Boston College Athletics
Men's Soccer No. 3 In First RPI Rankings
October 17, 2007 | Men's Soccer
Oct. 17, 2007
Boston College men's soccer is ranked No. 3 in the NCAA's initial RPI rankings of the 2007 season.
Wake Forest, the nation's top-ranked team according to the Soccer America poll, is first in the RPI. Northwestern is No. 2 in the RPI poll.
The Eagles are one of five ACC teams ranked among the RPI's top 20 schools, along with No. 10 Virginia Tech, No. 14 Maryland and No. 18 North Carolina.
The Eagles fell to Providence 1-0 on Tuesday (Oct. 16) night and are 7-3-1. BC has a 4-0-0 mark in ACC play and travel to Virginia for a league match on Friday, Oct. 19. Game time in Charlottesville is set for 7 p.m. and a video broadcast is available over the internet at accselect.com.
The ranking of all 202 teams was generated on Oct. 15.
The RPI -- Ratings Percentage Index -- is used by the NCAA to determine which teams will receive at-large bids into the NCAA tournament following the regular season.
RPI Rankings - Oct. 151. Wake Forest 2. Northwestern 3. Boston College 4. Connecticut 5. Creighton 6. Brown 7. Notre Dame 8. Indiana 9. Harvard 10. Virginia Tech 11. Tulsa 12. Santa Clara 13. Ohio State 14. Maryland 15. Quinnipiac 16. UC Santa Barbara 17. St. Louis 18. North Carolina 19. South Florida 20. Fairfield
