MASON CITY – The NIACC women’s basketball team is ranked No. 16 in the NJCAA Division II poll released Tuesday.
NIACC (5-4 overall) was No. 14 in the preseason ratings in late October and ranked No. 9 in last week’s poll.
Kirkwood (9-0) is ranked No. 1 and DMACC (10-2) is ranked No. 10.
It is the seventh straight poll that has included NIACC as the Lady Trojans were ranked in the final four polls of the 2015-16 season.
NIACC returns to action Friday at MCC-Penn Valley in Kansas City. The Lady Trojans play No. 5 Johnson County CC (13-5) on Saturday in Overland Park, Kan.
NJCAA Division II poll
Kirkwood, Pima Owens, Highland (Kan.), Johnson County, Louisburg, Kankakee, North Arkansas, Monroe CC, DMACC, Kansas City (Kansas), Parkland, Cecil, Guilford Tech, Kalamazoo Valley, NIACC, Niagara County, Lake Land, Cape Fear, Sinclair.