Thursday, July 07, 2005

UMass listed as #14 in preseason Sports Network Article

The Sports Network has an article by Matt Dougherty listing his preseason rankings for entire I-AA division. Read the article here . Note that this is not the Sports Network "official" preseason rankings. The article is a good read covering all 98 scholarship teams and it also ranks the non-scholarship "Mid-Majors"

The A10 does well in his article with five teams in the top 20.

  • #3 James Madison
  • #6 New Hampshire
  • #11 William & Mary (not on this year's UMass schedule)
  • #13 Delaware
  • #14 UMass
  • #17 Hofstra
The rest of the A10 is listed this way:

  • #27 Villanova (not on this year's UMass schedule)
  • #35 Maine
  • #39 Richmond
  • #49 Northeastern
  • #62 Rhode Island
  • #70 Towson (not on this year's UMass Schedule)
The non-conference portion of UMass' schedule is listed this way:

  • #44 Colgate
In the Mid-Major section:

  • #9 Albany
UMass' lone I-A opponent Army is not covered by the article, but Athlon Sports lists them as #101 out of 119 I-AA teams.