Keelin Winters-- and some poll previews

by Geezaldinho Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:42 am

Our friend at TopDrawerSoccer has put Keelin on the POW list for this week for her performance against Kansas and Yale and for winning the Defensive player award for the tournament.

She is showing improvement with every outing, and soon it might be hard to keep her off lists like that.

TDS has a harder task ahead of him. The top ten teams are struggling this year more than I've seen in a while, and it may be hard to sort out where they deserve to be in his tournament field.

Notre Dame has dropped off of the top shelf for sure, and North Carolina may have trouble claiming the ACC lead, if current trends continue. They are certainly having problems out of conference.

UP just climbed 1 spot to third place in the Buzz ranking, and NC dropped to 8th. As predicted, Fullerton is now ranked, though only in the West region. Looks like it might take another week or two for them to get recognition.

It'll be fun to see how the rest of the polls shake out.

South Carolina is coming out of nowhere with a 7-0 record which includes their victory against NC. If they can beat the two ranked teams ahead on their schedule in the next 3 games, they could have legitimate top 10 claims.