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January 18, 2011

USC Aiken Moves Up One Spot to 17th in Latest National Poll

USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll (Week Nine)

LILBURN, Ga. – The University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team continued its acension in the national poll this week, moving up to 17th in the latest USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll. 

USC Aiken is one of three Peach Belt Conference teams ranked in the top 25 with Lander ranked No. 1 overall and Clayton State currently ranked third.

USC Aiken has won 11 of its last 12 outings with its only loss coming in a narrow 66-60 defeat to No. 3 Clayton State on national television at the Convocation Center on Saturday, Jan. 15.

Overall, the Pacers are 16-3. USC Aiken is 8-1 in the Peach Belt Conference.

USC Aiken will have its second consecutive top 20 Saturday showdown this weekend as they will next travel to Greenwood, S.C. to tangle with national No. 1 Lander. Tip-off in the contest is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 22.

USC Aiken has now been ranked in the last four USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll of the 2010-11 regular season.

The Pacers had been ranked 25th in the final poll of the 2010 calendar year. They were ranked in a tie for 22nd in the first poll of the 2011 portion of the 2010-11 season. USC Aiken was ranked 18th in last week’s poll.

The ranking of 25th in the Dec. 14 poll was the first for the USC Aiken women's basketball team since the Feb. 3, 2009 poll. The Pacers were ranked in the first ten polls of the 2008-09 season, reaching as high as a program-best seventh in the Dec. 2, 2008 poll.

USC Aiken has been in the top 25 for at least one week in three of the last four seasons.

Prior to being ranked in the 2007-08 preseason poll, USC Aiken had last appeared in a national poll on Dec. 12, 2002 when they were 20th. The Pacers dropped out the following week, ending a string of 16 straight polls appeared in at the time dating back to 2001.