Women's Basketball receives votes in WBCA Top 25 Poll for week of Dec. 5
By Wes Mayberry
| WBCA NCAA III Top 25 Poll – Dec. 5 |
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team received votes in this week's WBCA Division III Top 25 Poll.
The Polar Bears received four points in the poll after receiving seven points in last week's poll.
Transylvania (Ky.), NYU and Christopher Newport (Va.) are the top three teams in this week's poll.
The Polar Bears (2-3 overall, 1-0 OAC) are coming off Saturday's 58-38 win over John Carroll and return to action on Wednesday hosting Heidelberg at 7 p.m.
WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 - Dec. 5, 2023
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | Points | Last | Record |
| 1. | Transylvania (Ky.) (4) | 243 | 1 | 5-0 |
| 2. | NYU (4) | 241 | 2 | 7-0 |
| 3. | Christopher Newport (Va.) (2) | 236 | 3 | 8-0 |
| 4. | Scranton (Pa.) | 214 | 4 | 7-0 |
| 5. | Rhode Island College | 212 | 5 | 7-0 |
| 6. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 203 | 7 | 8-0 |
| 7. | Trinity (Tex.) | 172 | 8 | 6-1 |
| 8. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 163 | 12 | 7-0 |
| 9. | Smith (Mass.) | 158 | 10 | 5-1 |
| 10. | Millikin (Ill.) | 150 | 13 | 7-0 |
| 11. | Chicago (Ill.) | 143 | 11 | 7-1 |
| 12. | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) | 135 | 15 | 4-0 |
| 13. | Trine (Ind.) | 116 | 14 | 5-1 |
| 14. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 112 | 6 | 5-1 |
| 15. | Hope (Mich.) | 108 | 17 | 6-1 |
| 16. | Trinity (Conn.) | 86 | 15 | 5-2 |
| 17. | Tufts (Mass.) | 74 | 9 | 5-2 |
| 18. | Washington and Lee (Va.) | 68 | 21 | 7-1 |
| 19. | Mary Washington (Va.) | 61 | 22 | 7-1 |
| 20. | Emory (Ga.) | 52 | NR | 7-1 |
| Whitman (Wash.) | 52 | 18 | 5-1 | |
| 22. | Loras (Iowa) | 47 | 20 | 4-2 |
| 23. | Marietta | 39 | 22 | 4-1 |
| 24. | Catholic (D.C.) | 37 | NR | 7-0 |
| 25. | Amherst (Mass.) | 30 | NR | 6-0 |
Others receiving votes: DeSales (6-1) 26; Illinois Wesleyan (7-2) 22; Baldwin-Wallace (4-2) 15; SUNY New Paltz (5-1) 9; Elizabethtown (5-2) 7; Mary Hardin-Baylor (5-1) 5; Ohio Northern (2-3) 4; UW-Stout (6-1) 4; Wittenberg (3-2) 3; Wheaton, IL (6-1) 2; Skidmore (6-2) 1.