November 2, 2007
Mary Washington Women's Basketball Ranked #1 by D3Hoops.com
FREDERICKSBURG, VA -- The Mary Washington women's
basketball team, who won last season's third-place game in the
NCAA Tournament, find themselves atop the D3hoops.com preseason Top
25 poll.
Mary Washington sits at the head of a large class of teams with No.
1 votes, as eight teams found the top of one or more of our 25
voters' ballots. Besides the Eagles, No. 2 Howard Payne (two), No.
3 Messiah (one), No. 4 Hope (four), No. 5 DePauw (seven) received
No. 1 votes, as well as sixth-ranked Washington U., No. 8 NYU and
No. 14 Brandeis.
Preseason women's poll About the Top 25
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | Mary Washington (7) | 31-3 | 566 | 3 |
| 2 | Howard Payne (2) | 28-2 | 513 | 7 |
| 3 | Messiah (1) | 26-3 | 511 | 11 |
| 4 | Hope (5) | 24-4 | 493 | 18 |
| 5 | DePauw (7) | 31-3 | 475 | 1 |
| 6 | Washington U. (2) | 25-6 | 465 | 2 |
| 7 | Kean | 27-4 | 403 | 14 |
| 8 | New York University (1) | 27-4 | 355 | 4 |
| 9 | Calvin | 28-3 | 353 | 6 |
| 10 | McMurry | 24-5 | 329 | 19 |
| 11 | Bowdoin | 29-2 | 326 | 5 |
| 12 | Luther | 24-5 | 315 | 15 |
| 13 | Millikin | 20-6 | 264 | - |
| 14 | Brandeis (1) | 20-6 | 240 | 21 |
| 15 | Illinois Wesleyan | 22-6 | 235 | 24 |
| 16 | Simpson | 23-7 | 229 | 20 |
| 17 | Southern Maine | 27-3 | 211 | 9 |
| 18 | UW-Whitewater | 19-7 | 188 | - |
| 19 | Puget Sound | 24-7 | 172 | 10 |
| 20 | Capital | 20-7 | 152 | - |
| 21 | Emmanuel | 29-2 | 136 | 12 |
| 22 | George Fox | 19-7 | 136 | 25 |
| 23 | Randolph-Macon | 26-5 | 134 | 24 |
| 24 | UW-Stevens Point | 18-7 | 130 | - |
| 25 | Scranton | 27-3 | 121 | 8 |
Others receiving votes: Cortland State 119, Medaille 118, Chicago 115, Lake Forest 112, Carroll 102, Rochester 91, Bates 81, Hamilton 78, Baldwin-Wallace 46, Wilmington 32, Oglethorpe 29, UW-Eau Claire 19, St. Benedict 17, St. Lawrence 13, Tufts 10, Denison 6, William Paterson 5, King's 3, Carthage 1, Fitchburg State 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.