MINNEAPOLIS - The UW-Stevens Point men's basketball team finishes the 2008-09 season ranked No. 4 by D3hoops.com.
The Pointers finished the season with a 24-5 record and fell to the third-ranked team in this season's final poll, St. Thomas, in the second round of the 2009 NCAA Division III tournament by three, 53-50. The Pointers secured the program's 25
th Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) title and the program's fifth postseason tournament title this season under fourth year head coach
Bob Semling.
St. Thomas lost in the eventual national champion and top-ranked Washington University in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament. Wheaton (Ill.) who fell to the Bears in the Sweet 16 ranks second in the final poll while national runner-up Richard Stockton comes in fifth.
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.
Top 25
# Team W-L Pts. Last Week
1 Washington U. (25) 29-2 625 2
2 Wheaton (Ill.) 26-4 580 3
3 St. Thomas 30-1 563 1
4 UW-Stevens Point 24-5 538 4
5 Richard Stockton 30-3 507 6
6 UW-Platteville 24-6 480 5
7 UW-Whitewater 23-6 475 8
8 Guilford 26-6 468 23
9 Puget Sound 25-4 407 7
10 John Carroll 25-5 360 10
11 Franklin and Marshall 25-7 353 —
12 Texas-Dallas 26-5 350 22
13 Capital 26-5 296 13
14 Elmhurst 20-8 238 19
15 DeSales 25-6 216 —
16 Middlebury 24-4 211 9
17 Ithaca 24-3 200 12
18 Lawrence 19-7 190 20
19 Mass-Dartmouth 27-4 156 16
20 Buena Vista 23-3 119 14
21 Trinity (Texas) 23-5 102 17
22 Elms 26-2 95 11
23 Farmingdale State 27-4 93 —
24 Whitworth 24-6 91 21
25 Salem State 22-7 74 —
Dropped out: No. 15 Centre, 18 Rhode Island College, No. 24 Transylvania, No. 25 Amherst
Others receiving votes: Centre 70, Transylvania 56, Carnegie Mellon 52, Rhode Island College 31, St. Lawrence 22, Bridgewater State 21, Averett 18, Wooster 15, Augustana 10, Worcester Polytech 8, Brandeis 7, Randolph-Macon 6, Widener 6, Chapman 4, Gwynedd-Mercy 4, MIT 4, Hope 3, Amherst 1.
