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women's basketball
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USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll
Sports
Information Department, Dan Teliski, Director
Phone: (814) 871-7418
Date: January 15, 2008
GANNON
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
TEAM AMONG OTHERS RECEIVING
VOTES IN LATEST NATIONAL POLL
ERIE, Pa. - The Gannon women’s
basketball team is listed among others receiving votes in the latest USA
Today/ESPN Top 25 poll released Tuesday afternoon. It marks Gannon’s first
appearance in the poll since being listed among others receiving votes in
the first regular-season poll in late November. The Lady Knights, who received
six votes this week, were tabbed 20th in the preseason top 25.
The University of North Dakota is the top-ranked team in NCAA Division II,
receiving 23 of the 26 first-place votes. The Fighting Sioux is one of five
undefeated teams in Division II with a 17-0 record. Delta State (Miss.) captured
the remaining three first-place votes and ranked second with a 13-0 mark.
Concordia-St. Paul (Minn.) (16-0), Seattle Pacific (13-0), and Valdosta State
(Ga.) (14-1) completed the top five. Indiana (Pa.) (15-1), Drury (Mo.) (12-2),
Washburn (Kan.) (11-2), Alaska-Anchorage (14-2), and South Dakota (15-1)
rounded out the top 10.
No Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) team was listed
in the top 25. Drury (7th) and Northern Kentucky (14th) from the Great Lakes
Valley Conference (GLVC) were listed in the poll.
Gannon improved to 11-4 overall and 5-1 in the GLIAC with a come-from-behind
75-74 victory over Ashland last Saturday. The Lady Knights have won a season-high
five games in a row. The squad has won its last three home games while trailing
at halftime of each one.
Gannon returns to action Thursday, January 17 at Ferris State. Two of the
conference’s best teams clash at 6 p.m. The action can be heard live on Jet
Radio 1400 and via the Internet at http://www.gannon.edu/sports/werg/knightsound.ihtml.
The complete USA Today/ESPN Top 25 can be found at http://www.wbca.org/DIICoachesPoll.asp.
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1/15/08 by: drt
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