Men's Basketball Ranked 14th in d3hoops.com Poll

Athletic Department News

Dave Geringer [Contact]

1/21/2009

MINNEAPOLIS, MN-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's basketball team moved up another spot this week in the latest d3hoops.com men's basketball poll.

The Corsairs moved up to 14th place nationally this week.

UMass Dartmouth was the only Little East Conference team ranked in the poll. Corsair opponent Salem State was among the teams receiving votes.

"I always think it's positive to be ranked, it helps our efforts in terms of recruiting, and makes the kids feel good about themselves," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Brian Baptiste. "I'm very pleased with our ranking, I hope that we can maintain what we've been doing and get stronger and better as the year goes along."

The Corsairs are 13-2 this season, and are tied for first place in the Little East Conference with a 5-1 record. They will return to action when they visit Western Connecticut State in the second game of an LEC doubleheader on Saturday.

UMASSDARTMOUTH BASKETBALL
d3hoops.com Poll

1 Wheaton (Ill.) (18) 15-0 618 1
2 St. Thomas (5) 14-0 602 2
3 Washington U. (2) 13-1 578 3
4 UW-Stevens Point 13-2 540 4
5 UW-Platteville 14-2 483 6
6 Buena Vista 14-1 478 5
7 UW-Whitewater 14-2 461 7
8 Capital 14-1 444 8
9 Amherst 13-1 436 9
10 Trinity (Texas) 14-1 372 10
11 Puget Sound 13-2 339 12
12 Ithaca 14-1 305 13
13 Richard Stockton 15-2 292 14
14 Mass-Dartmouth 13-1 277 15
15 Augustana 12-4 264 11
16 Elms 13-1 260 16
17 St. Norbert 12-1 240 17
18 Carnegie Mellon 11-2 178 19
19 Elmhurst 11-4 162 20
20 Texas-Dallas 14-1 147 22
21 Roanoke 14-2 135 18
22 Gettysburg 11-2 92 --
23 William Paterson 12-2 78 25
24 Franklin and Marshall 13-1 65 21
25 Middlebury 14-2 51 --

Others receiving votes: Whitworth 50, Anderson 37, St. John Fisher 35, Salem State 25, Randolph-Macon 21, Centre 20, Carroll 10, DePauw 7, Worcester Polytech 7, St. Mary's (Md.) 5, Carthage 4, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 2, Rochester 2, Chapman 1.