Final AVCA poll: Finalists the obvious choices at 1, 2
Wittenberg was No. 1 in the AVCA poll when it mattered most. The Tigers were never the top team in the AVCA poll, but a national championship title run made Wittenberg the unanimous choice as the the No. 1 team in the country. Fellow finalist Christopher Newport was second in the poll.
No. 3 Eastern, Calvin and Carthage rounded out the final top five, followed by No. 6 Washington-St. Louis, St. Thomas, Emory, Cal Lutheran and Juniata. That’s not far off from how I thought the final top 10 of 2011 should look.
Central and Midwest teams in the final 2011 AVCA poll:
5. Carthage 34-7
6. Washington-St. Louis 34-2
7. St. Thomas 32-5
11. Concordia-Moorhead 27-4
17. Chicago 30-6
19. Elmhurst 31-6
21. UW-Whitewater 26-8
24. UW-Stevens Point 26-8
Receiving votes: (None).
I think Cornell (28-6) and St. Scholastica (27-7) should have received votes. And some of the records on the final poll were incorrect, according to team sites.
-Ricky Nelson
