INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Emory & Henry College Women's Basketball Team holds the number five spot in the first NCAA Division III South Region Rankings of the 2017-18 season, NCAA officials announced Wednesday. E&H is one of three Old Dominion Athletic Conference programs ranked in the top nine regionally.

Emory & Henry (16-5, 9-3 ODAC) has won its last five games and seven of its last nine and is poised to earn a bye to the Quarterfinals of the ODAC Tournament for the fourth year in a row. It is the sixth time in the past three seasons that the Wasps have been ranked regionally by the NCAA.

The University of Texas-Dallas (18-3) holds the top spot in the region while league foe Lynchburg College and Piedmont College make up the top three. The other ODAC team in the rankings is Randolph-Macon College (sixth).

Emory & Henry visits Guilford College in a key league matchup on Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. The Wasps defeated the Quakers on Wednesday, January 10 by an 83-69 score.

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NCAA Division III Women's Basketball
South Region Rankings 

1.  Texas-Dallas                                    
2.  Lynchburg *
3.  Piedmont
4.  Mary Hardin-Baylor
5.  Emory & Henry *
6.  Randolph-Macon *
7.  Austin
8.  Trinity (Texas)
9.  East Texas Baptist

* denotes Old Dominion Athletic Conference school