2005: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com 2005 Preseason (First-place votes in parentheses)

Rank	School	2004 Record	Pts	2004 Ranking
1	Indiana (16)	19-4-1	400	1
2	Maryland	17-6-2	358	3
3	California-Santa Barbara	21-2-2	350	2
4	Duke	18-6-0	341	4
5	UCLA	14-4-2	330	10
6	New Mexico	17-1-2	278	9
7	St. John's	12-6-4	273	5
8	Virginia	18-5-1	257	6
9	Southern Methodist	16-4-1	232	11t
10	North Carolina-Greensboro	19-3-1	218	7t
11	Creighton	14-4-2	205	13
12	Wake Forest	14-5-2	191	11t
13	Notre Dame	13-3-3	183	15
14	Virginia Commonwealth	12-6-3	177	7t
15	Connecticut	12-8-3	161	nr
16	Tulsa	12-7-4	157	14
17	Boston College	13-5-2	134	16
18	California	13-4-3	125	17
19	Santa Clara	15-6-0	107	23
20	Penn State	10-4-8	89	19
21	North Carolina	10-9-2	85	nr
22	Washington	11-7-2	60	24
23	Akron	13-5-3	51	nr
24	Memphis	16-4-1	49	22
25	Ohio State	12-7-2	38	nr

Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie. nr - no ranking

Others receiving votes: Northwestern 36, Loyola Marymount 35, Saint Louis 35, San Francisco 34, Old Dominion 31, Seton Hall 28, California State-Northridge 22, Michigan 18, Portland 16, Bradley 15, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 15, Stanford 10, South Carolina 9, James Madison 5, College of Charleston 4, Boston University 3, Georgetown 1.

Voting panel: Louis Bennett, Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Ian Collins, Kentucky; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; Mike Freitag, Indiana; Mike Getman, Alabama-Birmingham; Kevin Grimes, California; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Paul Krumpe, Loyola Marymount; Ken Lolla, Akron; Al Mistri, California State-Fullerton; Bob Reasso, Rutgers; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; Keith Tabatznik, Georgetown; Bob Warming, Creighton.

Voting method: On each ballot, 25 points awarded for first place, 24 for second place, 23 for third, etc., to 1 point for 25th place.