The UW-Platteville's men's basketball team, which moved up one spot to fifth in the D3hoops.com national poll, plays to host seventh-ranked UW-Whitewater Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Bo Ryan Court.
Both rivals enter the games with 14-2 records, including 6-1 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. (Both teams' lone league loss came to fourth-ranked UW-Stevens Point in overtime.)
The Pioneers bring in the WIAC's top defensive club, allowing 61.4 points per game. The Warhawks are the top offense, averaging 82.3 ppg and reaching at least 90 points in each of their last four games.
UW-Platteville has made this game its Orange Out Night, and encourages all fans to wear their orange to this highly-anticipated contest.
The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. The full poll, through games of Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008:
Week 7 men's poll
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | Wheaton (Ill.) (18) | 15-0 | 618 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Thomas (5) | 14-0 | 602 | 2 |
| 3 | Washington U. (2) | 13-1 | 578 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Stevens Point | 13-2 | 540 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Platteville | 14-2 | 483 | 6 |
| 6 | Buena Vista | 14-1 | 478 | 5 |
| 7 | UW-Whitewater | 14-2 | 461 | 7 |
| 8 | Capital | 14-1 | 444 | 8 |
| 9 | Amherst | 13-1 | 436 | 9 |
| 10 | Trinity (Texas) | 14-1 | 372 | 10 |
| 11 | Puget Sound | 13-2 | 339 | 12 |
| 12 | Ithaca | 14-1 | 305 | 13 |
| 13 | Richard Stockton | 15-2 | 292 | 14 |
| 14 | Mass-Dartmouth | 13-1 | 277 | 15 |
| 15 | Augustana | 12-4 | 264 | 11 |
| 16 | Elms | 13-1 | 260 | 16 |
| 17 | St. Norbert | 12-1 | 240 | 17 |
| 18 | Carnegie Mellon | 11-2 | 178 | 19 |
| 19 | Elmhurst | 11-4 | 162 | 20 |
| 20 | Texas-Dallas | 14-1 | 147 | 22 |
| 21 | Roanoke | 14-2 | 135 | 18 |
| 22 | Gettysburg | 11-2 | 92 | — |
| 23 | William Paterson | 12-2 | 78 | 25 |
| 24 | Franklin and Marshall | 13-1 | 65 | 21 |
| 25 | Middlebury | 14-2 | 51 | — |
Dropped out: No. 23 Anderson, No. 24 Whitworth.
Others receiving votes: Whitworth 50, Anderson 37, St. John Fisher 35, Salem State 25, Randolph-Macon 21, Centre 20, Carroll 10, DePauw 7, Worcester Polytech 7, St. Mary's (Md.) 5, Carthage 4, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 2, Rochester 2, Chapman 1.