Macon takes over top spot

For the first time since the last regular season poll in 2003, Randolph-Macon is No. 1 in the D3hoops.com Top 25.

The Yellow Jackets, who improved to 11-0 on Monday night with a 74-53 win at Bridgewater, received 12 of the 25 first-place votes, one of three teams to get votes for the top spot. Randolph-Macon edged out UW-Stevens Point, which received nine first-place votes and finished 10 points behind.

Defending national champion Washington University, which lost to Transylvania last week, kept four of its previously held 25 No. 1 votes and finished in the No. 3 spot. The full Top 25.

&&g-boxl&&With the 2010 portion of the season beginning and about 40 percent of the games already played, Gordon Mann took a look at the Division III basketball landscape and had a few questions: Will Williams return to prominence? Can Amherst win the national title -- the women's national title? Who is the best team in the East Region?

Those questions, and even more, along with answers in the Daily Dose.

Elsewhere on Monday night, DeSales ran the old Valparaiso Bryce Drew play to perfection for a buzzer beater in the first overtime and went on to beat Widener in the second extra frame 92-87. WFMZ Channel 69's footage of the buzzer beater leads off our Buzzer Beater page.

Kevin Misevicius shot 13-for-25 from the floor and a perfect 16-for-16 from the foul line en route to 45 points in Cabrini's 93-85 win against Keystone. Monday's men's scores.

In Monday's women's action, No. 17 Messiah survived an upset bid at Cal Lutheran, holding on for a 66-62 win despite missing four consecutive free throws late. St. Norbert hit two buckets in the final nine seconds to rally past Beloit 68-65. The Green Knights dropped out of the rankings this week. Monday's women's scores.