Women's Basketball: WVU No. 8 in Coaches' Poll
March 09, 2010 05:49 PM | General
March 9, 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University’s women’s basketball team (28-4, 13-3) rose one spot to No. 8 in the latest ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll, released today, receiving 528 points. WVU was ranked No. 9 in the Associated Press poll yesterday.
WVU is one of five BIG EAST teams ranked in this week’s Coaches’ Poll Top 25 as it joins No. 1 Connecticut, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 13 Georgetown and No. 17 St. John’s in the rankings.
West Virginia takes on No. 1/1 Connecticut (32-0, 16-0) in tonight’s BIG EAST Championship game at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. The contest will tip at 7 p.m. and will be shown nationally on ESPN.
The game will also be broadcast on MSN-affiliated radio stations with play-by-play announcer Travis Jones and color analyst Jay Jacobs on the call.
Live stats will be available at www.bigeast.org.
