The Butler women's basketball team moved back into the top 10 in the latest NJCAA Division I Coaches' Poll released on Jan. 22.
The Grizzlies are won of four Jayhawk Conference teams in the poll, with Hutchinson at No. 3 and Seward at No. 10 representing the Jayhawk West and Butler and No. 21 Cowley representing the Jayhawk East.
The Grizzlies (19-1, 2-0) moved up five spots in the poll after blasting then No. 19 Cowley 82-58 at home and throttling unranked Coffeyville 84-49 on the road last week, an average winning margin of 29.5 points per game.
Butler has won 17 games in a row, just three shy of the program's best winning streak (20 straight wins in 2002). The Grizzlies have a chance to win their 20th game of the season tonight when they host Allen County at 5:30 p.m. That is followed by another home game on Saturday, Jan. 25 against Labette with tipoff at 2 p.m. for that contest.
| NJCAA Top 25 National Poll | January 22, 2014 | |||||
| Rank | College | Record | Points | 1st place votes |
Previous Rank |
| 1. | Trinity Valley, Texas |
18-1 | 200 | 8 |
1 |
| 2. | Walters State, Tenn. |
20-0 | 192 | 0 |
2 |
| 3. | Hutchinson |
17-0 |
184 | 0 | 3 |
| 4. | Chipola, Fla. |
20-1 |
176 | 0 | 4 |
| 5. | Shelton State, Ala. |
17-1 |
168 | 0 | 6 |
| 6. | Central Arizona |
18-2 |
160 | 0 | 7 |
| 7. | Salt Lake, Utah |
17-4 |
152 | 0 | 10 |
| 8. | College of Southern Idaho |
20-2 |
144 | 0 | 11 |
| 9. | Butler |
19-1 |
136 | 0 | 14 |
| 10. | Seward County | 17-2 |
128 | 0 | 9 |
| 11. | Northwest Florida State |
15-3 |
120 | 0 | 13 |
| 12. | Northeastern Oklahoma A&M |
15-2 |
112 |
0 | 15 |
| 13. | Palm Beach State, Fla. | 17-3 |
104 | 0 | 16 |
| 14. | Florida State-Jacksonville |
15-5 |
96 | 0 | 17 |
| 15. | Collin County, Texas |
15-4 |
88 | 0 | 12 |
| 16. | South Georgia Technical |
17-3 |
80 | 0 | 25 |
| 17. | Blinn, Texas |
15-3 |
72 |
0 | NR |
| 18. | Iowa Western |
18-1 |
64 |
0 | RV |
| 19. | Wabash Valley, Ill. |
13-3 |
56 |
0 | RV |
| 20. | Vincennes, Ind. | 12-4 |
48 | 0 | 18 |
| 21. | Cowley County | 13-5 |
40 | 0 | 19 |
| 22. | North Idaho |
17-5 |
32 | 0 | 21 |
| 23. | LSU-Eunice |
18-1 |
24 | 0 | RV |
| 24. | Monroe, N.Y. |
17-3 |
16 | 0 | RV |
| 25. | Hill College, Texas |
14-3 |
8 | 0 | 24 |
