Delmarva/D.C. rankings

Some ideas here are original. Some are imported but new around here.

And some are just simply expansions, like adding an extra wing to a McMansion.

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Such is the case with the Delmarva/D.C. rankings, a weekly attempt to rank the 29 Division I basketball programs in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District.

It’s not a poll, unless you like the idea of calling an autocratic mechanism where only one person’s vote counts a “poll.” And it probably won’t be as user-friendly as Dan Steinberg‘s well-established Atlantic 11 over on the Washington Post’s D.C. Sports Bog, though comments and e-mails and mailbag items are always welcome.

But it is the one place where you’re guaranteed to fetch a mention of Longwood and Maryland-Eastern Shore every week. Every. Single. Week. And if you like the two teams hailing from the First State, well they’re included, too.

I’ll start including some notes once there’s a little more to work with, but for now, a 1-through-29 ranking in full charty glory:

No./Team	Record	Preseason Rank
1. Georgetown	2-0	1
2. Maryland	3-0	4
3. VCU	2-1	3
4. Virginia Tech	3-2	2
5. American	3-1	5
6. Virginia	3-0	7
7. George Mason	3-1	6
8. Mount St. Mary’s	1-1	11
9. Old Dominion	1-1	8
10. VMI	3-1	26
11. UMBC	3-1	10
12. George Washington	2-1	16
13. Towson	2-1	20
14. Navy	3-1	14
15. Hampton	1-2	15
16. Morgan State	2-4	9
17. Richmond	1-1	19
18. Loyola	1-3	13
19. Radford	2-1	21
20. Delaware	1-3	12
21. James Madison	2-1	23
22. William & Mary	1-3	17
23. Coppin State	1-1	22
24. Howard	1-3	27
25. Norfolk State	1-1	24
26. Longwood	3-2	28
27. Liberty	1-1	25
28. Delaware State	1-5	18
29. UMES	0-2	29

—- Patrick Stevens