By Ashley Birchmeier

The Ohio Northern women's basketball team moved up six spots to No. 16 in the fifth weekly D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll.

Thomas More (Ky.) continues to hold the No. 1 spot receiving all 25 first place votes and 625 points, followed by Amherst (Mass.) in second with 593 points and George Fox (Ore.) in third with 571 points.

Ohio Ahtletic Conference foe Capital also broke into the top 25, landing at No. 23 with 100 points.

Northern returns to action Wednesday evening as they welcome Wilmington to the ONU Sports Center, tip off set for 7:30 pm.

D3hoops.com Poll - Week 5

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Rank School              1st Place Votes           Record                Points       Week

1. Thomas More (Ky.)   (25)                             12-0                      625           1
2. Amherst (Mass.) 12-0 593 2
3. George Fox (Ore.) 13-0 571 3
4. New York University 11-0 542 4
5. Hope (Mich.) 13-0 540 5
6. Texas-Tyler 13-1 455 7
7. Scranton (Pa.) 15-0 441 8
8. UW-Whitewater 12-1 412 6
9. Muhlenberg (Pa.) 10-0 401 10
10. Rochester (N.Y.) 11-1 365 12
11. Washington University 10-2 353 11
12. Tufts (Mass.) 11-2 328 14
13. Wartburg (Ill.) 12-1 279 16
14. UW-Stevens Point 11-2 226 24
15.  Wheaton (Ill.) 10-3 222 17
16. Ohio Northern                                            11-2                      211           21
17. Trinity (Texas) 11-2 197 20
18. Calvin (Mich.) 10-3 191 19
19. St. Thomas 10-3 174 9
20. UW-Oshkosh 10-3 150 13
21.  Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) 12-0 138 25
22. Williams (Pa.) 11-2 106 18
23. Capital 11-2 100 —
24. Whitman 11-1 95 —
25.
Albright (Pa.) 12-2 75 15