Women's Basketball jumps two spots in latest D3Hoops.com poll; ranked No. 10 in WBCA Poll
By Caleb Scott
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team jumped two spots to No. 15 in the fifth weekly D3Hoops.com poll, released Monday evening.
The Polar Bears (11-0 overall, 4-0 OAC) received 281 points in this weeks poll.
Northern is 11-0 to begin the season for the first time in school history.
Tufts (Mass.) took the top spot with 611 points and 15 first place votes, Amherst (Mass.) is second with 595 points and five first place votes and Scranton (Pa.) rounded out the top three with 566 points and one first place vote.
Northern also moved up two spotsin the Women's Basketball Coaches Association poll to No. 10 and received 120 points.
Ohio Northern returns to action Jan. 4 as they welcome Otterbein to the ONU Sports Center for a 7:30 pm matchup.
D3Hoops.com Poll
Jan. 2, 2017 - Week 5
| Rank | Team (First Place Votes) | Record | Points | Prev. |
| 1. | Tufts (Mass.) (15) | 9-0 | 611 | 1 |
| 2. | Amherst (Mass.) (5) | 10-0 | 595 | 2 |
| 3. | Scranton (Pa.) (1) | 11-0 | 566 | 3 |
| 4. | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 10-0 | 521 | 5 |
| 5. | Washington (Mo.) | 10-0 | 515 | 6 |
| 6. | Thomas More (Ky.) (4) | 10-0 | 514 | 4 |
| 7. | Christopher Newport (Va.) | 11-0 | 427 | 10 |
| 8. | Hope (Mich.) | 12-1 | 410 | 7 |
| 9. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 11-0 | 405 | 11 |
| 10. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 11-0 | 391 | 12 |
| 11. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 11-1 | 388 | 8 |
| 12. | Mary Washington (Va.) | 11-0 | 333 | 14 |
| 13. | Wis.-Oshkosh | 10-1 | 328 | 9 |
| 14. | Trinity (Tex.) | 11-0 | 308 | 18 |
| 15. | Ohio Northern | 11-0 | 281 | 17 |
| 16. | Whitman (Wa.) | 11-0 | 207 | 22 |
| 17. | Bowdoin (Maine) | 9-1 | 189 | 13 |
| 18. | Puget Sound (Wa.) | 10-1 | 168 | 23 |
| 19. | DePauw (Ind.) | 12-1 | 158 | NR |
| 20. | George Fox (Ore.) | 8-2 | 155 | 15 |
| 21. | Wis.-Whitewater | 10-1 | 152 | 16 |
| 22. | Rochester (N.Y.) | 8-2 | 121 | 21 |
| 23. | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-22 | 95 | 24 |
| 24. | Messiah (Pa.) | 11-0 | 76 | NR |
| 25. | Calvin (Mich.) | 11-1 | 48 | NR |
Others Receiving Votes: New York University 43, Gustavus Adolphus 36, Ithaca 24, Albright 16, Stockton 10, Marymount 9, SUNY Geneseo 7, Augustana 4, Trine 4, Babson 3, Baldwin Wallace 2, Texas-Tyler 2, Lewis & Clark 1, UW-Stevens Point 1, Williams 1
WBCA Poll
January 3, 2017
| Rank | School | Record | Total Points | Previous Rank |
| 1 | Tufts (Mass.) (6) | 10-0 | 195 | 1 |
| 2 | Amherst (Mass.) (2) | 10-0 | 194 | 2 |
| 3 | Scranton (Pa.) | 11-0 | 184 | 3 |
| 4 | Washington (Mo.) | 10-0 | 174 | 5 |
| 5 | Thomas More (Ky.) | 10-0 | 168 | 4 |
| 6 | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 10-0 | 159 | 6 |
| 7 | Hope (Mich.) | 12-1 | 145 | 7 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport (Va.) | 11-0 | 142 | 10 |
| 9 | Wartburg (Iowa) | 11-1 | 129 | 8 |
| 10 | Ohio Northern | 11-0 | 120 | 12 |
| 11 | Mary Washington (Va.) | 11-0 | 112 | 14 |
| 12 | Montclair State (N.J.) | 12-0 | 110 | 16 |
| 13 | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 11-0 | 105 | 15 |
| 14 | Wis.-Oshkosh | 10-1 | 103 | 9 |
| 15 | Whitman (Wa.) | 11-0 | 90 | 19 |
| 16 | Trinity (Tex.) | 11-0 | 78 | 21 |
| 17 | Bowdoin (Maine.) | 9-1 | 75 | 11 |
| 18 | George Fox (Ore.) | 8-2 | 49 | 13 |
| 19 | Wis.-Whitewater | 10-1 | 38 | 22 |
| 20 | Puget Sound (Wash.) | 10-1 | 36 | NR |
| 21 | New York (N.Y.) | 9-1 | 34 | 17 |
| 22 | DePauw (Ind.) | 12-1 | 31 | NR |
| 23 | Rochester (N.Y.) | 8-2 | 28 | 20 |
| 24 | Messiah (Pa.) | 11-0 | 23 | NR |
| 25 | Bluffton | 8-2 | 19 | 24 |
Others receiving votes: Wheaton (IL) (8-2); Wisconsin - Stevens Point (8-3); Calvin (11-1); Austin College (9-3); Texas - Dallas (9-2); Rochester Institute of Technology (8-1); SUNY - Geneseo (9-0); Chicago (7-4)