Latest Division III Rankings

Here’s the latest news and notes from d3hoops.com.

No. 1 has two new faces

St. Thomas and Illinois Wesleyan have taken over as the new No. 1 teams in the D3hoops.com Top 25. It’s the first time for either school at the top of the poll in its 10-year history.

The Tommies, who are the only undefeated team in Division III men’s basketball, received 18 of 25 voters’ first-place votes. Defending national champion Washington U., which defeated then-No. 18 Carnegie Mellon 90-70 on the road on Sunday afternoon, got the other seven. The full poll.

Illinois Wesleyan got 24 women’s first-place votes, with UW-Stevens Point getting the other.

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.

Week 8 men’s poll
1 St. Thomas (18) 17-0
2 Washington U. (7) 15-1
3 UW-Stevens Point 15-2
4 UW-Platteville 16-2
5 Capital 16-1
6 UW-Whitewater 15-3
7 Wheaton (Ill.) 15-2
8 Trinity (Texas) 16-1
9 Puget Sound 15-2
10 Buena Vista 16-2
11 Ithaca 15-1
12 Richard Stockton 17-2
13 Elms 15-1
14 St. Norbert 14-1
15 Augustana 14-4
16 Amherst 14-2
17 Elmhurst 13-4
18 Mass-Dartmouth 14-2
19 Middlebury 16-2
20 Carnegie Mellon 13-3
21 St. John Fisher 14-2
22 Texas-Dallas 15-2
23 Centre 14-3
24 Carroll 13-3
25 Gettysburg 12-3

Dropped out: No. 21 Roanoke, No. 23 William Paterson, No. 24 Franklin and Marshall.

Others receiving votes: Roanoke 40, Franklin and Marshall 31, William Paterson 29, Worcester Polytech 23, Anderson 18, Brandeis 12, Rhode Island College 9, Whitworth 9, MIT 7, Salem State 7, North Central (Ill.) 5, Randolph-Macon 3, Washington and Lee 3, Cal Lutheran 2, Carthage 2, DePauw 2, DeSales 1, Virginia Wesleyan 1.