WAYNE, N.J. – William Paterson improved four spots, climbing to 14th in the Jan. 24 D3hoops.com Men's Basketball Top 25 Poll.

The Pioneers are 16-2 overall and 7-1 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), and will visit Rowan Saturday, Jan. 28, at 3:00 p.m.

D3hoops.com Men's Top 25, Week 8
Through games of Sunday, Jan. 22:
# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Middlebury (24) 16-0 623 1
2 UW-Whitewater (1) 17-1 595 5
3 Hope 16-1 549 7
4 Emory 15-1 514 8
5 Virginia Wesleyan 13-2 511 2
6 MIT 16-1 488 3
7 Amherst 15-2 482 4
8 Cabrini 16-1 446 10
9 Franklin and Marshall 16-1 409 13
10 Mary Hardin-Baylor 16-1 403 6
11 Whitworth 14-3 339 9
12 Birmingham-Southern 16-1 323 14
13 Williams 15-3 296 15
14 William Paterson 16-2 256 18
15 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 15-1 247 12
16 UW-Stevens Point 14-4 222 11
17 New York University 14-1 192 23
18 Eastern Connecticut 14-1 155 25
19 Wooster 14-3 147 24
20 Augustana 13-4 136 19
21 Illinois Wesleyan 14-3 128 17
22 Wheaton (Ill.) 14-3 123 22
23 Wabash 14-3 115 16
24 Rhode Island College 14-2 76 --
25 Transylvania 15-2 68 --

Dropped out: No. 20 St. Thomas, No. 21 Wittenberg.

Others receiving votes: Lake Forest 49; WPI 48; Oswego State 40; Wittenberg 36; Randolph-Macon 20; St. Thomas 19; Bethany 16; St. Joseph's (L.I.) 9; Christopher Newport 8; UW-River Falls 7; Washington U. 7; Albertus Magnus 4; Lycoming 4; St. Mary's (Md.) 4; Wesleyan 4; Western Connecticut 4; DePauw 1; Grinnell 1; Hampden-Sydney 1.