Wednesday, January 16, 2013

XU Gold Nuggets drop three places to 12th in NAIA poll

NEW ORLEANS — After more than 40 days and three consecutive appearances in the top 10, Xavier University of Louisiana dropped three places to 12th Tuesday in the NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll.

Voting was based on games through Sunday. Xavier lost 63-56 at home to SUNO — the Gold Nuggets' second consecutive Monday defeat — to fall to 12-4 overall and 2-2 in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. One week earlier, the Nuggets lost 68-65 at Talladega.
    
Nevertheless, the Gold Nuggets are in the top 25 for the 36th consecutive time dating to Jan. 25, 2010.
    
Xavier was one of four teams from last week's top 10 to drop, including Lubbock Christian, top-ranked in the first four polls of the season but No. 2 after its 79-68 home loss Thursday to defending national champion Oklahoma City. OCU climbed from sixth to fourth.
    
The Gold Nuggets will complete a four-game home stand with GCAC games against Philander Smith at 2 p.m. Saturday and Fisk at 3 p.m. Monday. Both games will be played at XU's new Convocation Center, and they'll follow XU men's games against those same schools.
    
The next poll will be announced Jan. 22.

NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses — records through Sunday, Jan. 13)
Rank
Team
Record
Points
Last
1
Vanguard (11)
11-0
281
2
2
Lubbock Christian
17-1
271
1
3
Freed-Hardeman
17-1
261
3
4
Oklahoma City
12-2
250
6
5
Westminster (Utah)
16-2
249
4
6
Lee (Tenn.)
15-1
237
5
7
Cumberland
16-1
224
7
8
The Master's
15-0
221
8
9
Campbellsville
14-3
208
10
10
MidAmerica Nazarene
16-2
197
11
11
Westmont
11-3
192
12
12
Xavier
12-3
184
9
13-tie
Bethel (Tenn.)
14-4
169
14
13-tie
Rogers State
14-4
169
15
15
Lyon
14-2
150
19
16
Georgetown (Ky.)
11-6
140
23
17
Benedictine (Kan.)
15-3
120
21
18
Wiley
15-1
118
20
19
William Woods
12-2
117
16
20
Shawnee State
14-5
116
13
21
Auburn Montgomery
13-4
100
18
22
Central Methodist
16-2
94
17
23
Our Lady of the Lake
16-1
86
24
24
Faulkner
16-4
82
22
25
St. Catharine
11-4
69
RV

Others receiving votes: Carroll (Mont.) 52, LSU-Shreveport 46, Columbia (Mo.) 32, Cumberlands 25, Coastal Georgia 11, Robert Morris (Chicago) 6, Biola 5, SUNO 3.



By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
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