January 17, 2012
2011-12 Season - Vikings stay in top 20
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| Senior captain Brian DeSimone and the Augustana Vikings are currently ranked 19th in the latest NCAA Division III national poll for men's basketball. Augustana hosts North Park on Tuesday, January 17 in the Carver Center at 7:30 p.m. |
Despite three straight losses, the Augustana Vikings remain in the top 20 in the NCAA Division III men’s basketball poll according to D3hoops.com. Veteran head coach Grey Giovanine’s team is currently 11-4 overall heading into a College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin home game against North Park on Tuesday, January 17.
The Vikings were sixth a week ago but lost a pair of games last week on the road. They fell at Illinois Wesleyan by a score of 73-63 on January 10 and then were beaten at the buzzer on January 14 at Elmhurst by a count of 56-55. The three-game slide began with a 67-62 home loss to North Central on January 7.
Middlebury continues to hold onto the top spot with a 14-0 record and 622 points.
NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL RANKING
2011-12 WEEK SEVEN
|
# |
School (1st votes) |
Rec |
Pts |
Prev |
|
1 |
Middlebury (22) |
14-0 |
622 |
1 |
|
2 |
Virginia Wesleyan (2) |
13-1 |
595 |
2 |
|
3 |
MIT (1) |
16-0 |
575 |
3 |
|
4 |
Amherst |
13-1 |
547 |
5 |
|
5 |
UW-Whitewater |
15-1 |
500 |
9 |
|
6 |
Mary Hardin-Baylor |
15-0 |
494 |
8 |
|
7 |
Hope |
14-1 |
450 |
11 |
|
8 |
Emory |
13-1 |
448 |
4 |
|
9 |
Whitworth |
13-2 |
428 |
10 |
|
10 |
Cabrini |
14-1 |
388 |
13 |
|
11 |
UW-Stevens Point |
13-3 |
343 |
15 |
|
12 |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
14-0 |
319 |
17 |
|
13 |
Franklin and Marshall |
14-1 |
310 |
7 |
|
14 |
Birmingham-Southern |
14-1 |
266 |
19 |
|
15 |
Williams |
13-3 |
237 |
12 |
|
16 |
Wabash |
13-2 |
211 |
14 |
|
17 |
Illinois Wesleyan |
13-2 |
206 |
25 |
|
18 |
William Paterson |
13-2 |
159 |
-- |
|
19 |
AUGUSTANA |
11-4 |
120 |
6 |
|
20 |
St. Thomas |
10-3 |
103 |
-- |
|
21 |
Wittenberg |
12-3 |
99 |
-- |
|
22 |
Wheaton (Ill.) |
12-3 |
97 |
-- |
|
23 |
New York University |
12-1 |
87 |
-- |
|
24 |
Wooster |
12-3 |
60 |
16 |
|
25 |
Eastern Connecticut |
12-1 |
57 |
-- |
Dropped out: No. 18 Puget Sound, No. 20 Rhode Island College, No. 21 Buffalo State, No. 22 Oswego State, No. 23 Western Connecticut, No. 24 WPI.
Others receiving votes: Rhode Island College 56; Oswego State 47; Transylvania 42; Washington U. 39; Bethany 37; Western Connecticut 26; Lake Forest 24; Worcester Polytech 18; Hampden-Sydney 16; Ohio Wesleyan 16; UW-River Falls 16; Hardin-Simmons 16; Wesleyan 10; Christopher Newport 6; Puget Sound 6; St. Joseph's (L.I.) 6; Mary Washington 6; John Carroll 5; St. Mary's (Md.) 4; Randolph-Macon 4; Grinnell 2; DePauw 1; North Central (Ill.) 1.
