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Sports News: Winter 2004-05

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

GREYHOUNDS JUMP TO 23RD IN THIS WEEK’S D3HOOPS.COM TOP 25 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL POLL

STERLING, VA --- The Moravian College women’s basketball team jumped to 23rd in the nation after receiving votes for two straight weeks in this week’s D3hoops.com Top 25 poll released late Monday. This is the first time the Greyhounds have been nationally ranked since the 1993-94 season.

The Greyhounds, who are 19-3 overall and 10-1 in Commonwealth Conference action, received 77 points this week, which is one point behind Dickinson College. Last week, Moravian was in the others receiving votes category with nine points. The prior week, the Greyhounds had received 15 points after being out of the list for five straight weeks. The Greyhounds received 74 points and were six points out of the Top 25 in the first poll of the season before dropping to 12 points in the second poll and seven points in the third poll. Moravian fell out of the list after losing its second game of the year and falling to 6-2.

Moravian has played several top 25 teams this season, defeating #11 Messiah College, 71-64. The Greyhounds fell to #2 University of Scranton, 77-58, and the squad has defeated McDaniel College, 66-51, which received votes and is four points out of the top 25. Moravian still a game to play this season with Messiah on Thursday, February 17th in Grantham.

The complete poll can be found at http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/.

The Greyhounds will return to action on Tuesday, February 15th in a Commonwealth Conference game at Albright College tipping off at 6:00 p.m. in Reading.

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll through games of Sunday, February 13th

# Team (first place votes)
W-L
Pts.
Last Week
1 Bates (13)
22-1
614
1
2 Scranton (9)
21-1
593
2
3 Bowdoin
20-2
557
3
4 Southern Maine (2)
21-2
550
4
5 Trinity (Texas)
20-2
527
5
6 Randolph-Macon (1)
21-1
500
6
7 King's
21-2
461
9
8 Millikin
19-2
418
11
9 Buena Vista
22-1
415
12
10 Washington U.
18-4
364
13
11 Messiah
19-3
312
7
12 Hope
21-2
305
19
13 Hardin-Simmons
19-3
300
8
14 Albion
21-2
292
17
15 Brandeis
18-3
253
10
16 Emmanuel
22-2
247
20
17 DePauw
19-4
203
14
18 Wheaton (Ill.)
19-3
194
22
19 UW-Stevens Point
19-4
115
25
20 New York University
17-5
113
15
21 UW-Stout
17-6
105
18
22 Dickinson
20-2
78
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23 Moravian
19-3
77
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24 Whitworth
18-3
73
16
25 Howard Payne
20-3
69
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Dropped out: No. 21 McDaniel; No. 23 Carleton; No. 24 St. Benedict

Others receiving votes: McDaniel 65, Mount St. Mary 64, Wesleyan 37, George Fox 36, Johns Hopkins 30, UW-Oshkosh 30, Wilmington 25, Capital 22, St. Benedict 18, New Jersey 16, Carleton 15, Staten Island 13, Concordia-Moorhead 12, Oswego State 6, Washington and Jefferson 1.

The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly on Tuesdays.