Averett Men's Basketball Ranked 12th While Christopher Newport Lands at 25th In Current D3Hoops.com Top-25 Poll

December 19, 2006 - Two USA South teams are nationally ranked as Averett is 12th and Christopher Newport is 25th. The Cougars rose three spots after defeating Newport News, 85-68, and Marymount (Va.), 88-72, in their only action last week. Averett, which owns a 9-0 record, is off to the best start in its program's history. Christopher Newport returns to the Top-25 after being ranked in the preseason poll. CNU currently holds a 5-2 record and has won its last five games. The poll is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and writers from around the country and is published weekly at http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/.  This week's Top 25 follows:

# Team W-L Pts. Last Week 1 Wooster (22) 8-0 622 1 2 Amherst (3) 8-0 586 2 3 Virginia Wesleyan 7-1 565 3 4 St. Thomas 6-0 543 4 5 UW-Stevens Point 9-0 537 5 6 Wittenberg 6-1 468 6 7 Ohio Northern 7-1 434 7 8 Whitworth 10-0 424 8 9 Augustana 8-1 365 10 10 William Paterson 8-1 354 11 11 Mississippi College 8-1 322 12 12 Averett 9-0 286 15 13 Johns Hopkins 9-0 267 14 14 Lawrence 4-2 233 9 15 Puget Sound 8-1 225 17 16 Bates 8-0 223 16 17 Wheaton (Ill.) 5-3 212 20 18 Carthage 6-1 192 25 19 Hope 6-2 150 22 20 Chicago 7-1 141 23 21 UW-Platteville 6-2 134 13 22 DePauw 7-1 126 24 23 New York University 7-0 72 — 24 North Central 5-1 70 — 25 Christopher Newport 5-2 69 — Dropped out: No. 18 Lincoln, No. 19 Aurora, No. 21 UW-La Crosse Others receiving votes: UW-Oshkosh 52, Brandeis 50, Occidental 43, Washington U. 41, Baldwin-Wallace 40, Calvin 37, Elmhurst 29, Aurora 28, UW-La Crosse 23, Worcester Polytech 22, Rutgers-Newark 19, Tufts 19, Lincoln 17, Guilford 14, Rhode Island College 14, Rochester 13, Salem State 12, Utica 12, Ramapo 10, Ohio Wesleyan 4, UW-Whitewater 4, Bluffton 1, Keene State 1.