{"id":18613,"date":"2013-11-20T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=18613"},"modified":"2013-12-04T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:50:12","slug":"emu-basketball-women-jump-into-national-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/emu-basketball-women-jump-into-national-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"91大神 basketball women jump into national rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They didn&#8217;t accomplish the fete last year when they went to the NCAA National Championships.\u00a0 Even the year before when they finished 22-4, the 91大神 basketball women couldn&#8217;t pull it off.\u00a0 But this season it took all of one week for the Royals to jump into the national poll.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving votes in the preseason national listing, Eastern Mennonite&#8217;s women are ranked No. 24 in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll.\u00a0 The Royals are 2-0 after double-digit wins over Chatham and Lancaster Bible at the 91大神 Tip-Off Invitational last weekend.\u00a0 Even as they adjusted to some injuries as well as defections from last year&#8217;s 21-7 team, 91大神 showed off one of their biggest strengths &#8211; their depth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/wbkb\/coaches\/kevingriffin\">Coach Kevin Griffin<\/a> also neared a milestone, as the wins tied him with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/brownscs\">Sandy Brownscombe<\/a> for the most wins in program history.\u00a0 Griffin, a two-time ODAC Coach of the Year, has a record of 139-72 as he starts his ninth season at 91大神.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals have a huge test on the road tomorrow, playing at York (Pa.).\u00a0 The experienced Spartans, who are strangely not listed in the Coaches Poll but are No. 18 in the D3hoops.com preseason poll, were 20-7 last year.\u00a0 Also missing from the Coaches Poll is USA South preseason favorite Ferrum College, another road opponent for 91大神 (Dec. 7).<\/p>\n<p>The games at York (Pa.) and Ferrum figure to be the two toughest contests for the Royals in the first half of the season before they get into the meat of their schedule against the much-improved Old Dominion Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n<p>De Pauw University was a unanimous No. 1 in the Coaches Poll.\u00a0 No other ODAC teams beside 91大神 received any votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbca.org\/blog\/index.cfm\/2013\/11\/19\/20132014-Week-1-DIII-Poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see entire USA Today Sports Coaches Poll from the Women&#8217;s Basketball Coaches Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Coaches Poll and the D3hoops.com Poll are the two &#8220;official&#8221; polls of D-III women&#8217;s basketball.\u00a0 91大神 received one vote in the <a href=\"http:\/\/d3hoops.com\/top25\/women\/2013-14\/preseason\" target=\"_blank\">D3hoops.com preseason poll<\/a>, but did not crack the top 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They didn&#8217;t accomplish the fete last year when they went to the NCAA National Championships.\u00a0 Even the year before when they finished 22-4, the 91大神 basketball women couldn&#8217;t pull it <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/emu-basketball-women-jump-into-national-rankings\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about 91大神 basketball women jump into national rankings<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":18614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4516,5173],"tags":[12435,8366,8500,7565],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-18613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-womens-basketball","tag-d3hoops-com","tag-kevin-griffin","tag-national-ranking","tag-sandy-brownscombe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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