Men�s Basketball Back on Top of National Rankings

     The UW-Stevens Point men�s basketball team is again the top-ranked team in the NCAA Division III national rankings by D3hoops.com after one week in the No. 2 spot.

     The Pointers, who are 13-1 overall, received all 25 first place votes and took over for Wooster (Ohio), which suffered its first loss of the season to Wittenberg (Ohio) on Saturday. UW-Stevens Point posted a 77-42 win over UW-Superior in its most recent outing and was the No. 1 team for the first six weeks of the season.

     The Pointers host 25th-ranked UW-Oshkosh tonight at 7 p.m. at the Quandt Fieldhouse.

Lunneborg and Pettis Named Conference Athletes of the Week

     For the fourth time in five weeks UW-Stevens Point landed the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association women�s hockey Player of the Week as Kim Lunneborg earned the honor following the Pointers� sweep of Lake Forest last week. Pointers� diver Chad Pettis was also honored as the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men�s diving Athlete of the Week.

     Lunneborg, a junior forward from Richfield, Minn., was involved in five of the team�s six goals in the Pointers� sweep. She had a goal and two assists in Sunday�s 3-0 win and also posted a goal and an assist in Friday�s 3-1 victory. Four different UW-Stevens Point players have now earned the NCHA honor over the past five weeks.

     Pettis, a junior from Eau Claire Memorial High School, won both the one-meter and three-meter events at Sunday�s UW-Oshkosh Invitational. He easily claimed the three-meter crown, scoring 394.75 points to finish more than 71 points ahead of the second-place diver. In the one-meter event, Pettis totaled 384.15 points.