Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Ranked 24th in USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
February 28, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 28, 2006
OXFORD, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team is ranked 24th in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches Poll, it was announced Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 28). The Falcons move up a spot after spending each of the last two weeks in 25th place.
This marks the second time in school history that the Falcons have been ranked in the poll in three consecutive weeks. The Brown and Orange appeared in the poll in three-straight weeks in March of 1993, peaking at #20. The team's lone poll appearance in March, 1994, saw the Falcons ranked 24th.
This week's ranking marks only the 10th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in the USA Today poll, and BGSU has been the team in seven of those 10 weeks.
The Falcons, 24-2 overall and 15-0 in MAC play, close the regular season with a Tuesday night (Feb. 28) game at Miami University. Following that game, BGSU will have over a week off before opening play in the Kraft MAC Tournament. The Falcons, who have a first-round bye, will face an opponent to be determined in the quarterfinal round of the league tourney. BG's tournament game will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
MAC Schools' Weekly USA Today Top-25 Appearances
Date School Rank 2/18/86 Ohio 25 2/25/86 Ohio 243/1/93 Bowling Green 20 3/9/93 Bowling Green 22 3/16/93 Bowling Green 20
3/15/94 Bowling Green 24
2/15/99 Toledo 25
2/14/06 Bowling Green 25 2/21/06 Bowling Green 25 2/28/06 Bowling Green 24
USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 Poll
Feb. 28, 2006
Rank School (FPV) Record Points Previous 1. North Carolina (30) 26-1 774 2 2. Duke 25-2 738 1 3. LSU 25-2 700 3 4. Maryland 26-3 677 4 5. Ohio State (1) 25-2 643 7 6. Rutgers 24-3 627 8 7. Connecticut 26-4 579 6 8. Oklahoma 25-4 552 9 9. Tennessee 25-4 551 5 10. Baylor 21-5 487 10 11. Purdue 22-5 439 11 12. Georgia 20-7 438 12 13. Arizona State 23-5 383 13 14. Stanford 21-6 365 15 15. DePaul 23-5 362 14 16. Brigham Young 22-3 274 18 17. Michigan State 21-8 266 16 18. Louisiana Tech 22-4 206 20 19. New Mexico 20-7 160 22 20. Temple 21-7 149 17 21. Minnesota 19-8 147 21 22. Utah 20-5 132 24 23. Vanderbilt 19-9 98 23 24. Bowling Green 24-2 63 25 25. Boston College 19-10 51 19Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: Texas A&M (21-7) 41; Florida (20-7) 30; George Washington (20-7) 30; Missouri (20-7) 27; Western Kentucky (22-5) 19; St. John's (20-6) 18; Tulsa (22-5) 12; Chattanooga (24-3) 11; Florida State (19-8) 9; Indiana State (22-4) 8; Hartford (22-3) 2; Old Dominion (18-7) 2; Kentucky (20-7) 1; Liberty (21-5) 1; Miami (Fla.) (16-11) 1; Western Illinois (21-5) 1; Wyoming (19-6) 1.
