D1 women’s poll: Big Green lock down top spot

Jolie Creo's big weekend helped push the Crusaders up the poll. (Holy Cross Athletics)

An overtime showdown between Dartmouth and Brown highlighted this week’s slate games with the Big Green emerging in an overtime thriller to retain the No. 1 spot in this week’s Division 1 poll hanging in the balance

Big victories from UMass and Boston College helped their cause for the top contender spots, while Brown suffered the pair of tough-luck losses to two of New England’s best in Dartmouth and the Eagles. UConn and Holy Cross continue to impress and Bryant was buoyed by a career game out of a rising young star.

Brown has two more regional matchups this week with games against Holy Cross and Yale, Boston University takes a trip down Storrow Drive to face Harvard, and UMass tangles with UConn in more all-New England matchups that have major poll implications.

It’s also an all-Ivy League edition of this week’s Players of the Week.