The Augustana women's volleyball team held onto the No. 22 spot in this week's Bison/AVCA Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll, the AVCA office announced today.It is the final weekly poll until after the NCAA Division II Championships.
The Vikings (23-10, 15-5 NSIC) remained a solid No. 22 after winning all three matches last week. Augustana outlasted then-No. 23 Wayne State in 5 sets last Tuesday before sweeping Minnesota State Moorhead and Minnesota, Crookston, over the weekend.
Augustana is one of five NSIC schools in the national rankings. Concordia-St. Paul is No. 1, Southwest Minnesota State is No. 7, Minnesota Duluth is No. 15 and Wayne State is No. 24.
The Vikings are the No. 5 seed for this week's NCAA Division II Central Regional Volleyball Championships, scheduled for November 20-22 in St. Paul, Minn. It is the Vikings' sixth-straight regional appearance and 12th appearance in the last 13 years.
The Vikings (23-10) will face No. 4 seed Nebraska-Kearney (31-3) on Thursday at 5 p.m. in one of four opening round matches at the Gangelhoff Center. Other first round matches feature No. 1 seed Concordia-St. Paul (31-1) facing No. 8 seed Regis (19-11); No. 2 seed Southwest Minnesota State (27-5) tackling No. 7 seed Metro State (18-9); and No. 3 seed Minnesota Duluth (24-8) squaring off against No. 6 seed Wayne State (23-9).
The winner of the Central Regional Championship advances to the Division II Elite 8, scheduled for December 4-6.
AVCA Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll #12: November 17, 2008
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Rank
|
School (First-Place Votes)
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Total Points
|
2008 Record
|
Last Week
|
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1
|
Concordia-St. Paul (36)
|
900
|
30-1
|
1
|
|
2
|
Cal State San Bernardino
|
857
|
24-3
|
2
|
|
3
|
Grand Valley State
|
804
|
27-3
|
4
|
|
4
|
West Texas A&M
|
779
|
33-4
|
3
|
|
5
|
Emporia State
|
745
|
32-3
|
6
|
|
6
|
Tampa
|
714
|
26-4
|
7
|
|
7
|
Southwest Minnesota State
|
681
|
27-5
|
8
|
|
8
|
Truman
|
634
|
29-7
|
9
|
|
9
|
Nebraska-Kearney
|
608
|
31-3
|
5
|
|
10
|
Washburn
|
592
|
30-5
|
10
|
|
11
|
Pittsburg State
|
498
|
28-7
|
12
|
|
T-12
|
Central Missouri
|
464
|
28-9
|
14
|
|
T-12
|
UC San Diego
|
464
|
21-6
|
11
|
|
14
|
Florida Southern
|
433
|
25-8
|
13
|
|
15
|
Minnesota Duluth
|
391
|
24-8
|
17
|
|
16
|
West Florida
|
360
|
23-6
|
15
|
|
17
|
California (Pa.)
|
343
|
38-1
|
16
|
|
18
|
Cal Poly Pomona
|
263
|
18-7
|
21
|
|
19
|
Western Washington
|
247
|
21-3
|
18
|
|
20
|
Western Oregon
|
230
|
22-2
|
20
|
|
21
|
Cal State L.A.
|
187
|
20-7
|
19
|
|
22
|
Augustana (S.D.)
|
149
|
23-10
|
22
|
|
23
|
Lewis
|
112
|
32-7
|
25
|
|
24
|
Wayne State (Neb.)
|
79
|
23-9
|
23
|
|
25
|
Sonoma State
|
52
|
18-6
|
NR
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