Kentucky Wesleyan, host of the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship this weekend, finshed No. 5 in the final weekly National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division II Top 25 men's basketball poll of the 2009-10 season today.
The No. 1 seed Panthers (29-4) will play No. 8 seed and fellow Great Lakes Valley Conference member Saint Joseph's (17-11) on Saturday at 6 p.m. CT. Tickets for the NCAA Midwest Region Men's Basketball Championship go on sale Monday, March 8 at 8 a.m. in the lobby of the Woodward Health and Recreation Center.
This marks the 307th time, a Division II record, KWC has been in the Top 25 since the ratings started in 1961.
Arkansas Tech returned to No. 1 and the only other GLVC teams in the poll were No. 9 Southern Indiana and No. 19 Bellarmine.
Final NABC/Division II Coaches Poll (March 9, 2010)
No. W-L Pts LW
1. Arkansas Tech (8 1st place votes) 29-1 200 2
2. Indiana (Pa.) 28-2 189 5
3. Midwestern State 28-2 182 6
4. Augusta State 26-3 170 1
5. Kentucky Wesleyan 29-4 166 3
6. Valdosta State 25-4 156 7
7. Central Missouri 25-3 145 4
8. Minnesota State 24-4 144 8
9. Southern Indiana 24-3 137 11
10. West Liberty 27-2 120 10
11. Rollins 25-5 114 17
12. West Virginia State 28-3 105 18
13. Florida Southern 25-4 89 12
14. Fort Hays State 22-6 81 13
15. Western Washington 25-5 78 21
16. St. Cloud State 25-5 70 24
17. Georgia College & State 22-5 66 14
18. Seattle Pacific 22-5 64 9
19. Bellarmine 22-8 45 nr
20. Stonehill 23-5 44 16
21. Metropolitan State 23-6 42 nr
22. Clark Atlanta 24-6 38 20
23. St. Augustine's 26-4 35 nr
24. Mount Olive. 25-5 25 nr
25. Augustana (SD) 22-6 23 15
Others receiving votes: Bentley (Mass.) 23, Mesa State (Colo.) 15, Drury (Mo.) 11, Kutztown (Pa.) 7, East Stroudsburg (Pa.) 6, Cal Poly Pomona 3.
Records are through games of March 7, 2010...previous ranking is from March 2 poll.
