NCAA Division I women’s champion North Carolina and runner-up Notre Dame also finished 1-2 in the NCAA’s final Division I women’s RPI rankings — the Ratings Percentage Index used as an aid in selecting and seeding of the teams for the NCAA Tournament and taking into account a team’s winning percentage, its strength of schedule and its opponents’ strength of schedule. UCLA and Florida State, the other two Women’s College Cup participants, finished 3-4.
TOP 10
TEAM CONF. ’06 RECORD
1 North Carolina ACC 27-1-0
2 Notre Dame Big East 25-1-1
3 UCLA Pac-10 21-4-0
4 Florida St. ACC 18-4-4
5 Santa Clara WCC 15-5-1
6 Penn St. Big Ten 18-5-3
7 Texas A&M Big 12 17-6-1
8 William & Mary CAA 16-1-4
9 Portland WCC 17-4-3
10 Colorado Big 12 14-6-4