The Howard Payne Lady Jacket basketball team is pre-season ranked #16 in the D3hoops.com Pre-Season Top 25 Poll.
Howard Payne did not finish last season in the top 25 but were ranked the majority of last season. Three-time defending ASC champion Howard Payne (23-6, 16-5 ASC in 2008-09) have won four of the last five conference titles and claimed the NCAA III national championship in 2008.
The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
Howard Payne will start their season at Fred Jacoby Tip Off Classic at the University of Texas at Dallas on November 20-21, 2009. They will play the University of Texas at Tyler on Friday and the University of Texas at Dallas on Saturday.
The full 2009 D3hoops.com Pre-season Top 25 Poll:
Rk Team W-L Pts. Last
1 Washington U. (7) 26-5 588 2
2 Amherst (5) 29-4 579 6
3 Hope (7) 28-2 577 4
4 George Fox (6) 32-0 509 1
5 Scranton 26-5 492 11
6 Illinois Wesleyan 30-1 441 3
7 Bowdoin 24-5 394 22
8 UW-Whitewater 23-5 385 17
9 Brandeis 20-8 359 13
10 Muhlenberg 26-4 331 14
11 Kean 22-8 294 —
12 DePauw 22-8 261 —
13 Southern Maine 22-7 238 —
14 Chicago 17-8 222 —
15 Moravian 21-7 216 —
16 Howard Payne 23-6 205 —
17 Texas-Dallas 21-5 184 —
18 Trinity (Texas) 20-8 175 —
19 New York University 23-5 147 16
20 Marymount 20-7 144 —
21 New Jersey 28-5 141 5
22 Capital 22-6 119 —
23 UW-Stevens Point 26-4 110 7
24 St. Benedict 26-4 107 18
25 UW-Stout 16-11 104 —
Others receiving votes: Rochester 93, Tufts 87, Randolph-Macon 76, Messiah 70, UW-Eau Claire 49, DeSales 41, St. Norbert 39, Centre 38, Mary Washington 33, Cortland State 30, Thomas More 30, Roanoke 26, Washington and Jefferson 23, Transylvania 22, William Paterson 19, Baldwin-Wallace 17, Baruch 16, Stevens 16, Whitman 16, Simpson 15, Emmanuel 10, Eastern Connecticut 8, Calvin 5, Keene State 5, Pitt-Greensburg 4, Greensboro 3, Mount Union 3, Puget Sound 3, Hardin-Simmons 2, Western Connecticut 2, Babson 1, Occidental 1.
