Women’s Basketball ranked No. 13 in Week 9 D3hoops.com poll, No. 13 by WBCA
By Wes Mayberry
| D3hoops.com Women's Basketball Top 25 Poll – Week 9 | WBCA NCAA III Top 25 Poll – Jan. 31 |
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team is ranked No. 13 in the Week 9 D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll.
The Polar Bears (17-2 overall, 11-1 OAC) received 278 points in the poll and rose five spots from last week's poll in which they received 196 points and were ranked No. 18.
Northern is coming off Saturday's 90-47 home win over Mount Union that saw the team make a school-record 17 3-pointers.
The Polar Bears currently lead the Ohio Athletic Conference standings by one game over Baldwin Wallace, which is ranked No. 14 in the poll.
Trinity (Tex.) is the top-ranked team in this week's poll, receiving 618 points and 19 of 25 first-place votes.
Transylvania (Ky.), Christopher Newport (Va.), Scranton (Pa.) 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. 13 in this week's Women's Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Poll, which was released on Tuesday.
The Polar Bears received 103 points in the poll.
Northern received 52 points and was ranked No. 20 in last week's poll.
Christopher Newport is the top-ranked team in the WBCA poll, receiving 249 points and nine of 10 first-place votes.
Trinity, Transylvania, Scranton and Smith round out the top five.
Baldwin Wallace received 142 points and is ranked No. 10.
The WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches Poll Committee is composed of one head coach from each of the 10 NCAA Division III conferences.
The Polar Bears return to action on Wednesday hosting OAC foe Otterbein at 7 p.m.
D3hoops.com Women's Top 25 - Week 9
Jan. 31, 2023
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | Points | Last | Record |
| 1. | Trinity (Tex.) (19) | 618 | 1 | 19-0 |
| 2. | Transylvania (Ky.) (5) | 586 | 2 | 19-0 |
| 3. | Christopher Newport (Va.) (1) | 583 | 3 | 20-0 |
| 4. | Scranton (Pa.) | 556 | 4 | 19-0 |
| 5. | Smith (Mass.) | 519 | 5 | 18-1 |
| 6. | Hope (Mich.) | 460 | 8 | 18-2 |
| 7. | New York U. | 429 | 6 | 15-2 |
| 8. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 410 | 13 | 18-2 |
| 9. | DeSales (Pa.) | 400 | 12 | 18-1 |
| 10. | Chicago (Ill.) | 386 | 7 | 16-2 |
| 11. | Trinity (Conn.) | 384 | 15 | 19-1 |
| 12. | Trine (Ind.) | 310 | 11 | 15-4 |
| 13. | Ohio Northern | 278 | 18 | 17-2 |
| 14. | Baldwin Wallace | 276 | 10 | 17-2 |
| 15. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 260 | 19 | 16-2 |
| 16. | Babson (Mass.) | 245 | 9 | 16-3 |
| 17 | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 215 | 14 | 16-4 |
| 18. | Rochester (N.Y.) | 213 | 16 | 14-4 |
| 19. | Messiah (Pa.) | 159 | 21 | 18-2 |
| 20. | Puget Sound (Wash.) | 156 | 17 | 16-3 |
| 21. | Calvin (Mich.) | 155 | 20 | 16-3 |
| 22. | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) | 89 | 25 | 16-2 |
| 23. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 88 | 24 | 15-5 |
| 24. | Elizabethtown (Pa.) | 52 | NR | 17-1 |
| 25. | Millikin (Ill.) | 48 | NR | 16-3 |
Others receiving votes: Wartburg 36; La Verne 31; Washington U. 31; Washington and Jefferson 28; UW-Oshkosh 22; Berea 21; Loras 19; Cortland 17; Mary Hardin-Baylor 11; Stevens 10; UC Santa Cruz 9; Tufts 6; Concordia-Moorhead 5; Emory 2; Albertus Magnus 1; St. John Fisher 1
WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 - Jan. 31, 2023
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | Points | Last | Record |
| 1. | Christopher Newport (Va.) (9) | 249 | 1 | 20-0 |
| 2. | Trinity (Tex.) (1) | 239 | 2 | 19-0 |
| 3. | Transylvania (Ky.) | 231 | 3 | 19-0 |
| 4. | Scranton (Pa.) | 219 | 4 | 19-0 |
| 5. | Smith (Mass.) | 205 | 5 | 18-1 |
| 6. | Hope (Mich.) | 196 | 7 | 18-2 |
| 7. | New York U. | 194 | 6 | 15-2 |
| 8. | DeSales (Pa.) | 177 | 11 | 18-1 |
| 9. | Trinity (Conn.) | 168 | 15 | 19-1 |
| 10. | Baldwin Wallace | 142 | 8 | 17-2 |
| 11. | Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) | 139 | 14 | 18-2 |
| 12. | Chicago (Ill.) | 112 | 9 | 16-2 |
| 13. | Ohio Northern | 103 | 20 | 17-2 |
| 14. | Ithaca (N.Y.) | 96 | 19 | 16-2 |
| 15. | Elizabethtown (Pa.) | 92 | 20 | 17-1 |
| 16. | Puget Sound (Wash.) | 89 | 12 | 16-3 |
| 17. | Trine (Ind.) | 85 | 13 | 15-4 |
| 18. | Babson (Mass.) | 84 | 10 | 16-3 |
| 19. | Stevens (N.J.) | 81 | 18 | 17-3 |
| 20. | Rochester (N.Y.) | 68 | 16 | 14-4 |
| 21. | La Verne (Calif.) | 62 | 22 | 18-1 |
| 22. | Messiah (Pa.) | 53 | 24 | 18-2 |
| 23. | Millikin (Ill.) | 44 | NR | 16-3 |
| 24. | Calvin (Mich.) | 27 | NR | 16-3 |
| 25. | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 26 | 17 | 16-4 |
Others receiving votes: UW-Oshkosh (15-5) 13; Wartburg (15-4) 12; Roger Williams (16-3) 9; Gustavus Adolphus (16-2) 8; Washington & Jefferson (17-2) 5; Washington-St. Louis (13-5) 5; Berea (18-1) 4; Mary Washington (17-3) 4; Pacific, OR (14-5) 4; UW-Whitewater (15-5) 2; Webster (17-2) 1