Women's Hoops moves to No. 19 in second weekly D3Hoops.com poll

December 6, 2016

By Caleb Scott

ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team moved up one spot to No. 19 in the second weekly D3Hoops.com poll, released Monday evening.

The Polar Bears (6-0 overall) were ranked No. 20 in the first weekly D3Hoops.com poll and received 146 points in this weeks poll.

Northern is 6-0 to begin the season for the first time since the 2006-07 season and has matched the best start in ONU women's basketball history.

Tufts (Mass.) took the top spot with 611 points and 15 first place votes, Amherst (Mass.) is second with 596 points and four first place votes and Scranton (Pa.) rounded out the top three with 569 points and one first place vote.

Ohio Northern returns to action Wednesday evening as they host Wilmington at the ONU Sports Center at 7:30 pm.

Rank	Team (First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Prev.
1.	Tufts (Mass.) (15)	6-0	611	1
2.	Amherst (Mass.) (4)	6-0	596	2
3.	Scranton (Pa.) (1)	7-0	569	4
4.	Thomas More (Ky.) (5)	6-0	510	5
5.	St. Thomas (Minn.)	5-0	492	6
6.	Washington (Mo.)	6-0	486	7
7.	Hope (Mich.)	7-0	455	10
8.	Wartburg (Iowa)	6-0	440	9
9.	Rochester (N.Y.)	6-1	391	11
10.	Wis.-Oshkosh	5-0	380	12
11.	Christopher Newport (Va.)	6-0	354	14
12.	Montclair State (N.J.)	7-0	340	13
13.	Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	6-0	302	15
14.	Bowdoin (Maine)	5-0	294	16
15.	George Fox (Ore.)	6-1	287	8
16.	Mary Washington (Va.)	6-0	239	17
17.	Wheaton (Ill.)	5-1	225	19
18.	Wis.-Whitewater	6-0	161	22
19.	Ohio Northern	6-0	146	20
20.	Albright (Pa.)	5-1	142	18
21.	Texas-Tyler	5-2	138	3
22.	Puget Sound (Wa.)	6-0	100	NR
23.	Wis.-Stevens Point	5-1	91	21
24.	New York U.	8-0	87	NR
25.	Whitman (Wa.)	6-0	68	NR

Others Receiving Votes: Trinity (Texas) 59; Guilford 43; Calvin 32; DePauw 28; Chicago 20; Messiah 12; UW-River Falls 12; Stockton 6; Gustavus Adolphus 3; Catholic 2; Marymount 2; SUNY Geneseo 2