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November 5, 2007 SIUE's Volleyball Moves Into Top 10 EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville volleyball moved up to No. 10, topping their previous best ever ranking of No. 12, in this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll. SIUE finished the regular season with a 11-winning streak. The Cougars face Drury in the quarterfinals of the Great Lakes Valle Conference Tournament Friday at 2:30 pm. Minnesota-Duluth and Tanpa flip-flopped the No. 1 and No. 2 postitions with Minnesota-Duluth receiving 32 first-place votes. Tampa, grabbed the remaining four votes. Other GLVC teams making the top 25 are Indianapolis at No. 19 and Northern Kentucky at No. 25, Below is the AVCA/NCAA Division II Top 25. RankSchool (First-Place Votes) Total Points 2007 Record Last Week 1 Minnesota Duluth (32) 896 26-1 2 2 Tampa (4) 836 25-2 1 3 Concordia-St. Paul 827 29-3 3 4 Cal State San Bernardino 814 23-2 5 5 Truman 728 31-5 7 6 Washburn 715 33-2 4 7 Grand Valley State 671 27-3 8 8 Central Missouri 653 30-5 6 9 Southwest Minnesota State 610 24-6 10 10 SIU Edwardsville 540 25-5 12 11 Hillsdale 512 24-6 13 12 Ashland 470 24-4 9 13 West Texas A&M 452 29-7 14 14 Florida Southern 443 23-8 11 15 Emporia State 382 25-7 17 16 Minnesota State 370 18-8 15 17 Augustana (S.D.) 325 17-10 16 18 Pittsburg State 306 26-7 18 19 Indianapolis 273 30-2 20 20 UC San Diego 251 17-7 19 21 Nebraska-Kearney 183 28-4 21 22 Cal Poly Pomona 128 19-6 24 23 Lewis 85 27-3 NR 24 West Florida 76 29-4 25 25 Northern Kentucky 64 26-7 23 Others Receiving Votes and listed on two or more ballots: Western Washington 40; Chico State 16; California (Pa.) 11; Nebraska-Omaha 11; Cal State L.A. 7; Nova Southeastern 2. Two schools were listed on only one ballot for a total of 3 points. Dropped out: Chico State (22) |