NAPERVILLE — One season removed from advancing to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament, both Millikin and Illinois Wesleyan appeared in the preseason AVCA/TARAFLEX Division III poll on Monday. The Big Blue were ranked 12th, while Illinois Wesleyan checked in at #19.
Millikin received 1,098 points in the poll. MU won 31 matches a year ago, including a 6-2 mark in the CCIW. The Big Blue was picked second in a preseason CCIW coaches’ poll on Tuesday.
Illinois Wesleyan – the preseason CCIW favorite – had 628 points in Monday’s national rankings. IWU swept last season’s CCIW regular-season and tournament championships, part of a 24-win campaign.
Juniata snagged 79 of 86 first-place votes to claim the #1 spot in the preseason AVCA poll. Wisconsin-Whitewater was second, followed by Hope, Johns Hopkins and Emory.
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), Carroll University (Waukesha, Wis.), Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.), Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Ill.), Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.), North Central College (Naperville, Ill.), North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).