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INDIANAPOLIS – The Slippery Rock University women's lacrosse team was ranked No. 2 in the Atlantic Region when the final public ranked-order list of NCAA Regional Rankings were announced Wednesday by the Division II Women's Lacrosse Committee.
 
The NCAA Regional Rankings are the only rankings that matter when it comes to determining which teams from each region will qualify for the National Championship Tournament. Qualification for the tournament includes automatic bids for the champion of each conference that is eligible with the rest of the field being filled by at-large selections.
 
The Atlantic Region postseason field will be made up of six total teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, the Mountain East Conference and the South Atlantic Conference with each conference's champion earning an automatic bid. The other three bids will be chosen by the selection committee using criteria that includes overall win-loss record, in-region win-loss record, weighted strength of schedule, wins against teams with records above .500, the rating performance index (RPI) and performance indicator (PI) scores, and the results of head-to-head competition.
 
Slippery Rock is currently in a comfortable position to earn a second straight trip to the national playoffs after qualifying last spring for the first time in program history. The Rock went on to knock off undefeated top seed West Chester to win the Atlantic Region title and advance to the national semifinals. SRU has carried that momentum into this year and is one of just three undefeated teams in the country, joining East Stroudsburg and current national No. 1 ranked Flagler.
 
The PSAC owns four of the top five positions in the list announced Wednesday with East Stroudsburg, West Chester and Kutztown representing the Eastern Division and Slippery Rock representing the West. The SAC has three teams on the list with Wingate, Lenoir-Rhyne and Anderson (S.C.), while the MEC has one team in Frostburg State.
 
Wednesday's rankings do not include games played this week and the data used for the rankings was compiled after last weekend's games, meaning none of the PSAC quarterfinal games from Tuesday were included in the data (SRU, ESU, WCU and KU all won their games).
 
Entering this week, The Rock owned the No. 1 performance indicator score in the region at 18.000, which ranked ahead of East Stroudsburg at 17.412. The Warriors had the No. 1 RPI score in the region at .672 with Slippery Rock ranking second in that metric at .656. There was very little separating the two teams in the metrics with ESU owning a .559 strength of schedule to SRU's .548. The Rock were 11-0 against teams above .500 while ESU was 9-0.
 
Slippery Rock is in the regional rankings for the fourth straight year and just the fifth season since SRU brought the sport back in 2007.
 
Slippery Rock will host four of the top five teams in the region this weekend for the PSAC Final Four. SRU will host No. 3 West Chester Friday at 1 p.m. while No. 1 ESU will take on No. 5 Kutztown in the second semifinal Friday at 4 p.m. The winners of those games will meet Sunday at at SRU with 1 p.m. in the PSAC title game.
 
This week's rankings are the final public set of rankings that will be available before the NCAA officially announces the playoff field Sunday evening in a live selection show at 8:30 p.m. on NCAA.com.
 
A look at this week's regional rankings can be found below.
 
NCAA REGIONAL RANKINGS – April 29 *
Final public rankings before selections announced May 3

Rank	School	W-L	SOS	RPI	NCAA PI
1	East Stroudsburg	17-0	.559	.672	17.412
2	SLIPPERY ROCK	17-0	.548	.656	18.000
3	West Chester	14-3	.583	.651	15.824
4	Wingate	14-3	.557	.622	15.529
5	Kutztown	12-5	.574	.610	14.765
6	Frostburg State	13-3	.533	.602	14.938
7	Lenoir-Rhyne	10-6	.559	.566	13.438
8	Anderson (S.C)	11-6	.563	.588	14.167

 * Data only includes games through April 26




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