STERLING, Va. -- UW-Platteville moved up five spots to 17th in the D3hoops.com poll after a week in which the Pioneers beat then-number 20 UW-Oshkosh 71-55 and won at UW-River Falls 71-60.
The Pioneers are 15-4 overall and tied with UW-Whitewater atop the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with 9-2 records. The Warhawks are ranked fourth nationally, while UW-Stevens Point is 11th and UW-Oshkosh 24th.
Amherst returned to the No. 1 for the first time since the poll taken through games of Dec. 2, 2007.
Week 10 men's poll
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | Amherst (18) | 18-2 | 615 | 2 |
| 2 | Mass-Dartmouth (7) | 19-0 | 597 | 5 |
| 3 | Rochester | 16-2 | 533 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 16-3 | 510 | 8 |
| 5 | Centre | 18-1 | 460 | 11 |
| 6 | Hope | 15-3 | 454 | 4 |
| 7 | Augustana | 15-4 | 441 | 10 |
| 8 | Capital | 16-3 | 424 | 6 |
| 9 | Washington U. | 14-4 | 417 | 1 |
| 10 | Brandeis | 14-4 | 409 | 9 |
| 11 | UW-Stevens Point | 15-4 | 370 | 12 |
| 12 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 15-3 | 319 | 15 |
| 13 | Puget Sound | 15-3 | 293 | 7 |
| 14 | Plattsburgh State | 17-2 | 287 | 16 |
| 15 | Wooster | 16-3 | 265 | 18 |
| 16 | Guilford | 14-4 | 261 | 23 |
| 17 | UW-Platteville | 15-4 | 233 | 22 |
| 18 | Virginia Wesleyan | 15-4 | 181 | 14 |
| 19 | St. Thomas | 16-3 | 180 | 25 |
| 20 | Occidental | 17-2 | 157 | — |
| 21 | Ursinus | 17-2 | 126 | — |
| 22 | Stevens | 17-3 | 92 | 17 |
| 23 | Lawrence | 14-2 | 82 | 19 |
| 24 | UW-Oshkosh | 14-6 | 71 | 20 |
| 25 | Elmhurst | 14-5 | 47 | 21 |
Dropped out: No. 13 Williams, No. 24 Wheaton (Ill.)
Others receiving votes: Williams 42, Randolph-Macon 37, DePauw 35, Millsaps 34, Maryville (Tenn.) 30, Wheaton (Ill.) 23, Cal Lutheran 17, Middlebury 17, Whitworth 12, DeSales 11, Roanoke 11, William Paterson 11, Bowdoin 7, Richard Stockton 5, Chicago 4, Aurora 1, Carnegie Mellon 1, Gustavus Adolphus 1.