Ohio State Rowing Earns Top Spot in USRowing/CRCA Poll – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/31/2004 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
March 31, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State earned its highest ranking in program history, when it came in No. 1 in the first regular season USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association poll released Wednesday. The Buckeyes earned 10 first-place votes to move up from their ninth-place preseason ranking March 11.
OSU’s previous highest ranking was set in the 2002 season, when OSU was No. 3 twice during the season.
The honor comes after Ohio State’s first varsity eight upset No. 1 Brown and No. 3 Princeton March 27 on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J. The first varsity eight posted its first victory of the year, outrunning the Princeton top boat by 4.63 seconds, finishing the race in 6:26.2 to Princeton’s 6:30.83 and Brown’s 6:32.80. For their accomplishment, the varsity eight earned Big Ten Boat of the Week, March 29.
Ohio State will play host to defending 2003 Big Ten Champion No. 4 Michigan at 10 a.m. Saturday at Griggs Reservoir on the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio.
USRowing/CRCA
Division I Varsity Eight Coaches Poll
March 31, 2004
Rk Team (1st-place votes) Points Prv. Rk 1. Ohio State (10) 383 9 2. UC Berkeley (2) 245 11 3. Princeton 335 T3 4. Michigan (2) 316 2 5. Harvard (3) 303 5 6. Brown 300 1 7. Yale (3) 298 T3 8. Virginia 287 7 9. Michigan State 244 8 10. Washington 224 10 11. USC 177 12 12. Washington State 165 15 13. Boston 147 16 14. Tennessee 142 13 15. Syracuse 102 17 16. Cornell 95 NR 17. Stanford (1) 88 6 18. Duke 76 18 19. Texas 67 14 20. Notre Dame 31 NR
Also receiving votes: Wisconsin 21, Iowa 18, Minnesota 14, Oregon State 8, Pennsylvania 8, Boston College 2, Clemson 2, UC Los Angeles 2.
