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Back-to-back national champion Oklahoma went wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in 2022 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Sooners (59-3), who were the unanimous No. 1 in all but one poll this season, have been atop the rankings for 29 consecutive weeks.
Fifty-four student-athletes from 43 different institutions have been voted to one of three 2022 NFCA Division II All-America teams. Augustana, captured four All-America honors, while UT Tyler was one of eight programs with two honorees and joined the Vikings as the only programs with multiple first teamers.
Oklahoma, the NCAA’s No. 1 overall seed, heads into the postseason atop the final 2022 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll of the regular season. The Sooners (49-2) received 31 of a possible 32 first-place votes and 799 points. Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament champs Florida State picked up one first-place vote and moved into the No. 2 ranking.
UT Tyler earned the top seed in the NCAA South Central Region and will enter the 64-team field as the No. 1 team in the final 2022 Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll of the regular season. Fresh of conference regular-season and tournament titles, Augustana and Southern Indiana enter the top 10 this week.
While Oklahoma enters its 27th consecutive week at No. 1, Arizona State and Duke cracked the top 10 for the first time this season in this week’s 2022 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Sooners (48-1) swept No. 7 Oklahoma State in Bedlam and captured their 10th consecutive Big 12 regular-season title.