), Cal State Fullerton (22), Indiana (21), UC Santa Barbara (19), DePaul (13), Kansas (12), Princeton (11), Illinois-Chicago (8), Massachusetts (8), Ohio State (8), Boston College (6), Illinois State (6), UNLV (6), Florida (5), Colorado State (3), Louisiana State (2), Creighton (1) and Notre Dame (1).

Dropped out:

Utah (21), UNLV (23).

All Polls for Division I in 1997

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