January 24, 2012
2011-12 Season - Vikings now 20th in national poll
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| Senior Griffin Dwyer and the Augustana Vikings are currently ranked 20th in the latest NCAA Division III men's basketball poll according to D3hoops.com. |
Augustana won two games last week to move to 13-4 overall but fell one spot in the NCAA Division III men’s basketball poll, which was released today. The Vikings were 19 th last week in the D3hoops.com poll with 120 points but check in this week at 20 th despite accumulating 136 points.
Augustana has been ranked in the top 20 all year, even spending one week in the top spot. The Vikings will host 22 nd ranked Wheaton on Tuesday, January 24 and Millikin on Saturday, January 28.
Middlebury continues to hold onto the top spot with a 16-0 record and 623 points.
NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL RANKING
2011-12 WEEK EIGHT
|
# |
School (1st votes) |
Rec |
Pts |
Prev |
|
1 |
Middlebury (24) |
16-0 |
623 |
1 |
|
2 |
UW-Whitewater (1) |
17-1 |
595 |
5 |
|
3 |
Hope |
16-1 |
549 |
7 |
|
4 |
Emory |
15-1 |
514 |
8 |
|
5 |
Virginia Wesleyan |
13-2 |
511 |
2 |
|
6 |
MIT |
16-1 |
488 |
3 |
|
7 |
Amherst |
15-2 |
482 |
4 |
|
8 |
Cabrini |
16-1 |
446 |
10 |
|
9 |
Franklin and Marshall |
16-1 |
409 |
13 |
|
10 |
Mary Hardin-Baylor |
16-1 |
493 |
6 |
|
11 |
Whitworth |
14-3 |
339 |
9 |
|
12 |
Birmingham-Southern |
16-1 |
323 |
14 |
|
13 |
Williams |
15-3 |
296 |
15 |
|
14 |
William Paterson |
16-2 |
256 |
18 |
|
15 |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
15-1 |
247 |
12 |
|
16 |
UW-Stevens Point |
14-4 |
222 |
11 |
|
17 |
New York University |
14-1 |
192 |
23 |
|
18 |
Eastern Connecticut |
14-1 |
155 |
25 |
|
19 |
Wooster |
14-3 |
147 |
24 |
|
20 |
AUGUSTANA |
13-4 |
136 |
19 |
|
21 |
Illinois Wesleyan |
14-3 |
128 |
17 |
|
22 |
Wheaton (Ill.) |
14-3 |
123 |
22 |
|
23 |
Wabash |
14-3 |
115 |
16 |
|
24 |
Rhode Island College |
14-2 |
76 |
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|
25 |
Transylvania |
15-2 |
68 |
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Dropped out: No. 20 St. Thomas; No. 21 Wittenberg
Others receiving votes: Lake Forest 49; WPI 48; SUNY-Oswego 40; Wittenberg 36; Randolph-Macon 20; St. Thomas 19; Bethany 16; St. Joseph’s-Long Island 9; Christopher-Newport 8; Wisconsin-River Falls 7; Washington 7; Albertus Magnus 4; Lycoming 4; St. Mary’s 4; Wesleyan 4; Western Connecticut 4; DePauw 1; Grinnell 1; Hampden-Sydney 1.
