IUP WOMEN ROLL INTO TOP 25

The IUP women have beaten two Top 25 teams in the season’s first five games and yesterday they appeared in the national rankings themselves for the first time. The 5-0 Crimson Hawks are ranked twentieth in the nation. IUP is outscoring its opponents by an average of 32.8 points per game so far. Grand Valley State is ranked number one. Only one other PSAC school, 5-1 Gannon, is ranked in the Top 25. They are seventh.

IUP returns to action December 5^th in a PSAC East-West crossover game at Kutztown.

Rank	School (record)	Points	Last week’s rank	First-place votes
1	Grand Valley State (4-0)	575	1	23
2t	Coker (4-0)	485	4	0
2t	Pittsburg State (3-0)	485	2	0
4	Fort Hays State (4-0)	474	3	0
5	Minnesota State Mankato (5-0)	454	8	0
6	Lubbock Christian (6-0)	438	7	0
7	Gannon (5-1)	431	5	0
8	Texas Woman’s (4-1)	420	6	0
9	Embry-Riddle (4-0)	376	9	0
10	Harding (4-0)	362	10	0
11	Fairmont State (4-0)	330	11	0
12	Nova Southeastern (4-0)	297	12t	0
13	West Texas A&M (4-1)	242	19	0
14	Union, TN (4-2)	222	12t	0
15	Colorado Mesa (6-1)	215	21	0
16	Concordia-St. Paul (3-1)	207	17	0
17	Alaska Anchorage (5-0)	184	22	0
18	Northern Michigan (6-1)	172	15	0
19	Ferris State (5-1)	129	24	0
20	Indiana, PA (4-0)	127	RV	0
21	Bentley (2-1)	102	23	0
22	Columbus State (3-1)	98	18	0
23	Central Washington (4-0)	78	RV	0
24	Holy Family (3-1)	69	20	0
25	Cal Poly Pomona (2-1)	63	25	0

Dropped Out: No. 14 North Georgia (4-3); No. 16 Ashland (2-2).

Others receiving votes: California State L.A. (3-0) 62; Mary (6-0) 60; Malone (4-0) 53; North Georgia (4-3) 52; Ashland (2-2) 44; Vanguard U. (3-1) 22; Texas-Tyler (3-3) 19; Lee, TN (2-1) 12; Daemen (3-1) 9; Fayetteville State (3-1) 9; Adams State (4-2) 8; Washburn (3-1) 7; Michigan Tech (4-0) 5; Lincoln Memorial (4-0) 3.