NAPERVILLE — Carthage is ranked eighth and Illinois Wesleyan is 16th in preseason national rankings released by D3hoops.com on Wednesday.
The Firebirds were 21-7 last season and won the outright College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) title, their first since 2010. Carthage, which was a recipient of an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament last season, received 396 points in the preseason poll.
IWU, which won the CCIW Tournament crown last season, posted a 24-6 mark last season. The Titans had 227 points in the new poll after last season’s run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
Trinity (Conn.) is the preseason D3hoops.com #1 after securing 23 of 25 first-place votes. Randolph-Macon is second, followed by Emory, Tufts and WashU.
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), Carroll University (Waukesha, Wis.), Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.), Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Ill.), Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.), North Central College (Naperville, Ill.), North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).