Women's Basketball Ranked 2nd In First D2SIDA East Region Poll Of 2022-23

11/14/2022 12:54:00 PM

By: CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

AMHERST, N.Y. – The Daemen University women's basketball team is ranked second among 10 teams in the first NCAA Division II Sports Information Directors of America (D2SIDA) East Region Women's Basketball Media Poll for 2022-23. The poll was released this afternoon. The Wildcats have now been ranked in 35 consecutive D2SIDA regional polls, a span that dates back to early January 2019.

Daemen (2-0) opened the 2022-23 season with wins over nationally-ranked Pace and Felician this past weekend at the Redhawks Classic hosted by Roberts Wesleyan.. The game between Daemen and Pace was a rematch of last year's NCAA Division II Tournament East Region final won by Pace 67-65. Pace entered the game ranked No. 22 in the WBCA Division II Top-25, while Daemen was receiving votes in the same poll.

Newcomer Paige Emborsky (Newfane, N.Y.) paced the Wildcats this past weekend. The former Niagara County Community College standout who spent the last two seasons at Division I Abilene Christian University, connected on 6-of-9 three-pointers and averaged 15.5 points over the two games. She scored a team-high 17 points in the win over Pace.

Daemen will host two teams from the Northeast-10 Conference this week. The Wildcats will square off against Le Moyne on Wednesday and Saint Michael's on Sunday. Le Moyne, which comes to town sporting a 2-0 record, is tied for third in the D2SIDA East Region with Chestnut Hill College.

Daemen accumulated 48 points in the poll. Bentley collected all six first place votes and sits atop the poll with 60 points. Chestnut Hill (43 pts), Le Moyne (43) and Jefferson (38) round out the top five. The remainder of the poll includes Southern Connecticut State (33), St. Thomas Aquinas (20), Pace (17), Southern New Hampshire (13) and Assumption (5).

The D2SIDA East Region media poll is conducted by sports information professionals representing the East Coast Conference, Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and Northeast-10 Conference.

*D2SIDA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL EAST REGION MEDIA POLL - WEEK 1*
	W-L	PTS.	LAST WEEK
1. Bentley (6)	2-0	60
2. DAEMEN	2-0	48
T3. Chestnut Hill	2-0	43
T3. Le Moyne	2-0	43
5. Jefferson	2-0	38
6. Southern Connecticut	1-0	33
7. St. Thomas Aquinas	2-0	20
8. Pace	1-1	17
9. Southern New Hampshire	1-1	13
10. Assumption	1-1	5

( ) denotes first-place votes

Others receiving votes: Bridgeport, District of Columbia, Post, Saint Anselm, New Haven

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