Western men cracks Top 25 in the D3hoops.com latest poll

official release from Pat Coleman - D3hoops.com

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (Jan. 10) --Whitworth moved into the Top 10, while Western Connecticut, WPI and Illinois Wesleyan joined the poll in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25 ranking of NCAA Division III men's basketball teams.
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Through games of Sunday, Jan. 8:

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Middlebury (23)	12-0	623	1
2	Virginia Wesleyan (1)	11-1	584	2
3	MIT (1)	14-0	563	4
4	Emory	12-0	546	5
5	Amherst	12-1	527	6
6	Augustana	11-2	460	3
7	Franklin and Marshall	13-0	450	8
8	Mary Hardin-Baylor	12-0	434	9
9	UW-Whitewater	13-1	420	10
10	Whitworth	11-2	368	11
11	Hope	12-1	363	12
12	Williams	12-2	354	7
13	Cabrini	11-1	296	14
14	Wabash	12-1	271	17
15	UW-Stevens Point	11-3	249	13
16	Wooster	11-2	239	15
17	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	12-0	201	19
18	Puget Sound	11-2	167	16
19	Birmingham-Southern	12-1	150	22
20	Rhode Island College	11-1	141	24
21	Buffalo State	10-2	110	21
22	Oswego State	9-2	102	20
23	Western Connecticut	12-1	86	--
24	WPI	11-2	61	--
25	Illinois Wesleyan	11-2	56	--

Dropped out: No. 18 St. Thomas, No. 23 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 25 Transylvania.
Others receiving votes: St. Thomas 51; Wittenberg 28; William Paterson 26; Ohio Wesleyan 19; Hardin-Simmons 19; Bethany 19; Wheaton (Ill.) 18; St. Mary's (Md.) 17; Grinnell 17; Washington U. 14; Rochester 13; Marietta 10; John Carroll 10; Eastern Connecticut 8; Transylvania 7; Lake Forest 7; Hartwick 5; Farmingdale State 5; Christopher Newport 5; New Jersey City 3; Hampden-Sydney 2; Randolph-Macon 1.

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.