By Andrew Korba

The Ohio Northern women's basketball team remained ranked No. 8 in the eighth weekly D3hoops.com poll and moved up one spot to No. 9 in the USA Today Sports Division III Coaches poll.

The Polar Bears received 441 votes in the D3hoops.com poll, which was two more than they received in last weeks poll.

DePauw (Ind.) stayed at the top of the poll with 623 points and 23 of the 25 first place votes, Calvin (Mich) is ranked second with 598 points and the two remaining first place votes and Hope (Mich.) is third with 538 points.

ONU was ranked No. 8 in the previous poll, No. 9 in the sixth poll, was No. 12 in the fifth poll, was No. 15 in the fourth poll, was No. 17 in the third poll, was No. 20 in the second poll and was No. 24 in the first poll.

In the USA Today Sports poll, Northern received 130 points, which was eight more points more than last week.

Depauw (Ind.) remained No. 1 with 200 points followed by Calvin (Mich.), Amherst (Mass.), Tufts (Mass.) and Messiah (Pa.)

Ohio Northern has won 15 games in a row, has an overall record of 16-1 and is in first place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with an 10-0 mark.

The Polar Bears will be in action again on Wednesday when they travel to Wilmington for a 7:30 p.m. contest.

For D3Hoops poll, click here.
For USA Today poll, click here.