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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWith 48 points and six first-place votes in the poll, the Tampa Spartans are expected to repeat as regular-season champions. Rollins College and Florida Southern College both received a first-place nod in the ranking. However, the Tars edged the Moccasins for second place, 41 to 40 points, respectively. Saint Leo University holds fourth place with 31 points, while Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University sits in fifth place following 25 points from conference coaches. Florida Tech (15 points), Lynn University (14 points), and Palm Beach Atlantic University (9 points) rank 6-7-8 in this year’s poll.
Florida Southern, Rollins, and Tampa all finished 2019 with a 5-1 league record and a share of the 2019 SSC regular-season championship. Tampa went on to win the 2019 SSC tournament, a first in program history, besting Rollins in the semifinals and FSC in the championship final. All three teams earned a bid to the NCAA tournament, where Tampa fell to Queens University, and Rollins defeated FSC in the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Southern is coming off a 2019 campaign that resulted in a final record of 16-4. In December, the Mocs were picked #9 in the nation in the preseason NIKE\/US Lacrosse poll. Florida Southern will face several opponents this season who are also nationally ranked in the preseason, including No. 5 Belmont Abbey (Feb. 15), No. 6 Tampa (Feb. 22, April 4), No. 8 Mount Olive (March 8), No. 16 Saint Leo (April 8), and No. 17 Rollins (April 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Florida Southern will open the season on February 7, hosting Molloy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below are the full results of the 2020 SSC preseason coaches poll. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team (first-place votes in parentheses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sunshine State Conference women’s lacrosse coaches have finalized their votes for the preseason poll, and the Florida Southern College Moccasins are projected to finish third in the eight-team league.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"19","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsc-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2020 SSC Women’s Lacrosse Preseason Coaches Poll<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Rank<\/strong><\/td> School (FPV)<\/strong><\/td> Total Points<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> Tampa (6)<\/td> 48<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> Rollins (1)<\/td> 41<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> Florida Southern (1)<\/td> 40<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> Saint Leo<\/td> 31<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> Embry-Riddle<\/td> 25<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> Florida Tech<\/td> 16<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> Lynn<\/td> 14<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> Palm Beach Atlantic<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"