Below is how teams in the top 15 coaches poll fared this week. Ball State University is outside of the coaches poll and listed at No. 16 with 18 votes. Ball State defeated Grand Canyon on Thursday and will play Carthage College on Friday at Worthen Arena before the next coaches poll is released at about 5:30 p.m. Monday.
1. USC (defeated No. 8 Long Beach State and No. 12 UC San Diego)
2. Cal State Northridge (defeated No. 4 UC Irvine; lost to No. 10 UCLA)
3. Stanford (lost to No. 5 BYU; defeated No. 5 BYU)
4. UC Irvine (lost to No. 2 Cal State Northridge and No. 11 UC Santa Barbara)
5. BYU (defeated No. 3 Stanford; lost to No. 3 Stanford)
6. Penn State (defeated Springfield)
7. Pepperdine (lost to No. 12 UC San Diego and No. 8 Long Beach State)
8. Long Beach State (lost to No. 1 USC; defeated No. 7 Pepperdine)
9. Hawai'i (defeated Pacific twice)
10. UCLA (defeated No. 11 UC Santa Barbara and No. 2 Cal State Northridge)
11. UC Santa Barbara (lost to No. 10 UCLA; defeated No. 4 UC Irvine)
12. UC San Diego (defeated No. 7 Pepperdine; lost to No. 1 USC)
13. Ohio State (defeated Juniata and Grand Canyon twice)
14. Lewis (defeated Rutgers-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology)
15. St. Francis (defeated New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers-Newark)
Bold indicates teams that lost