Friday, March 29, 2013

Gold Nuggets drop 5 places, rank 17th in postseason poll

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana dropped five spots to finish 17th Wednesday in the NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Postseason Poll.

It's the lowest rank of the season for the Gold Nuggets (24-6), who closed the regular season with 12 consecutive victories before losing to Fisk in the quarterfinals of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament and to Faulkner in the opening round of the NAIA Division I National Championship.

Xavier was 11th in the preseason poll and spent six weeks in the top 10, including highs of ninth place on Dec. 11 and Jan. 8. The Nuggets were 10th on Feb. 26.

This is the fourth consecutive year and the 10th time in Bo Browder's 14 seasons as head coach that the Gold Nuggets are in the final top 25 of the season. This is the second consecutive year that the final poll was conducted after the national tournament. Xavier was 16th in the 2012 postseason poll.

Xavier will enter the 2013-14 season trying to extend a streak of 44 consecutive top-25 appearances. That streak began on Jan. 25, 2010.

NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches'
Postseason Top 25 Poll

(first-place votes in parentheses — records through end of season)
Rank Team Record Points Last
1 Westmont (11) 30-4 281 4
2 Lee (Tenn.) 34-3 271 7
3 Freed-Hardeman 34-2 262 1
4 Cumberland 33-3 255 6
5 Oklahoma City 28-4 245 2
6 Lubbock Christian 31-4 233 3
7 Westminster (Utah) 29-4 231 5
8 Vanguard 25-4 218 8
9 MidAmerica Nazarene 30-3 207 9
10 Campbellsville 25-10 196 14
11 Benedictine (Kan.) 28-6 189 11
12 The Master's 25-6 172 10
13 Georgetown (Ky.) 23-10 171 16
14 Rogers State 24-10 168 15
15 Shawnee State 24-10 149 18
16 Columbia (Mo.) 27-7 147 13
17Xavier24-614312
18 Faulkner 26-7 131 21
19 Wiley 29-4 114 17
20 Lyon 28-5 110 20
21 Carroll (Mont.) 21-10 108 23
22 William Woods 26-6 99 22
23 Our Lady of the Lake 30-4 82 20
24 Bethel (Tenn.) 21-11 66 24
25 Southern Poly 25-6 65 RV

Others receiving votes: LSU-Shreveport 64, St. Catharine 37, Coastal Georgia 36, Cumberlands 35, SUNO 17, Central Methodist 11, Auburn Montgomery 3.

By Ed Cassiere, SID
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
XULAATHLETICS

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