Final Fall 2012 Midwest Collegiate Sailing Rankings

With the completion of the Timme-Angston Memorial regatta, the Fall MCSA conference sailing docket is nearly complete. Accordingly, SailMichigan has compiled the numbers from this Fall's results to provide the rankings below. Sixteen regattas were used in the evaluation (excluded were Team-Race regattas and gender-specific regattas). Overall, active MCSA teams sailed in an average of 4.3 of the evaluated regattas. Accordingly, 4 was the magic number for inclusion in these rankings. To be ranked, a given university/college must have competed in a minimum of 4 regattas. For those who had sailed in more than 4 evaluated regattas, only the top 4 performances were used in the calculations. Rankings as of Nov. 21, 2012:

Rank	University	Score
1	University of Michigan	12.2
2	University of Wisconsin	14.6
3	University of Minnesota	20.7
4	Northwestern University	35.8
5	Michigan State University	39.9
6	Purdue University	43.2
7	Ohio State University	46.4
8	Miami University	51.0
9	Western Michigan University	55.6
10	Bowling Green State University	57.2
11	University of Toledo	57.7
12	University of Notre Dame	58.8
13	Michigan Technological University	63.1
14	Marquette University	63.4
15	University of Illinois - Chicago	75.6
16	Hope College	122.6
17	Indiana University	141.7

There was a bit of shuffling in the top 5 since the previous rankings. Denison University was dropped from the rankings for not making the 4 regatta cut-off and University of Michigan appears at the top for the first time this year. This movement by Michigan is undoubtedly due to their strong performance in the Timme-Angston and the Timme Tune-up. Other big movers this cycle were Western Michigan (up 4), Purdue (up 3), Michigan State (up 2) and Ohio State (down 4). Although 3 schools (Denison, University of Akron, and Northern Michigan) left the rankings this cycle, only (Denison), could have influenced the above moves.

The latest Sailing World coaches poll (Nov. 21) did not include any MCSA team in the rankings. Although the rankings above are not affiliated or endorsed by the ICSA/MCSA, SailMichigan provides these rankings to generate interest in Midwest collegiate sailing and to serve as a starting point for discussion. If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to contribute them below or on the SailMichigan forum.