Week 5 Rankings
After a light week of games this past week, the WCLO will see the biggest weekend of the 2025 season thus far with three Friday night faceoffs, fourteen games on Saturday and eighteen matchups on Sunday. The rankings continue to remain pretty stagnant through the break, but are bound to shake up over the next three weeks. On Tuesday, #5 St. Thomas will square off against WCLA D1 Minnesota. The Tommies look to repeat as they defeated Minnesota in the regular season in 2024. #6 Fairfield will also be pairing up with a WCLA D1 team are set to play Rhode Island at home Sunday evening. Also seeing out of league competition this coming week are 2024 National tournament attendees, Sacred Heart; they will face WCLA D2 Quinnipiac at home Saturday, then play host to 2023 National tournament attendees, WPI, and Syracuse University.
We also look forward to some Top 20 matchups this weekend within the WCLO. #2 Navy will take on #T16 American at home on Saturday, and then will head to George Washington University to face VCU and #13 George Washington. #4 St. Joseph will play Duquesne University for a MAWLL/WCLL matchup. The Hawks will also play WCLA D2 West Chester. #T8 Grand Valley will continue their season after a long hiatus and will see three games against Illinois State, Michigan State ‘B’ and Oakland.
#1 Loyola Maryland will not see action again until Week 6 where they will play two statement matchups against newcomers New Hampshire, as well as, a National Championship rematch against Fairfield University.
Take a look at the full Week 5 Top 20 below and head over to our Schedule Tab to check out all of the games being played this weekend!
Week 5 Top 20:
1. Loyola- Maryland (4-1)
2. US Naval Academy (4-1)
3. University of Vermont (6-0)
4. St. Joseph (1-2) ↑2
5. St. Thomas (5-0) ↓1
6. Fairfield (3-0) ↓1
7. Georgetown (2-1)
T8. University of New Hampshire (3-1) ↑1
T8. Grand Valley State (0-1) ↑2
10. Wake Forest (3-0) ↓2
11. High Point University (3-1)
12. West Virginia (3-1)
13. George Washington (3-2) ↑1
14. University of Kentucky (3-1) ↓1
15. Air Force (3-1)
T16. Binghamton (1-0)
T16. American (4-2) ↑3
18. Marist (3-1)
19. Tufts (0-2) ↑1
20. Towson (7-3) ↓3