Monmouth Ranked 8th, Iona 23rd in this weeks CollegeInsider.Com's Mid-Major Top 25 Poll

Monmouth Ranked 8th, Iona 23rd in this weeks CollegeInsider.Com's Mid-Major Top 25 Poll

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Monmouth moves up a spot to 8th in this week's CollegeInsider.Com's Mid-Major Top 25 Poll after defeating Memphis 82-79 on the road to push its winning streak to eight games. Je'lon Hornbeak earned MAAC Player of the Week honors for his performace at Memphis, hitting on 6-of-7 from three-point range and hitting two key free throws with 0.7 seconds left to give the Hawks the win. Iona remains at 23rd after defeating NJIT 90-84 on the road behind 27 points from Jordan Washington & 21 points from Jon Severe.

Below is this week's poll.

 

 
Update: December 19th, 2016


    RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS  
1. Gonzaga (31) 11-0 775 1 West Coast
2. UT Arlington 9-3 693 3 Sun Belt
3. Valparaiso 9-2 688 4 Horizon
4. Wichita State 9-3 680 2 Missouri Valley
5. UNCW 10-1 652 5 Colonial
6. Saint Mary's 8-1 635 6 West Coast
7. Fort Wayne 9-3 629 7 Summit
8. Monmouth 9-2 568 9 Metro Atlantic
9. ETSU 9-2 534 11 Southern
10. Oakland 9-1 450 10 Horizon
11. Chattanooga 8-3 445 8 Southern
12. New Mexico State 10-2 355 15 Western Athletic
13. Ohio 7-2 354 13 Mid-American
14. BYU 7-4 317 12 West Coast
15. Illinois State 6-3 298 18 Missouri Valley
16. Loyola (Chicago) 10-2 280 17 Missouri Valley
17. Akron 8-3 263 24 Mid-American
18. Tennessee State 8-2 235 20 Ohio Valley
19. Arkansas State 9-2 210 21 Sun Belt
20. UL Lafayette 9-3 149 19 Sun Belt
21. Charleston 8-3 140 25 Colonial
22. Little Rock 9-2 121 22 Sun Belt
23. Iona 7-3 102 23 Metro Atlantic
24. Northern Kentucky 8-3 89 NR Horizon
25. Sam Houston State 8-3 82 NR Southland


OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Belmont 80, Northern Iowa 67, Florida Gulf Coast 64, Vermont 52, Eastern Michigan 28, Yale 20, Princeton 17, North Dakota State 16, Northeastern 13, Samford 12, Central Michigan 11, Evansville 11, Grand Canyon 11, Lehigh 11, Winthrop 11, Eastern Illinois 10, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 10, CSU Bakersfield 9, San Francisco 9, Stephen F. Austin 9, Elon 8, South Alabama 8, UNC Asheville 6, Utah Valley 5, Eastern Washington 4, Albany 1, UC Irvine 1, UT Martin 1.


VOTING PANEL: Casey Alexander (Lipscomb), Roman Banks (Southern), Randy Bennett (St. Mary's), Will Brown (Albany), Jamion Christian (Mount St. Mary's), Jon Coffman (IPFW), Jim Engles (Columbia), James Fox (Appalachian State), Tyler Geving (Portland State), Derrin Hansen (Nebraska-Omaha), Steve Hawkins (Western Michigan), Jason Hooten (Sam Houston State), Brian Jones (North Dakota), James Jones (Yale), Mike Jones (Radford), Robert Jones (Norfolk State), Greg Kampe (Oakland), Danny Kaspar (Texas State), Tod Kowalczyk (Toledo), Greg Lansing (Indiana State), Jim Les (UC Davis), Dan Majerle (Grand Canyon), Gregg Marshall (Wichita State), Bob Marlin (UL-Lafayette), Ritchie McKay (Liberty), Niko Medved (Furman), Rob O'Driscoll (Drexel), Jimmy Patsos (Siena), G.G. Smith (Loyola), Damon Stoudamire (Pacific), Jay Spoonhour (Eastern Illinois).


* Southern University head coach Roman Banks is the chairman of the Top 25 voting panel for the 2016-17 season. 


NOTE: The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic.


The CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 is now in its 18th season of existence.