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BLOOMINGTON, Ill.- The Illinois Wesleyan University women's basketball team moved up a spot to No. 16 in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25 poll, announced Monday, Jan 12. The Titans accrued 251 points and are one of two College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin schools in the top-25, as Carroll sits in the No. 20 spot.

The Green and White enter the week at 10-4 overall and 5-0 inside the CCIW. The Titans won their lone CCIW bout of the week handling North Park University, 77-39, Saturday Jan. 10. Illinois Wesleyan was led by freshman standout Caitlin Leyden (Park Ridge, Ill.-Maine South) who tallied 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field. Leyden added four rebounds and a pair of blocks.

New York University (617 points, 18 first-place votes) topped the rankings as the top-five teams remained steady in the latest poll. Scranton claimed second with six first-place votes and 603 points, while UW-Oshkosh (570), Smith (536), and Johns Hopkins (533) rounded out the top-five. 

The Titans cap off their three game homestand Wednesday, Jan. 14 as they welcome Millikin University to the Shirk Center with tip off set for 7 p.m.
 

D3hoops.com women's Top 25, 2025-26 Week 6

#	School (No. 1 votes)	W-L	Pts.	Prev.
1	New York University (18)	12-0	617	1
2	Scranton (6)	13-0	603	2
3	UW-Oshkosh (1)	14-0	570	3
4	Smith	12-0	536	4
5	Johns Hopkins	13-0	533	5
6	Washington and Lee	13-0	481	6
7	UW-Whitewater	12-2	435	8
8	Bowdoin	11-1	402	10
9	Emory	11-1	395	9
10	John Carroll	12-1	374	11
11	Hope	12-2	355	7
12	Ohio Wesleyan	12-1	351	12
13	Washington U.	10-2	346	14
14	Bates	13-1	329	13
15	Denison	14-0	265	16
16	Illinois Wesleyan	10-4	251	17
17	Baldwin Wallace	12-2	194	20
18	Chicago	8-3	184	15
19	UW-Platteville	13-1	149	--
20	Carroll	10-4	140	21
21	Bethel	9-4	116	22
22	Shenandoah	11-2	62	23
23	Cortland	10-2	51	--
24	Ripon	13-2	50	--
25	Christopher Newport	14-3	47	--

Dropped out: No. 18 Trinity (Conn.); No. 19 Amherst; No. 24 UW-Eau Claire; No. 25 Concordia-Moorhead
Others receiving votes: Trinity (Conn.) 43; Amherst 33; Concordia-Moorhead 31; Trine 29; McDaniel 25; Coe 22; UW-Eau Claire 20; Southern Maine 18; Cal Lutheran 12; Saint Mary's (Minn.) 12; Wisconsin Lutheran 9; William Paterson 7; Bridgewater 6; Elizabethtown 4; Hardin-Simmons 4; Springfield 3; Susquehanna 3; Calvin 2; Wartburg 2; Centre 1; Gustavus Adolphus 1; Messiah 1; Redlands 1

The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.