Bluefield College leaps into the NCCAA Women's
Basketball Division I Official Top 10 Rankings, the national office announced Tuesday.
Bluefield
went unranked to start the season made the largest jump earning the
fourth spot, joined fellow Mid-South Conference member in
the top five after Campbellsville (Ky.) moved up seven spots from a
week ago into No. 3.
The Rams who went unranked to open the season jumped into the fourth spot based on a 7.778
Burbridge Power Rating from their 6-3
record. This
season the Rams defeated then NAIA
Women's Basketball Preseason Coaches Top-25 Poll No. 6 Georgetown,
83-73, and opened the season a perfect 6-0 before losing to 22nd Ranked
Bethel (Tenn.). Of BC's three losses this season, all have come against
teams ranked or receiving votes in the NAIA Women's
Basketball Preseason Coaches Top-25 Poll.
Last
season Bluefield finished a program best 22-12 under Coach Melissa
Baker and advanced to the NCCAA National Tournament where they finished a
program best sixth
before falling to Emmanuel (Ga.).
Olivet
Nazarene (Ill.), Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.), Shorter (Ga.),
Southeastern (Fla.), and Malone (Ohio) all make an appearance in the
Top-10 after going unranked to start the season.
California
Baptist fell from the fourth spot to seventh and was the only team to
move down more than a spot and remain in the Top-10.
Indiana
Wesleyan is No. 1 in the poll with a Burbridge Power Ranking of 8.944.
Cedarville (Ohio) is No. 2 with an 8.583 Burbridge followed
by Campbellsville and Bluefield. Olivet Nazarene rounds out the
top-five with .068 point behind the Rams with a 7.714 Burbridge.
The
Rams return to action on Thursday with a 5:30 tip at Virginia Intermont
will play seven contests before facing Campbellsville on Jan.
12 before the Tigers arrive at the Dome Gymnasium Jan. 24.
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