The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team is ranked No. 17 in the latest Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Division III power rankings released on Wednesday.

The Polar Bears (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) have an 81.74 rating.

Points for the Endless Pools / CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 are calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.

The Top 25 are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet over a four-week period.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Kenyon is No. 2 and Denison is No. 3.

Ohio Northern was ranked No. 24 in the first poll and returned to the poll this week.

The Polar Bears will open the home portion of their 2012-13 schedule on Friday against OAC foe Wilmington at 6 pm at the ONU Sports Center.