Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Ranked 21st in USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
March 13, 2006 | Women's Basketball
March 13, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has moved up to 21st in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches Poll, it was announced Monday afternoon (March 13). The Falcons jump one spot after spending last week in 22nd place.
This marks the first time in school history that the Falcons have been ranked in a poll in five consecutive weeks, or in five weeks during the same season. The Brown and Orange had appeared in the Associated Press poll during each of the last four weeks of the 1992-93 season.
In the USA Today poll, the Falcons appeared 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 12th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in the USA Today poll, and BGSU has been the team in nine of those 12 weeks.
The Falcons, 28-2 overall, finished with a perfect 16-0 record in MAC regular-season play, then won the Kraft MAC Tournament last weekend. BGSU will play in the NCAA Championships this weekend, with the Falcons' first-round game date, site and opponent to be announced Monday night (March 13) at 7:00 p.m. EST on ESPN.
THE MAC AND THE POLLS: A COMPLETE HISTORY
MAC Schools' Weekly Associated Press Top-25 Appearances
Date School Rank 2/23/93 Bowling Green 25 3/2/93 Bowling Green 22 3/9/93 Bowling Green 22 3/16/93 Bowling Green 192/8/94 Toledo 23 2/15/94 Toledo 25 3/8/94 Bowling Green 25 3/15/94 Bowling Green 24
3/8/99 Toledo 25
11/19/01 Toledo 24
3/6/06 Bowling Green 24
MAC Schools' Weekly USA Today Top-25 Appearances
Date School Rank 2/18/86 Ohio 25 2/25/86 Ohio 24Note: Northern Illinois has made multiple appearances in both polls, but none came while the school was a member of the MAC.3/1/93 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 3/7/06 Bowling Green 22 3/13/06 Bowling Green 21
USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 Poll
March 13, 2006
Rank School (FPV) Record Points Previous 1. North Carolina (30) 29-1 774 1 2. Ohio State (1) 28-2 731 2 3. Maryland 28-4 689 3 4. Duke 26-3 677 4 5. LSU 27-3 644 5 6. Tennessee 28-4 625 6 7. Connecticut 28-4 598 7 8. Oklahoma 29-4 586 8 9. Rutgers 25-4 503 9 10. Baylor 24-6 497 10 11. Purdue 24-6 469 11 12. Georgia 21-8 420 12 13. DePaul 25-6 377 13 14. Stanford 23-7 345 14 15. Arizona State 24-6 316 15 16. Louisiana Tech 26-4 294 16 17. Michigan State 22-9 259 17 18. Temple 24-7 248 18 19. Utah 24-6 235 21 20. Brigham Young 25-5 148 19 21. Bowling Green 28-2 137 22 22. Texas A&M 23-8 119 23 23. UCLA 20-10 90 NR 24. New Mexico 21-9 88 20 25. Vanderbilt 20-10 58 24Dropped out: Minnesota (25).
Others receiving votes: Chattanooga (27-3) 30; Tulsa (25-5) 25; Minnesota (19-9) 23; George Washington (22-8) 19; Old Dominion (22-8) 16; St. John's (21-7) 8; Kentucky (21-8) 6; Hartford (26-3) 5; Liberty (25-5) 4; Indiana State (26-5) 3; Florida (21-8) 2; Florida State (19-9) 2; Western Kentucky (24-6) 2; Marist (23-6) 1; Middle Tennessee (20-10) 1; Virginia Tech (20-9) 1.
