WILLIAMSTOWN, MA -- Mike Maker’s Williams men’s basketball team (7-0) celebrated its climb into the top twenty in the D3hoops.com national poll by dispatching the Framingham State Rams last night 88-50.
Maker’s high scoring Eph quintet is averaging 94 points a game with four players in double figures. Senior captain Blake Schultz leads with an average of 23 points a game, followed by sophomore James Wang (16.9), junior Troy Whitttington (12.4) and junior Harlan Dodson (11.0).
The Ephs have connected on 53% of their field
goal attempts while holding opponents to 40 %.
Williams has made exactly twice as many free throws as the
opposition (69) and the Ephs have made more shots from the charity
stripe than their opponents have attempted (138 to 115). From
beyond the arc Williams is hitting on 70 of 161 (44%) and the Ephs
have converted 138 of 185 free throw attempts ( 75%).
Williams is getting after it on the glass too holding a rebound margin of 12.8. The Ephs also boast a scoring margin of 24 (94 to 70).
Maker’s Ephs will next see action on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM when they host Springfield College in their final contest before first semester final exams.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The D3hoops.com Top 25 for Division III men's basketball, through games of Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009:
# Team W-L Pts. Last Week
1 Washington U. (25) 5-0 625 1
2 John Carroll 6-0 586 2
3 St. Thomas 5-0 582 3
4 UW-Stevens Point 7-0 550 5
5 UW-Whitewater 7-0 514 7
6 Randolph-Macon 6-0 490 9
7 Guilford 4-1 448 4
8 Wheaton (Ill.) 5-1 374 6
9 Middlebury 7-0 359 15
10 Mass-Dartmouth 5-1 349 11
11 Texas-Dallas 6-1 324 14
12 Chapman 7-0 319 18
13 Richard Stockton 5-2 254 8
14 St. Mary's (Md.) 5-1 251 12
15 Augustana 5-0 228 21
16 Franklin and Marshall 5-2 218 10
17 Amherst 4-1 185 13
18 Brandeis 7-1 181 23
19 St. Norbert 6-0 154 —
20 Williams 6-0 120 —
21 DeSales 5-2 113 24
22 Mississippi College 5-0 107 —
23 Wooster 4-3 92 25
24 Carthage 6-2 91 17
25 Virginia Wesleyan 7-1 90 —
Dropped out: No. 16 Illinois Wesleyan, No. 19 Bridgewater State, No. 20 Elms, No. 22 Wittenberg.
Others receiving votes: Elms 87, MIT 86, Hope 76, UW-Platteville 57, Eastern Mennonite 45, Chicago 42, Illinois Wesleyan 37, Cabrini 18, Wittenberg 14, Wilmington 12, Worcester Polytech 12, Anderson 9, Whittier 7, Rochester 5, DePauw 3, Illinois College 3, Manchester 2, Albright 1, Maryville (Tenn.) 3, New Jersey City 1, Scranton 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.
