Northeast-10 Has Seven Schools Ranked in Recent Women's Basketball Regional Poll

Thursday, February 21, 2008


The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee has released this week’s Division II women’s basketball regional rankings for contests through February 17, 2008. The regional rankings will be released every Wednesday through March 5.

For the fourth straight week the top five teams find themselves in the same position in the recent Northeast Regional rankings. Holy Family University of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) still claims the top spot in the region. The Tigers are followed by four Northeast-10 schools; Stonehill College, Franklin Pierce University, Assumption College and Bentley College respectively.

American International jumps a couple of spots into the sixth spot after being ranked eighth last week. Dominican College of the CACC jumped two spots as well from number nine to number seven.

Bryant University moved up to eighth this week, while Southern Connecticut State University slid down to ninth. Wilmington University steps back into the poll after being unranked last week.

Northeast Region Week #4

1. Holy Family
2. Stonehill
3. Franklin Pierce
4. Assumption
5. Bentley
6. American International
7. Dominican
8. Bryant
9. Southern Connecticut
10. Wilmington