After North Carolina improved to 12-0 and held off Notre Dame (6-3) in a deluge, the top eight teams in the Nike / US Lacrosse Division I Women’s Top 20 remain unchanged.
That doesn’t mean, however, that there wasn’t a lot of movement. Thank the Big 10 and its unpredictability apart from No. 2 Northwestern’s dominance, for the new look this week. After almost a month without a game, Johns Hopkins won two in three days over Penn State and Rutgers to break into the rankings at No. 14. The Blue Jays head to College Park on Wednesday to take on No. 12 Maryland.