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GNAC in NCAA Top 25 Statistical Rankings WOU is ranked seventh in this week’s D2SIDA West Region poll. Team Scoring Offense Scoring Margin Field Goal PCT. Three-Pointers Free Throw PCT. Rebound Margin Assists Assists Assist/TO Ratio Blocked Shots Blocked Shots Steals Turnover Margin Off. Rebounds Off. Rebounds The Falcons host Alaska Anchorage (8-7, 4-1) in one of three games on Thursday’s GNAC schedule. A UAA win would move the Seawolves into a tie for first place with Western Oregon in the GNAC standings. Elsewhere Thursday Alaska plays at MSU Billings and Simon Fraser visits Northwest Nazarene. The D2SIDA poll is unofficial. The NCAA will conduct its own official regional poll beginning in February which will determine which five teams join the GNAC, CCAA and PacWest champions in the playoffs in March. D2SIDA West Regional Poll – 1. Azusa Pacific (14-1); 2. Cal Baptist (13-1); 3. Cal Poly Pomona (10-3) and Point Loma (11-2); 5. BYUHawaii (11-2); 6. Seattle Pacific (12-4); 7. Western Oregon (13-3); 8. Cal State Stanislaus (9-4); 9. Dixie State (9-5); 10. UC San Diego (7-5). Seattle Pacific Ranks Second In Rebounding Seattle Pacific had two dominating rebounding performances in splitting a pair of games last week outrebounding Simon Fraser 53-17 and Western Washington 44-29. Riley Stockton had 20 rebounds, including 14 against the Vikings, to move into 11th place on the GNAC all-time rebounding list with 631. Institution Simon Fraser Seattle Pacific Seattle Pacific Simon Fraser Western Oregon Seattle Pacific Simon Fraser Alaska Anchorage Alaska Anchorage Western Washington Central Washington Simon Fraser Simon Fraser Simon Fraser W estern Washington Rank 1st 7th 5th 1st 17th 2nd 5th 11th 18th 3rd 14th 1st 1st 7th 18th Avg 119.4 19.1 52.6 14.8 76.0 13.7 21.1 19.1 1.46 6.5 5.0 15.4 11.0 16.3 14.7 Individual Scoring Field Goal PCT. 3-Pointers Free Throw PCT. Free Throw PCT. Assists Assists Blocked Shots Blocked Shots Steals Assist/TO Assist/TO Assist/TO The highest ranked GNAC team in the poll is Seattle Pacific (12-4, 4-2), which is ranked sixth. Player Sango Niang, SFU Kalidou Diouf, UAA Travis Thompson, UAA Julian Nichols, WOU Joey Roppo, CWU Sango Niang, SFU Brian McGill, UAA Anye Turner, WWU Joseph Stroud, CWU Sango Niang, SFU Riley Stockton, SPU Julian Nichols, WOU Sango Niang, SFU Rank 12th 11th 21st 25th 25th 4th 15th 5th 8th 20th 10th 15th 20th Avg 22.9 65.9 3.14 88.9 88.9 7.5 6.1 3.40 2.67 2.62 3.27 3.12 3.06 NABC and D2SIDA Nationals Polls NABC Pre-Season Nov. 25 Dec. 2 Dec. 9 Dec. 16 Dec. 30 Jan. 6 Jan. 13 SPU ranks second nationally in rebounding outboarding its opponents by 13.7 per contest. SPU also ranks fifth in field goal percentage (52.6) and seveneth in scoring margin (19.1). Simon Fraser maintained its season-long national lead in four categories including scoring (119.4), three-pointers (14.8), steals (15.4) and turnover margin (11.0). The Clan also ranks fifth in assists (21.1) and seventh in offensive rebounds (16.3). SPU 22nd NR (49th) NR (40th) --NR (40th) NR (41st) NR (27th) NR (39th) WWU 11th NR (27th) NR (32nd) ----------- WOU ---- ----NR (43rd) NR (37th) NR (34th) NR (36th) NR (33rd) D2SIDA Regional Polls In individual stats, SFU’s Sango Niang ranks fourth in assists (7.5). Anye Turner of Western Washington and Joseph Stroud of Central Washington are fifth (3.40) and eighth (2.67), respectively, in blocked shots and Stockton is 10th in assist/turnover ratio (3.27). Nov. 17 Nov. 24 Dec. 1 Dec. 8 Dec. 15 Dec. 29 Jan. 5 Jan. 12 2 CWU 8th SPU WOU 6th 6th 9th 8th 9th 5th 6th 4th 4th 4th 6th 7th WWU 2nd 5th-T 5th