GREENWOOD - The Lander women's basketball team, which improved to 16-3 last week, moved to No. 20 this week in the D2SIDA national rankings, which were released late Tuesday.

The Lady Bearcats, who are ranked No. 3 in the Southeast Region, take to the road this week for a pair of Peach Belt Conference games. Lander travels to Francis Marion today for a 5:30 p.m. matchup, then will face North Georgia at 1:30 p.m., Saturday.

Unbeaten Lewis (19-0) received 15 of 16 first place votes and leads the poll with 394 points and is followed by: 2. Emporia State (16-1) 369, 3. Alaska-Anchorage (18-1) 368, 4. Limestone (18-1) 364, 5. Indiana of Pennsylvania (17-1) 317, 6. West Texas A&M (15-2) 308, 7. Fort Hays State (18-1) 290, 8. Rollins (14-2) 284, and 9. Adelphi (17-2) and Columbus State (18-1) 267.

The next 10 are: 11. Michigan Tech (15-1) 230, 12. Stonehill (14-2) 211, 13. Bloomsburg (15-2) 197, 14. Union (15-2) 169, 15. Arkansas Tech (15-2) 169, 16. Colorado Mesa (14-3) 122, 17. Livingstone (18-0) 109, 18. Cal Poly Pomona (12-4) 107, 19. Nova Southeastern (13-4) 94, and 20. Lander (16-3) 85.

Rounding out the poll are: 21. Drury (14-3) 71, 22. Midwestern State (15-3) 64, 23. Pittsburg State (17-3) 63, 24. Humboldt State (15-2) 59, and 25. New Haven 15-3) 57.