With 2024 Women’s NCAAs concluding two weeks ago, we’ve decided to review the change in points as well as place among the top 25 teams. It is important to note that the bottom of this list (especially after 20th place) has a lot of movement due to much closer team finishes. For example, LSU fell from 13th to 21st over the last year and a shift of -68 points but some of that can be attributed to, for example, the loss of Maggie MacNeil who scored 53 individual points.
The Risers:
- The Florida women clearly rose to (almost) the top this year. They moved from 9th to 3rd as a team and more than doubled their points total going from 179 to 364.
- Three team’s in this year’s top 20 moved up 11 spots. Michigan moved from 23rd to 12th, Texas A&M moved from 25th to 14th, and Auburn moved from 30th to 19th. Points-wise, Michigan had the largest increase of the three teams and the 2nd largest increase overall only behind Florida as Michigan scored 114.5 more points this year with 147.5 compared to just 33 last year.
- Outside of the top 20, UCLA and Utah were big risers. UCLA moved up 12 spots from 34th to 22nd while Utah moved up from 39th to 25th.
The Fallers
- Ohio State and NC State both fell slightly and the team’s notably both tied for 9th this season. The team’s still had successful seasons each finishing in the top 10 once again.
- UNC fell seven spots from 10th to 17th and scored about half the amount of points they scored last year with most losses coming on the swimming side rather than the diving side.
| 2023 Points | 2024 Points | Plus/Minus | 2023 Finish | 2024 Finish | Plus/Minus | |
| Virginia | 541.5 | 527.5 | -14 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Texas | 414.5 | 441 | 26.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Florida | 179 | 364 | 185 | 9 | 3 | 6 |
| Tennessee | 214 | 277 | 63 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Stanford | 333 | 250 | -83 | 3 | 5 | -2 |
| Louisville | 288 | 212 | -76 | 4 | 6 | -2 |
| Indiana | 219 | 206 | -13 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| USC | 125 | 200 | 75 | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| Ohio State | 223 | 162 | -61 | 6 | t-9 | -3 |
| NC State | 263 | 162 | -101 | 5 | t-9 | -4 |
| Cal | 137 | 153 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Michigan | 33 | 147.5 | 114.5 | 23 | 12 | 11 |
| Georgia | 90.5 | 116 | 25.5 | 16 | 13 | 3 |
| Texas A&M | 26 | 104 | 78 | 25 | 14 | 11 |
| Wisconsin | 100 | 95 | -5 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Duke | 42 | 80 | 38 | 21 | 16 | 5 |
| UNC | 152 | 77 | -75 | 10 | 17 | -7 |
| Purdue | 32 | 57 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 6 |
| Auburn | 14 | 54 | 40 | 30 | 19 | 11 |
| Minnesota | 53 | 47 | -6 | 17 | 20 | -3 |
| LSU | 112 | 44 | -68 | 13 | 21 | -8 |
| UCLA | 8 | 36 | 28 | 34 | 22 | 12 |
| Alabama | 111 | 25 | -86 | 14 | 23 | -9 |
| Arizona State | 19 | 23 | 4 | 27 | 24 | 3 |
| Utah | 2 | 22 | 20 | 39 | 25 | 14 |
Great information to see! Alway interesting to see who moves forward and backwards. Love what Michigan did this year, AND with a brand new staff. Looks like great things to come in AA!! Thanks Anya for the info!
UCLA proving you can be successful and led by a head coach on maternity leave. Kudos to the staff – Karissa and Wes – and Jordan thinking ahead and bringing in Tracy. Communication and a plan executed well!
Such a great example for the young women of that program!
Michigan on the rise! Go Blue!
Wuffies with biggest drop of – 101 points…..
really a loss of 71 points (still not good), with out the BS DQ of the 3rd place relay, man what a load of crap relay starts are, based on reaction time, not rule of you cant leave the block till someone touches, just like the change of getting rid of the double in VB.