Tigers move up to sixth in D3hoops.com poll
December 21, 2004
December 21, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - The 6-1 DePauw women's basketball team, winners of five straight, moved up one spot to sixth in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25 poll.Bowdoin remained the top ranked team in the country, but there were changes at the next five spots. Capital is now ranked second followed by Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Puget Sound, Washington (Mo.) and DePauw.
DePauw returns to action tonight when they face 25th-ranked and 7-0 Ripon in the adidas D-3 Desert Shootout in Las Vegas. Tipoff for that game is 5:45 p.m. PST (8:45 in Greencastle) and the live broadcast can be heard on WGRE.
D3 Hoops.com Top 25 Week 5 women's poll
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | Bowdoin (21) | 7-0 | 620 | 1 |
| 2 | Capital (3) | 9-0 | 588 | 4 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh (1) | 10-0 | 568 | 5 |
| 4 | Puget Sound | 6-0 | 523 | 6 |
| 5 | Washington U. | 9-1 | 461 | 8 |
| 6 | DePauw | 6-1 | 439 | 7 |
| 7 | New York University | 7-1 | 425 | 2 |
| 8 | Hardin-Simmons | 7-1 | 405 | 3 |
| 9 | Trinity (Texas) | 6-1 | 403 | 9 |
| 10 | Messiah | 7-0 | 377 | 10 |
| 11 | Scranton | 8-1 | 324 | 12 |
| 12 | Brandeis | 7-0 | 318 | 11 |
| 13 | Bates | 8-0 | 292 | 16 |
| 14 | Randolph-Macon | 7-0 | 269 | 17 |
| 15 | King's | 9-0 | 257 | 18 |
| 16 | Southern Maine | 5-2 | 235 | 15 |
| 17 | Rochester | 5-2 | 212 | 14 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 7-1 | 206 | 19 |
| 19 | Millikin | 8-1 | 195 | 20 |
| 20 | St. Benedict | 6-1 | 135 | 21 |
| 21 | Whitworth | 7-0 | 121 | 24 |
| 22 | Union | 4-1 | 110 | 23 |
| 23 | Wilmington | 8-2 | 101 | 13 |
| 24 | DeSales | 7-1 | 76 | 25 |
| 25 | Ripon | 7-0 | 70 | — |