Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Now 18th in USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll
February 27, 2007 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 27, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team is ranked 18th in the country in the latest USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll. The latest version of the poll was released late Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 27).
The Falcons dropped two spots from the previous week's rankings. BGSU split a pair of games last week, winning an 89-66 decision at Kent State on Tuesday (Feb. 20) before seeing an 18-game winning streak snapped with Saturday's (Feb. 24) 70-67 loss to Ohio.
The Falcons, 25-3 overall and 14-1 in the Mid-American Conference, conclude the regular season with Wednesday's (Feb. 28) home game vs. Miami. Tipoff is at 7:00 p.m., with 'Senior Night' festivities scheduled to begin approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the game.
The complete poll ...
USA TODAY ESPN DIVISION I TOP 25 COACHES' POLL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Week 16 Poll: February 27, 2007> The Top 25 women's basketball coaches poll, with team's RECORDS THROUGH MONDAY in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week's poll and first-place votes received:
|
Rank
|
School (2006-07 record) |
Points
|
Last Week's Rank
|
First-Place Votes
|
|
1
|
Duke (29-0) |
775
|
1
|
31
|
|
2
|
Tennessee (27-2) |
742
|
2
|
0
|
|
3
|
Connecticut (27-2) |
713
|
3
|
0
|
|
4
|
North Carolina (27-3) |
677
|
4
|
0
|
|
5
|
Maryland (26-4) |
632
|
5
|
0
|
|
6
|
Ohio State (26-2) |
617
|
6
|
0
|
|
7
|
Arizona State (26-3) |
564
|
8
|
0
|
|
8
|
Stanford (25-4) |
543
|
10
|
0
|
|
9
|
George Washington (25-2) |
535
|
9
|
0
|
|
10
|
LSU (24-6) |
497
|
7
|
0
|
|
11
|
Oklahoma (22-4) |
453
|
11
|
0
|
|
12
|
Georgia (24-5) |
444
|
12 (Tie)
|
0
|
|
13
|
Vanderbilt (24-5) |
414
|
12 (Tie)
|
0
|
|
14
|
Purdue (25-5) |
345
|
15
|
0
|
|
15
|
Baylor (24-5) |
332
|
14
|
0
|
|
16
|
Texas A&M (22-5) |
321
|
18
|
0
|
|
17
|
Middle Tennessee (26-3) |
303
|
17
|
0
|
|
18
|
Bowling Green (25-3) |
215
|
16
|
0
|
|
19
|
Marquette (24-5) |
180
|
19
|
0
|
|
20
|
UW-Green Bay (23-3) |
151
|
24
|
0
|
|
21(Tie)
|
Rutgers (19-8) |
129
|
22
|
0
|
|
21(Tie)
|
Louisville (24-6) |
129
|
21
|
0
|
|
23
|
Michigan State (22-7) |
115
|
20
|
0
|
|
24
|
California (22-7) |
64
|
not ranked
|
0
|
|
25
|
NC State (21-8) |
59
|
not ranked
|
0
|
Dropped out: No. 24 Nebraska (21-7), No. 25 James Madison (24-2).
Others receiving votes: Montana (26-2) 36; Pittsburgh (22-7) 15; Iowa State (21-7) 13; Nebraska 10; Brigham Young (20-7) 8; James Madison 7; Delaware (24-4) 6; Florida State (21-8) 6; Tulane (24-5) 6; Temple (23-6) 5; New Mexico (20-7) 4; Southern Illinois (18-9) 4; Old Dominion (19-8) 2; Louisiana-Lafayette (23-7) 1; Oklahoma State (19-9) 1; Western Kentucky (20-7) 1; Xavier (23-7) 1.
