PINEVILLE, La. - The Louisiana College women's basketball team's stock continued to rise this week with the release of the USA Today ESPN and D3Hoops.com Top 25 polls.
The Lady Cats (20-2), who last week were ranked No. 22 in the USA Today poll and No. 21 in the D3Hoops poll, now find themselves in the top 20 in both.
The USA Today ESPN voters deemed LC the No. 18 team in the land while D3Hoops' panel have LC at No. 19 with just one game left in the regular season (LC travels to Texas-Tyler Thursday night).
The top five in both the D3Hoops and USA Today rankings are identical with Amherst College (Mass.), Kean University (N.J.), Illinois Wesleyan, Hope College (Mich.) and George Fox (Ore.) appearing in that order.
The complete USA Today ESPN poll is a follows:
1 Amherst College (Mass.)
2 Kean University (N.J.)
3 Illinois Wesleyan University
4 Hope College (Mich.)
5 George Fox University (Ore.)
6 Washington University (Mo.)
T7 Marymount University (Va.)
T7 William Paterson University (N.J.)
9 Christopher Newport University (Va.)
T10 Calvin College (Mich.)
T10 Moravian College (Pa.)
12 Carthage College (Wis.)
13 Thomas More College (Ky.)
14 University of Scranton (Pa.)
15 University of Puget Sound (Wash.)
16 DePauw University (Ind.)
17 Messiah College (Pa.)
18 Louisiana College (La.)
T19 Lebanon Valley College (Pa.)
T19 Tufts University (Mass.)
21 Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.)
22 Mount Union College (Ohio)
23 State University of NY at Farmingdale
24 University of Chicago (Ill.)
25 University of Mary Washington (Va.)
Dropped Out: Muhlenberg College (Pa.), University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Simpson College (Iowa).
Others Receiving Votes: Muhlenberg College (Pa.) - 10; Colby College (Maine) - 5; Gettysburg College (Pa.) - 5; University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point - 4.
The USA TODAY ESPN board of coaches is made up of nine head coaches at Division III institutions. All are members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The 2009-10 board: Nan Carney-DeBord - Non-voting Chair (Ohio Wesleyan University), Amie Bradley (Trinity University), Doreen Carden (Albion College), G.P. Gromacki (Amherst College), James Scheible (University of Rochester), Michele Sharp (Kean University), Mike Strong (University of Scranton), Nancy Fahey (Washington University-St. Louis) and Suzy Barcomb (University of Puget Sound).
The complete D3Hoops.com Poll was as follows:
1 Amherst
2 Kean
3 Illinois Wesleyan
4 Hope
5 George Fox
6 Washington U.
7 Marymount
8 William Paterson
9 Moravian
10 Carthage
11 Calvin
12 Christopher Newport
13 Scranton
14 Thomas More
15 Puget Sound
16 Messiah
17 DePauw
18 Lebanon Valley
19 Louisiana College
20 Tufts
21 Farmingdale State
22 Washington and Jefferson
23 Mary Washington
24 Gettysburg
25 Chicago
Dropped out: No. 18 Muhlenberg; No. 20 UW-Stevens Point.
Others receiving votes: Muhlenberg 44, UW-Stevens Point 43, Mount Union
26, Bowdoin 22, Colby 21, Rochester 12, UW-Whitewater 10, Ithaca 8,
Williams 8, St. Norbert 7, Austin 5, Hendrix 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
