Women's Basketball News
Centre women picked to finish in tie for ninth in SCAC
Following a disappointing 6-16 season in 2006-07, the Centre College women's basketball team has been selected to finish in a tie for ninth place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) preseason poll as voted on by the league's sports information directors.
The Colonels, who just missed qualifying for the conference tournament last year, received 28 points, tied Sewanee-University of the South for the ninth spot. The Tigers were also 3-11 in the league last year, but won the tie breaker to qualify over Centre for the conference tournament.
DePauw University returns this season as the defending national champions and league champions were chosen again to finish first. The Tigers received 120 points and 10 of the 11 first place votes. Oglethorpe was selected second with 105 points and Trinity University received the other first place vote and 102 points to placed third.
Rhodes College was picked fourth (83), followed by Austin College in fifth (73), Hendrix College in sixth (67), Southwestern University in seventh (59), Colorado College in eighth (44) and Millsaps College in 11th (17).
Birmingham-Southern, in the first year of its four-year provisional transition from Division I to Division III will not count in the league standings.
Centre returns everyone from last year's team and will look to three guards to lead the team in 2007-08. Sophomore Chelsea Goodman (Harrodsburg, Ky.) was a Third Team All-SCAC selection last year and led the team in scoring at 14.0 points per game.
Fellow sophomore guard Chrystal Claunch (Harrodsburg, Ky.) and junior guard Alison Denbow (Louisville, Ky.) will also be counted on this season. Claunch was second on the team in scoring and steals and led the team in assists, while Denbow was the only player on the roster a year ago to start every game.
The Colonels will open the 2007-08 season by hosting the Country Hearth Inn/Lee's Famous Recipe Classic, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16-17. Centre will play Spalding University Friday at 7 p.m. followed by a game against Greenville College Saturday at 3 p.m. in Danville, Ky. |
