Women’s Basketball ranked No. 10 in Week 10 D3hoops.com poll, No. 11 by WBCA
By Wes Mayberry
| D3hoops.com Women's Basketball Top 25 Poll – Week 10 | WBCA NCAA III Top 25 Poll – Feb. 7 |
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team is ranked No. 10 in the Week 10 D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll.
This marks the Polar Bears' highest ranking since entering the 2017-18 season at No. 7. The team has been ranked as high as No. 5, which was in the 2016-17 season.
The Polar Bears (19-2 overall, 13-1 OAC) received 354 points in the poll and rose three spots from last week's poll in which they received 278 points and were ranked No. 13.
Northern is coming off Saturday's 69-65 win at Capital in which it overcame a 14-point, third-quarter deficit.
The Polar Bears currently lead the Ohio Athletic Conference standings by two games over Baldwin Wallace, which is ranked No. 19 in the poll. ONU plays at BWU on Wednesday at 7 p.m., and a victory would clinch the Polar Bears' first regular-season championship since the 2017-18 season.
Christopher Newport (Va.) is the top-ranked team in this week's poll, receiving 610 points and 11 of 25 first-place votes.
Transylvania (Ky.), Scranton (Pa.), Trinity (Tex.) and Smith (Mass.) round out the top five.
The D3hoops.com poll is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, sports information directors and media members from across the country and is published weekly.
Northern is also ranked No. 11 in this week's Women's Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Poll, which was released on Tuesday.
The Polar Bears received 130 points in the poll.
Northern received 103 points and was ranked No. 13 in last week's poll.
Christopher Newport is the top-ranked team in the WBCA poll, receiving 250 points and all 10 first-place votes.
Transylvania, Scranton, Trinity and Smith round out the top five.
Baldwin Wallace received 106 points and is ranked No. 14.
The WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches Poll Committee is composed of one head coach from each of the 10 NCAA Division III conferences.
D3hoops.com Women's Top 25 - Week 10
Feb. 7, 2023
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | Points | Last | Record |
| 1. | Christopher Newport (Va.) (11) | 610 | 3 | 22-0 |
| 2. | Transylvania (Ky.) (13) | 601 | 2 | 21-0 |
| 3. | Scranton (Pa.) (1) | 579 | 4 | 21-0 |
| 4. | Trinity (Tex.) | 534 | 1 | 20-1 |
| 5. | Smith (Mass.) | 523 | 5 | 20-1 |
| 6. | New York U. | 503 | 7 | 17-2 |
| 7. | Hope (Mich.) | 487 | 6 | 19-2 |
| 8. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 441 | 8 | 19-2 |
| 9. | DeSales (Pa.) | 429 | 9 | 20-1 |
| 10. | Ohio Northern | 354 | 13 | 19-2 |
| 11. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 339 | 15 | 18-2 |
| 12. | Trinity (Conn.) | 333 | 11 | 20-2 |
| 13. | Chicago (Ill.) | 307 | 10 | 17-3 |
| 14. | Babson (Mass.) | 264 | 16 | 18-3 |
| 15. | Messiah (Pa.) | 247 | 19 | 19-2 |
| 16. | Puget Sound (Wash.) | 210 | 20 | 18-3 |
| 17 | Calvin (Mich.) | 196 | 21 | 18-3 |
| 18. | Trine (Ind.) | 175 | 12 | 16-5 |
| 19. | Baldwin Wallace | 170 | 14 | 18-3 |
| 20. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 160 | 23 | 17-5 |
| 21. | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) | 157 | 22 | 19-2 |
| 22. | Washington (Mo.) | 111 | NR | 15-5 |
| 23. | La Verne (Calif.) | 78 | NR | 20-1 |
| 24. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 57 | NR | 17-4 |
| 25. | Rochester (N.Y.) | 38 | 18 | 14-6 |
Others receiving votes: UW-Eau Claire 26; Washington and Jefferson 26; Berea 24; UW-Oshkosh 21; Loras 20; Stevens 19; Elizabethtown 17; Millikin 14; SUNY New Paltz 13; Concordia-Moorhead 10; Emory 9; UC Santa Cruz 7; Springfield 6; St. John Fisher 6; Roger Williams 2; East Texas Baptist 1; Tufts 1
WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 - Feb. 7, 2023
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | Points | Last | Record |
| 1. | Christopher Newport (Va.) (10) | 250 | 1 | 22-0 |
| 2. | Transylvania (Ky.) | 239 | 3 | 21-0 |
| 3. | Scranton (Pa.) | 229 | 4 | 21-0 |
| 4. | Trinity (Tex.) | 213 | 2 | 20-1 |
| 5. | Smith (Mass.) | 211 | 5 | 20-1 |
| 6. | Hope (Mich.) | 201 | 6 | 19-2 |
| 7. | New York U. | 191 | 7 | 17-2 |
| 8. | DeSales (Pa.) | 186 | 8 | 20-1 |
| 9. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 165 | 11 | 19-2 |
| 10. | Trinity (Conn.) | 150 | 9 | 20-2 |
| 11. | Ohio Northern | 130 | 13 | 19-2 |
| 12. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 127 | 14 | 18-2 |
| 13. | Puget Sound (Wash.) | 110 | 16 | 18-3 |
| 14. | Baldwin Wallace | 106 | 10 | 18-3 |
| 15. | Chicago (Ill.) | 104 | 12 | 17-3 |
| 16. | Babson (Mass.) | 101 | 18 | 18-3 |
| 17. | Messiah (Pa.) | 80 | 22 | 19-2 |
| 18. | La Verne (Calif.) | 75 | 21 | 20-1 |
| 19. | Stevens (N.J.) | 74 | 19 | 18-3 |
| 20. | Elizabethtown (Pa.) | 64 | 15 | 18-2 |
| 21. | Calvin (Mich.) | 54 | 24 | 18-3 |
| 22. | Trine (Ind.) | 39 | 17 | 16-5 |
| 23. | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) | 23 | NR | 19-2 |
| 24. | Millikin (Ill.) | 20 | 23 | 17-4 |
| 25. | Ohio Wesleyan | 16 | NR | 13-8 |
Others receiving votes: Wartburg (17-4) 15; Roger Williams (18-3) 14; Washington and Jefferson (19-2) 13; Washington-St. Louis (15-5) 13; Berea (20-1) 9; Rochester, NY (14-6) 7; Webster (19-2) 7; UW-Whitewater (17-5) 5; Pacific, OR (15-6) 4; UW-Oshkosh (17-5) 4; Whitman (15-5) 1