Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Ranked 15th in Final USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll
April 05, 2007 | Women's Basketball
April 5, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team enjoyed a record-setting season in 2006-07. On Thursday (April 5), the Falcons added yet another record to the lengthy list.
The final USA Today/ESPN Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll was released, and BGSU was ranked 15th in the nation. The 15th-place standing is the best in school and MAC history.
BGSU moved up four spots from the previous poll, which was released on March 12, prior to the start of the NCAA and WNIT tournaments.
The previous BGSU- and MAC-best ranking in any poll was 16th, a position reached by the Falcons earlier in the season. BG was ranked 16th in the USA Today/ESPN poll in three weeks this year (Jan. 23, Jan. 30, Feb. 20), and the Falcons reached that lofty standing in the Jan. 22 Associated Press poll as well.
The Falcons have been ranked in 17 consecutive USA Today/ESPN polls, shattering the school and conference records in that category as well.
Thursday's poll marks the 29th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in the USA Today/ESPN poll, and BGSU has been that team in 26 of the 29 weeks, including 22 weeks under coach Curt Miller.
Miller and the Falcons finished with a 31-4 record in the '06-07 campaign, setting school and MAC records in wins for the second-straight year. In fact, the win total was the highest by a MAC basketball team -- men or women -- in league history.
The Falcons also became the first MAC women's team ever to advance to the 'Sweet 16' of the NCAA Championships, beating Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt in the first two rounds of the national tournament. The Falcons have a record of 103-25 over the last four years.
USA TODAY ESPN DIVISION I TOP 25 COACHES' POLL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Week 19 Poll: April 4, 2007The FINAL OVERALL Top 25 women's basketball coaches poll, with each team's final records in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in the final regular-season poll (March 12) and first-place votes received:
|
Rank
|
School (2006-07 record) |
Points
|
Last Week's Rank
|
First-Place Votes
|
|
1
|
Tennessee (34-3) |
775
|
4
|
31
|
|
2
|
Rutgers (27-9) |
727
|
18
|
0
|
|
3
|
North Carolina (34-4) |
724
|
2
|
0
|
|
4
|
LSU (30-8) |
678
|
11
|
0
|
|
5
|
Connecticut (32-4) |
630
|
3
|
0
|
|
6
|
Duke (32-2) |
597
|
1
|
0
|
|
7
|
Purdue (31-6) |
569
|
12
|
0
|
|
8
|
Arizona State (31-5) |
549
|
9
|
0
|
|
9
|
Oklahoma (28-5) |
474
|
10
|
0
|
|
10
|
Mississippi (24-11) |
434
|
not ranked
|
0
|
|
11
|
George Washington (28-4) |
408
|
13
|
0
|
|
12
|
NC State (25-10) |
404
|
20
|
0
|
|
13
|
Georgia (27-7) |
387
|
14
|
0
|
|
14
|
Maryland (28-6) |
368
|
6
|
0
|
|
15
|
Bowling Green (31-4) |
306
|
19
|
0
|
|
16
|
Stanford (29-5) |
298
|
5
|
0
|
|
17
|
Vanderbilt (28-6) |
271
|
8
|
0
|
|
18
|
Ohio State (28-4) |
201
|
7
|
0
|
|
19
|
Florida State (24-10) |
198
|
not ranked
|
0
|
|
20
|
Baylor (26-8) |
189
|
17
|
0
|
|
21
|
Texas A&M (25-7) |
181
|
15
|
0
|
|
22
|
Marist (29-6) |
137
|
not ranked
|
0
|
|
23
|
Middle Tennessee (30-4) |
104
|
16
|
0
|
|
24
|
Louisville (27-8) |
92
|
24
|
0
|
|
25
|
Michigan State (24-9) |
79
|
23
|
0
|
Dropped out: No. 21 Marquette, No. 22 Wisconsin-Green Bay, No. 25 Iowa State.
Others receiving votes: Marquette (26-7) 69; Wisconsin-Green Bay (29-4)
53; Notre Dame (20-12) 50; Pittsburgh (24-9) 35; Iowa State (26-9) 26; California
(23-9) 15; Georgia Tech (21-12) 13; Wyoming (27-9) 10; West Virginia (21-11)
8; Temple (25-8) 6; Wisconsin (23-13) 5; Nebraska (22-10) 3; Washington (18-13)
2.
The USA TODAY/ESPN Board of Coaches is made up of 31 head coaches at Division
I institutions. All are members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
The board for 2006-07: Agnus Berenato, Pittsburgh; Pam Borton, Minnesota; Beth
Burns, San Diego State; Pokey Chatman/Bob Starkey, LSU; Debra Clark, Florida
A&M; Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Prairie View; Beth Couture, Butler; Mary Taylor
Cowles, Western Kentucky; Leslie Crane, Western Illinois; Tricia Cullop, Evansville;
Brian Giorgis, Marist; Kellie Harper, Western Carolina; Mary Hegarty, Long
Beach State; Melissa McFerrin, American; Kevin McGuff, Xavier; Tina Martin,
Delaware; Curt Miller, Bowling Green; Dan Muscatell, Sacramento State; Paul
Nixon, Columbia; Jill Poe, St. Francis (Pa.); Jeri Porter, Radford; Rick Reeves,
Gardner-Webb; Lee Ann Riley, Stephen F. Austin; Jennifer Rizzotti, Hartford;
Rhonda Rompola, Southern Methodist; Julie Rousseau, Pepperdine; Brady Sallee,
Eastern Illinois; Cindy Stein, Missouri; LaVonda Wagner, Oregon State; AdrianWiggins,
Fresno State; Kay Yow, North Carolina State.
The WBCA prohibits schools on major NCAA or conference probation from receiving votes.
