2006: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com Tuesday, September 5, 2006 (Records include games of Monday, September 4) (First-place votes in parentheses)

Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Maryland (14)	4-0-0	398	1
2	Southern Methodist	4-0-0	371	3
3	North Carolina (1)	4-0-0	366	2
4	Virginia (1)	4-0-0	351	4
5	Clemson	4-0-0	330	6
6	Duke	4-0-0	303	8
7	Wake Forest	4-0-0	289	11
8	Notre Dame	2-1-1	270	14
9	Indiana	2-1-1	250	7
10	San Francisco	3-0-0	237	15
11	California-Santa Barbara	2-1-0	233	9t
12	Santa Clara	3-0-1	203	18t
13	Virginia Tech	3-0-0	195	24
14	St. John's	3-1-0	137	13
15	New Mexico	1-1-1	130	9t
16	Akron	3-1-0	99	25
17	California	1-2-1	93	18t
18	Washington	3-0-0	92	nr
19	Saint Louis	1-1-1	91	nr
20	Creighton	1-2-1	74	20
21	West Virginia	3-0-1	62	nr
22	South Florida	2-2-0	60	21
23	Illinois-Chicago	3-0-1	58	nr
24	UCLA	0-2-1	54	7
25	North Carolina-Greensboro	2-1-0	51	16

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

Dropped out: No. 12 Connecticut, No. 17 California State-Northridge, No. 22 Penn State, No. 23 Loyola Marymount.

Others receiving votes: South Carolina 42, Loyola Marymount 40, Kentucky 39, California-State Northridge 36, Brown 31, Fordham 30, Memphis 28, Connecticut 24, Alabama-Birmingham 23, Virginia Commonwealth 21, Old Dominion 19, Fairleigh Dickinson 17, Ohio State 11, Wisconsin 11, Yale 10, Missouri State 9, Penn State 8, College of Charleston 6, Dartmouth 4, Oregon State 2, Boston University 1, Central Connecticut 1, Drake 1, Manhattan 1.

Voting panel: Louis Bennett, Marquette; Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Ian Collins, Kentucky; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; Jeremy Fishbein, New Mexico; Mike Freitag, Indiana; Mike Getman, Alabama-Birmingham; Kevin Grimes, California; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Mike Jacobs, Evansville; Paul Krumpe, Loyola Marymount; Ken Lolla, Louisville; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; 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.

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