Men's Basketball | 3/12/2019 6:18:00 PM

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Despite being upset in the championship game of the Mountain East Conference Tournament on Sunday, the West Liberty University men's team received a Top 10 spot in the final NCAA Division II coaches' poll for the 13^th time in the last 14 seasons on Tuesday.
    Coach Ben Howlett's two-time defending Mountain East Conference champion Hilltoppers (26-4) checked in at No. 9 when the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) released this year's final weekly NCAA Division II Top 25.
    It's the 137^th Top 10 ranking in school history for the Black and Gold, who have been ranked in every NCAA Division II Top 25 poll since Feb. 2, 2010. That run of 144 consecutive Top 25 appearances is an NCAA Division II record.
    West Liberty earned its 10^th consecutive NCAA Division II Tournament bid and will be the No. 2 seed on Saturday when the 2019 NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Tournament gets under way at the Kovalchick Center on the campus of Indiana (Pa.) University.
    The Hilltoppers will take on defending champion and No. 7 seed East Stroudsburg (Pa.) in Saturday's 2:30 p.m. quarterfinal.
       Team (FPV)                                                      Rec           Pts        Pvs
  1. NW Missouri State (16)                           32-0          400             1
  2. Indiana (Pa.)                                                29-2          384             2
  3. West Texas A&M                                       31-3          367             4
  4. St. Edward's (Texas)                                 28-3          340             9
  5. Nova Southeastern (Fla.)                        26-3          325             3
  6. Point Loma (Calif.)                                     26-4          306          10
  7. Bellarmine (Ky.)                                          26-4          299          11
  8. Findlay (Ohio)                                             27-4          278             6
  9. WEST LIBERTY                                            26-4          273             5
10. Queens (N.C.)                                             28-4          266             7
11. Virginia State                                              27-4          246          13
12. Davenport (Mich.)                                    27-4          219             8
13. Southern Nazarene (Okla.)                    28-5          202          17
14. Colorado School of Mines                     25-5          186          12
15. Lewis (Ill.)                                                     24-5          158          15
16. Augusta (Ga.)                                              26-5          146          24
17. USC-Aiken                                                    26-5          127          16
18. Saint Martin's (Wash.)                            24-5          108          14
19. Northern State (S.D.)                               26-6             98          25
20. Saint Anselm (N.H.)                                  22-5             92          23
21. Valdosta State (Ga.)                                 24-6             82          18
22. Daemen (N.Y.)                                            24-5             55          19
23. Seattle Pacific (Wash.)                            21-6             48         NR
24. Catawba (N.C.)                                           24-7             43         NR
25. Florida Southern                                        24-7             32         NR
        Others receiving votes: Lynn (Fla.) 29, UC San Diego 26, Ashland (Ohio) 23, Cal Poly-Pomona 14, Morehouse (Ga.) 10, Walsh (Ohio) 6, Alabama Huntsville 5, Belmont Abbey (N.C.) 3, Francis Marion (S.C.) 2, Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.) 1, West Alabama 1.