Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Same points for Nuggets, who resume schedule at LOC

NEW ORLEANS — For the second consecutive time, Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketball received 10 points in the NAIA Division I coaches poll. But the new rankings announced Wednesday placed the Gold Nuggets among the "others receiving votes" at 33rd, three spots lower than they were Dec. 4.
     
XULA (10-4) will play LeMoyne-Owen (5-8) of NCAA Division II at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at LOC's Bruce-Johnson Hall in Memphis, Tenn. It will be the Gold Nuggets' first game in 16 days. Then on Monday, XULA will open its Gulf Coast Athletic Conference schedule at 5:30 p.m. in the Convocation Center against Tougaloo.
     

The XULA women have won five of their last six games.
     

XULA was one of two GCAC teams to receive votes in this week's poll. The other was Talladega, whose No. 12 ranking is the highest for the GCAC since the Gold Nuggets were ninth on Dec. 8, 2015. Talladega's ranking is its highest since Jan. 28, 2014, when it was 11th.
     

Defending national champion Freed-Hardeman climbed from second to first and received all nine first-place votes.

NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses — records through Dec. 31)

RANKPREVIOUSSCHOOL RECORDPOINTS
12Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) (9)12-0219
tie-24Columbia (Mo.)9-2205
tie-26MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)11-1205
49Montana Western11-0200
51Vanguard (Calif.)11-2193
63Wayland Baptist (Texas)10-2184
75Campbellsville (Ky.)14-2179
tie-87Shawnee State (Ohio)13-3162
tie-88Carroll (Mont.)11-3162
1010Oklahoma City11-1157
1114Menlo (Calif.)11-2154
1215Talladega (Ala.)14-2133
1313Providence (Mont.)11-3132
1412Our Lady of the Lake (Texas)11-4127
1511Westmont (Calif.)9-4126
16RVLewis-Clark State (Idaho)11-2112
1716Bethel (Tenn.)10-3103
1817Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)9-394
1819Lyon (Ark.)10-194
2020William Penn (Iowa)12-193
2122The Master's (Calif.)10-488
2218Rocky Mountain (Mont.)11-373
2324Central Methodist (Mo.)9-463
24RVWilliam Jessup (Calif.)12-248
25RVLSU-Alexandria (La.)11-246
Dropped from the Top 25: No. 21 Arizona Christian, No. 23 Baker (Kan.), No. 25 Dillard (La.)
Others Receiving Votes: Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 29, Georgetown (Ky.) 28, Loyola (La.) 20, Baker (Kan.) 15, Arizona Christian 14, Huston-Tillotson (Texas) 13, William Woods (Mo.) 12, Xavier (La.) 10, Martin Methodist (Tenn.) 7, Evangel (Mo.) 4

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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