CIS TOP TEN TUESDAY: Brock tops initial women's wrestling rankings
January 14, 2014

CIS TOP TEN TUESDAY: Brock tops initial women's wrestling rankings

OTTAWA (CIS) – The Brock University women and University of Alberta men, both reigning national champions, top the first wrestling rankings of the 2014 CIS season.

Brock, which claimed its second straight CIS banner last winter, opens ahead of Alberta, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Western in women’s competition. On the men’s side, Alberta, crowned last year for the first time since 1972, is ranked ahead of Brock, Western, Concordia and Saskatchewan.

In other CIS sports, Carleton (men’s basketball), Saint Mary’s (women’s basketball), McGill (women’s hockey), Calgary (men’s hockey), UBC (women’s swimming & women’s volleyball), Toronto (men’s swimming) and McMaster (men’s volleyball) all maintain their No. 1 status this week.

McMaster was tied with Trinity Western atop the men’s volleyball rankings last Tuesday but edged its Canada West rival by a single point in the new coaches’ poll, 257 to 256. The Marauders received 15 first-place votes compared to 13 for the Spartans.

Voting was also close in women’s basketball this week, with No. 1 Saint Mary’s earning 24 first-place votes and 475 points compared to 17 first-place nods and 468 points for the Windsor Lancers, the defending three-time CIS champs.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

1. Saint Mary’s (10-0) / 475 points (24) / (1)
2. Windsor (11-1) / 468 (17) / (2)
3. Alberta (10-2) / 405 / (3)
4. Saskatchewan (11-1) / 368 / (4)
5. Regina (10-2) / 331 / (5)
6. McGill (6-0) / 289 / (6)
7. Concordia (3-3) / 185 / (8)
8. Ottawa (8-3) / 182 / (10)
9. Wilfrid Laurier (10-2) / 162 / (9)
10. Fraser Valley (8-4) / 152 / (7)

Other teams receiving votes: Western (71), McMaster (32).

MEN’S BASKETBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

1. Carleton (11-0) / 480 points (40) / (1)
2. Ottawa (10-1) / 437 / (2)
3. Alberta (11-1) / 403 / (3)
4. Ryerson (11-1) / 360 / (4)
5. Victoria (10-2) / 313 / (5)
6. McMaster (9-3) / 280 / (8)
7. McGill (5-1) / 234 / (6)
8. Saskatchewan (9-3) / 171 / (7)
9. Acadia (7-2) / 151 / (NR)
10. Windsor (7-5) / 113 / (10)

Other teams receiving votes: UNB (110), Laurentian (38).

WOMEN’S HOCKEY
(regular season record) / (previous rankings)

1. McGill (11-0-0) / (1)
2. Montreal (8-3-0) / (3)
3. Wilfrid Laurier (13-2-2) / (2) 
4. Queen’s (13-2-3) / (4)
5. UBC (16-3-1) / (5)
6. Guelph (13-3-0) / (6)
7. StFX (12-3-1) / (7)
8. Alberta (12-5-3) / (8)
9. Saskatchewan (12-4-4) / (9)
10. Saint Mary’s (12-3-0) / (NR)

MEN’S HOCKEY
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

1. Calgary (17-0-1) / 169 points (16) / (1)
2. Alberta (16-2-0) / 149 / (2)
3. Acadia (15-1-2) / 141 (1) / (3)
4. UNB (14-3-1) / 113 / (4)
5. McGill (14-5-1) / 88 / (6)
6. UQTR (14-4-0) / 70 / (8)
7. Carleton (13-5-1) / 54 / (9)
8. Ryerson (14-5-0) / 51 / (10)
9. Lakehead (13-4-1) / 42 / (5)
10. Queen’s (12-2-5) / 35 / (7)

Other teams receiving votes: Saskatchewan (12), UPEI (4), StFX (4), Moncton (2), Western (1).

WOMEN’S SWIMMING
(points) / (previous rankings)

1. UBC 659 points / (1)
2. Montreal 354 / (2)
3. Toronto 346 / (3)
4. Calgary 240 / (4)
5. Western 208 / (5)
6. Laval 200 / (6)
7. Dalhousie 150 / (7)
8. McGill 145 / (8)
9. Ottawa 117 / (9)
10. Alberta 102 / (10)

MEN’S SWIMMING
(points) / (previous rankings)

1. Toronto 517 points / (1)
2. UBC 422 / (2)
3. Calgary 308 / (3)
4. Alberta 282 / (4)
5. Western 192 / (5)
6. McMaster 185 / (6)
7. Montreal 149 / (7)
8. Dalhousie 145 / (8)
9. McGill 126 / (9)
10. Victoria 120 / (10)

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
(regular season record) / (votes) / (previous rankings)

1. UBC (14-0) / 60 points / (1)
2. Brandon (11-3) / 53 / (4)
3. Montreal (11-3) / 51 / (2)
4. UBC Okanagan (10-4) / 48 / (3)
5. Trinity Western (10-4) / 47 / (5)
6. Ottawa (12-1) / 38 / (7)
7. Laval (11-3) / 33 / (9)
T8. York (10-2) / 31 / (6)
T8. Manitoba (8-6) / 31 / (8)
10. Saint Mary’s (6-3) / 25 / (10)

Next highest votes: Dalhousie (18), McGill (14), Toronto (9), Saskatchewan (8), Guelph (5).

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

1. McMaster (12-0) / 257 points (15) / (T1)
2. Trinity Western (13-1) / 256 (13) / (T1)
3. Alberta (10-4) / 214 / (T3)
4. Thompson Rivers (10-4) / 170 / (7)
5. UBC (9-5) / 156 / (T3)
6. Laval (9-2) / 137 / (6)
7. Brandon (7-7) / 105 / (5)
8. Saskatchewan (5-9) / 55 / (8)
9. Manitoba (6-8) / 44 / (9)
10. Waterloo (9-3) / 38 / (NR)

WOMEN’S WRESTLING (first ranking of season)
(points) / (previous rankings)

1. Brock / (-)
2. Alberta / (-)
3. Calgary / (-)
4. Saskatchewan / (-)
5. Western / (-)
6. Regina / (-)
7. Lakehead / (-)
8. Guelph / (-)
9. UNB / (-)
10. Concordia / (-)

MEN’S WRESTLING (first ranking of season)
(points) / (previous rankings)

1. Alberta / (-)
2. Brock / (-)
3. Western / (-)
4. Concordia / (-)
5. Saskatchewan / (-)
6. McMaster / (-)
7. UNB / (-)
8. Regina / (-)
9. Winnipeg / (-)
10. Guelph / (-)