2001-02 Women's Basketball
Lewis-Clark State College
Lewiston, Idaho

LEWISTON, ID-The Lewis-Clark State College Warriors fell out of the latest NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball Top 25 Poll released Tuesday, January 15th, receiving 11 votes. According to the NAIA office, the last Lewis-Clark State was not ranked was prior to the 1996 season.

Lewis-Clark State (12-7, 2-2 Frontier) split a pair of conference games at home last week, losing to then #8 Montana-Western, 77-70, and then rolled to an 84-65 win over Montana Tech. The Warriors will now hit the road for a pair of games, starting on Thursday at Rocky Mountain who was already defeated Montana-Western, earlier this season. Saturday, the Warriors will look to avenge their worst Frontier Conference loss ever, 85-68, in Helena, last year.

Oklahoma City (16-0), the defending National Champions, still are the unanimous top-ranked team. Union University of Tennessee (15-2) holds at #2 and Southern Nazarene University (14-2) also remains at #3. Forth-ranked North Georgia (15-1) continues to move up and Campbellsville University of Kentucky (15-3) moves up one to #5.

Frontier Conference teams that are ranked: #8 Montana-Western (17-3) stays at #8. Montana State-Northern (15-3) drops three spots to #19 after being upset by Great Falls at home, last Saturday. Carroll College received one vote for the Top 25, again.

The next poll will be released January 22nd.

Click here to see the entire women's poll.