Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Move Up to 22nd in USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
March 07, 2006 | Women's Basketball
March 7, 2006
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has moved up to 22nd in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches Poll, it was announced Tuesday afternoon (March 7). The Falcons jump two spots after spending last week in 24th place and each of the prior two weeks in the 25th spot.
This marks the second time in school history that the Falcons have been ranked in a poll in four consecutive weeks. The Brown and Orange 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 11th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in the USA Today poll, and BGSU has been the team in eight of those 11 weeks.
The Falcons, 25-2 overall, finished with a perfect 16-0 record in MAC regular-season play. BGSU opens action in the Kraft MAC Tournament with Wednesday's (March 8) quarterfinal game vs. Northern Illinois University. That contest will begin at 5:30 p.m. at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
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
USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 Poll
March 7, 2006
Rank School (FPV) Record Points Previous 1. North Carolina (30) 29-1 774 1 2. Ohio State (1) 28-2 704 5 3. Maryland 28-4 694 4 4. Duke 26-3 692 2 5. LSU 27-3 662 3 6. Tennessee 28-4 607 9 7. Connecticut 28-4 584 7 8. Oklahoma 26-4 578 8 9. Rutgers 25-4 547 6 10. Baylor 22-5 489 10 11. Purdue 24-6 453 11 12. Georgia 21-8 409 12 13. DePaul 25-6 372 15 14. Stanford 23-7 354 14 15. Arizona State 24-6 340 13 16. Louisiana Tech 23-4 274 18 17. Michigan State 22-9 259 17 18. Temple 24-7 224 20 19. Brigham Young 23-4 201 16 20. New Mexico 21-8 185 19 21. Utah 21-6 133 22 22. Bowling Green 25-2 114 24 23. Texas A&M 22-7 83 NR 24. Vanderbilt 20-10 65 23 25. Minnesota 19-9 64 21Dropped out: Boston College (25).
Others receiving votes: UCLA (20-10) 47; Chattanooga (27-3) 29; George Washington (22-8) 29; Tulsa (25-5) 23; Western Kentucky (24-5) 22; Indiana State (24-4) 12; Kentucky (21-7) 10; Old Dominion (19-8) 9; Boston College (19-11) 7; St. John's (21-7) 5; Hartford (23-3) 4; Florida (21-8) 3; Florida State (19-9) 3; Liberty (22-5) 3; Missouri (20-8) 3; Wyoming (20-7) 2; Indiana (17-13) 1; North Carolina State (19-11) 1; Virginia Tech (20-9) 1.
