University of North Carolina Athletics
Women's Lacrosse Moves Up to No. 6 in This Week's IWLCA Poll
May 2, 2001 | Women's Lacrosse
May 2, 2001
Chapel Hill, N.C. --The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team moved up to No. 6 in this week's Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association poll, released Tuesday by the IWLCA. The Tar Heels, who lost to this week's No. 4 team, Dartmouth, and defeated Massachusetts last weekend, were ranked seventh last week after three weeks at No. 6 in early April.
UNC was ranked No. 5 in the preseason and climbed to No. 4 for a week in early March before falling to No. 8 for back-to-back weeks in mid-March. During a difficult stretch of five consecutive games played away from Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels defeated Johns Hopkins and Loyola but lost to No. 1 Maryland, No. 7 Boston University and No. 4 Duke. The
Carolina has completed its 2001 regular season and awaits an NCAA Tournament bid, to be announced on Sunday evening. The Tar Heels hope for a top-eight seed in the 16-team tournament field, which would ensure home-field advantage in the first round of play, set to begin late next week.
