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Women's Basketball Debuts In D2SIDA National Poll

Wildcats are No. 20 team in the country this week

1/12/2021 3:30:00 PM

By: CONTACT: Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate A.D. for External Operations & Communications | (716) 839-8385 | mmiranto@daemen.edu
AMHERST, N.Y. - For the first time in the program's NCAA Division II era, Daemen College women's basketball is a nationally ranked team. The Wildcats are ranked 20th in the latest  Division II Sports Information Directors of America (D2SIDA) National Media Poll which was released this afternoon.

The Wildcats' move into the national spotlight was preceded yesterday by their ascent to the top of the D2SIDA East Region Media Poll, also a program first. 

Daemen, the defending champions of the East Coast Conference, has not yet competed this season, but that's scheduled to change this weekend. The Wildcats will open their pandemic-shortened 2020-21 campaign when they host Mercyhurst for a 12 p.m. tip-off Saturday. Mercyhurst (5-0) is receiving votes in the national poll released today.  

The Wildcats return eight players, including three starters, from their 2019-20 team that went 23-5 overall and 13-3 in conference play. All-ECC selections Tiara Filbert (Batavia, N.Y.), Caroline White (Fairport, N.Y.) and Katie Titus (Penfield, N.Y.) lead the returners after combining for 40.4 points and 20.4 rebounds per game last season. Filbert, a 5-foot-9 redshirt senior guard who led the team in scoring (14.4 ppg) and assists (3.7 apg), was named the ECC Preseason Player of the Year last week.

The D2SIDA National Media Poll is conducted by sports information professionals representing the eight regions that comprise NCAA Division II. Today's poll is the first released by D2SIDA since early December. 
D2SIDA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NATIONAL MEDIA POLL - JAN. 12
W-L PTS. PREV.
1. Drury (15) 8-0 399 1
2. Ashland 2-0 376 2
3. Lubbock Christian 4-0 359 3
4. Hawaii Pacific 1-0 342 6
5. Nebraska-Kearney (1) 8-0 319 RV
6. Lander 4-0 297 13
7. Grand Valley State 2-0 290 T11
8. Valdosta State 7-0 277 NR
9. Minnesota-Duluth 3-0 241 18
10. Tusculum 7-0 235 NR
11. Alaska Anchorage 0-0 227 5
12. Charleston (W.Va.) 2-0 214 NR
13. Western Colorado 6-1 194 RV
14. Central Missouri 7-1 178 T21
15. North Georgia 3-0 165 16
16. Lee 4-1 157 T21
17. Texas A&M-Commerce 4-1 130 9
18. Southern Indiana 6-1 125 NR
19. Glenville State 1-1 97 17
20. DAEMEN 0-0 88 NR
21. Southwestern Oklahoma State 2-0 76 NR
22. West Texas A&M 3-1 68 19
23. Carson-Newman 3-0 60 NR
24. Northwest Nazarene 0-0 55 RV
25. Notre Dame (Ohio) 2-0 47 NR

( ) denotes first-place votes

Others receiving votes: Cedarville (35), Mississippi College (30), Concordia-St. Paul (29), St. Thomas Aquinas (16), Azusa Pacific (14), Colorado Mesa (14), Gannon (13), Belmont Abbey (10), Mercyhurst (8), West Alabama (8), Emporia State (4), Molloy (2), Truman (1)

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