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Sports Shorts for March 11: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

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Overall and Conference Records (As of March 11)
Men's Basketball: 20-6 (10-2 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 11-13 (7-11 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 14-6
Men's Fencing: 14-10
Women's Fencing: 15-12
Women's Lacrosse: 0-2
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 5-15
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Men's Tennis: 8-0
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Men's Volleyball: 14-11
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#1 – Men's Swimming and Diving
#7 – Women's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Water Polo
#11 – Women's Sailing
#13 – Men's Volleyball
#t13 – Co-ed Sailing
#14 – Women's Indoor Track & Field
#15 – Women's Soccer
#18 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
#24 – Men's Basketball
ARV – Men's Cross Country
ARV – Men's Fencing
ARV – Women's Fencing

Men's Basketball
3/2 – Kates, Tashman Earn ECAC All-Star Recognition

Field Hockey
3/6 – MIT Receives NFHCA Academic Accolades

Women's Lacrosse
3/5 – Gordon Edges out Women's Lacrosse, 12-11

Rifle
3/10 – Phillips, Wright Earn Postseason Honors

Sailing
3/4 – MIT Competes at Sharpe Trophy and Women's Interconference Regatta

Women's Swimming & Diving
3/2 – MIT Women's Diving Competes at Regionals

Men's Tennis
3/9 – MIT Men's Tennis Blanks Baruch
3/6 – Undefeated Men's Tennis Cruises Past Bates with 6-3 Victory

Men's Indoor Track & Field
3/9 – MIT Men's Track & Field Concludes Indoor Season With Showing at NCAAs

Women's Indoor Track & Field
3/9 – MIT Women's Track and Field Concludes Indoor Season with 13th Place Finish at NCAAs
3/1 – MIT Women's Track & Field in Fourth After First Day of ECACs
2/27 – MIT Women's Track and Field Moves Up in National Rankings

Men's Volleyball
3/6 – Harvard Tops Men's Volleyball, 3-0

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