Women's basketball team ranked eighth in D3hoops.com preseason poll
November 4, 2004
GREENCASTLE, Ind. - Coming off a 26-4 season, the DePauw women's basketball team enters the 2004-05 season ranked eighth by D3hoops.com.
Last year's Tigers advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship after winning their fifth Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title in their six years in the league. They finished the season ranked 11th by D3hoops.com.
Head coach Kris Huffman begins her 12th season with the Tigers and leads three returning starters and 11 letterwinners from the 2003-04 squad. DePauw opens the season on Friday, November 19, when it hosts Kalamazoo in the first round of the DePauw Tipoff Tournament.
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2004-05 D3hoops.com |
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| # | Team | W-L | Pts. |
2003-04 | ||||
| 1 | Bowdoin (14) | 30-1 | 585 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Southern Maine (2) | 29-2 | 577 | 5 | ||||
| 3 | New York University (3) | 23-4 | 536 | 7 | ||||
| 4 | UW-Stevens Point (2) | 28-5 | 529 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Rochester | 25-5 | 400 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | Hardin-Simmons | 27-3 | 376 | 10 | ||||
| 7 | Scranton | 27-3 | 374 | 6 | ||||
| 8 | DePauw | 26-4 | 368 | 11 | ||||
| 9 | McDaniel | 25-4 | 358 | 14 | ||||
| 10 | Washington U. | 22-5 | 343 | 8 | ||||
| 11 | Wilmington (3) | 27-6 | 328 | 1 | ||||
| 12 | Carleton | 25-3 | 271 | 21 | ||||
| 13 | Capital (1) | 20-7 | 266 | — | ||||
| 14 | Marymount | 26-5 | 254 | 9 | ||||
| 15 | Puget Sound | 23-5 | 253 | 16 | ||||
| 16 | UW-Oshkosh | 21-6 | 234 | 24 | ||||
| 17 | Trinity (Texas) | 24-3 | 196 | 12 | ||||
| 18 | Millikin | 22-6 | 176 | — | ||||
| 19 | Hope | 23-4 | 172 | — | ||||
| 20 | Messiah | 23-4 | 170 | 17 | ||||
| 21 | Buena Vista | 27-3 | 121 | 19 | ||||
| 22 | Brandeis | 22-5 | 104 | 18 | ||||
| 23 | Thomas More | 21-6 | 96 | 15 | ||||
| 24 | Johns Hopkins | 24-4 | 94 | 13 | ||||
| 25 | Washington and Jefferson | 20-9 | 87 | — | ||||
Others receiving votes: Cortland State 73, DeSales 70, Union 68, Randolph-Macon 58, Eastern Mennonite 56, Baldwin-Wallace 51, UW-Eau Claire 48, St. Benedict 48, Whitworth 44, Ithaca 39, Catholic 32, Calvin 31, Whitman 30, Rowan 29, Maryville (Mo.) 28, Gwynedd-Mercy 26, Eastern Connecticut 24, Albion 23, Wittenberg 16, St. John Fisher 13, Wheaton (Ill.) 13, Wesleyan 8, Ripon 8, Maryville (Tenn.) 6, Salem State 5, Colby-Sawyer 5, Bridgewater (Va.) 4, Chapman 1.
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