February 7, 2012
2011-12 Season - Vikings now ranked for 25 straight weeks
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| Senior Bryant Voiles heads back into the locker room after the Vikings' 80-78 overtime victory over then 24th ranked Illinois Wesleyan on Tuesday, January 31. Augustana is currently ranked 20th in NCAA Division III and the Vikings have been in the national top 25 for 25 straight weeks. |
Augustana checks in at 20 th in the most recent NCAA Division III men’s basketball poll, which is conducted by D3hoops.com. The Vikings defeated then number 24 Illinois Wesleyan 80-78 on Tuesday, January 31 but dropped a hard-fought 43-41 decision at College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin leader North Central on Saturday, February 4 in Naperville, Illinois.
Grey Giovanine’s Vikings are now 16-5 overall and 6-4 in league play. They garnered 108 points this week and slid five spots in the poll, from 15 th to 20 th. Augustana has now been ranked in the top 25 of the D3hoops.com national poll for 25 straight weeks, dating back to the first week of the 2010-11 season. The Vikings are at North Park on Tuesday, February 7 and then come home to face Elmhurst on Saturday, February 11 in a “Senior Night” contest.
NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL RANKING
2011-12 WEEK 10
|
# |
School (1st votes) |
Rec |
Pts |
Prev |
|
1 |
Hope (15) |
20-1 |
606 |
2 |
|
2 |
Middlebury (5) |
20-1 |
571 |
1 |
|
3 |
Virginia Wesleyan (4) |
18-2 |
570 |
3 |
|
4 |
UW-Whitewater (1) |
19-2 |
537 |
4 |
|
5 |
MIT |
20-1 |
528 |
5 |
|
6 |
Amherst |
20-2 |
502 |
6 |
|
7 |
Cabrini |
21-1 |
480 |
7 |
|
8 |
Mary Hardin-Baylor |
20-1 |
451 |
9 |
|
9 |
Whitworth |
18-3 |
419 |
10 |
|
10 |
Birmingham-Southern |
20-1 |
400 |
11 |
|
11 |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
19-1 |
359 |
12 |
|
12 |
UW-Stevens Point |
18-4 |
334 |
13 |
|
13 |
Wooster |
18-3 |
324 |
14 |
|
14 |
Franklin and Marshall |
19-2 |
306 |
8 |
|
15 |
Transylvania |
19-2 |
245 |
18 |
|
16 |
New York University |
17-2 |
206 |
19 |
|
17 |
William Paterson |
19-3 |
195 |
20 |
|
18 |
SUNY-Oswego |
17-3 |
163 |
22 |
|
19 |
Wheaton (Ill.) |
17-4 |
133 |
23 |
|
20 |
AUGUSTANA |
16-5 |
108 |
15 |
|
21 |
Keene State |
17-4 |
105 |
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|
22 |
Wittenberg |
17-4 |
69 |
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|
23 |
Emory |
16-4 |
49 |
17 |
|
24 |
Albertus Magnus |
20-1 |
46 |
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|
25 |
UW-River Falls |
16-5 |
45 |
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Dropped out: No. 16 Williams; No. 21 Randolph-Macon; No. 24 Illinois Wesleyan; No. 25 Washington
Others receiving votes: Illinois Wesleyan 43; Williams 39; Lake Forest 35; Rhode Island College 33; Hartwick 33; WPI 31; Randolph-Macon 30; Washington 22; Christopher Newport 21; St. Joseph’s-LI 19; Buffalo State 16; North Central 16; Bethany 12; Eastern Connecticut 6; Gustavus-Adolphus 4; St. Thomas 4; St. Mary’s 3; Wesleyan 3; Lycoming 1; New Jersey City 1; Ohio Wesleyan 1; Wabash 1.
