LILBURN, Ga. – The University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team moved back into the top 20 this week to 18^th in the latest USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll.

The Pacers were ranked 17^th in the preseason USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll. In the first regular season poll of the 2011-12 on Nov. 22, USC Aiken checked in at No. 23. The Pacers were ranked 21^st on Nov. 29.

USC Aiken (5-1) is one of two Peach Belt Conference teams ranked in the top 25. Clayton State is the highest ranked PBC school at No. 6.

The Pacers enter their next game having won their last four outings. In their only game last week, USC Aiken easily dispatched of Limestone, 92-68, on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Convocation Center.

USC Aiken has been in the Top-25 for at least one week in four of the last five seasons.

The Pacers were ranked as high as eighth nationally and finished the year ranked a program-best 13th in the final poll of the 2010-11 season. The Pacers would close the year by being ranked in the final 12 polls of the 2011-12 season.

USC Aiken has now been ranked in 16 straight USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll.

The Pacers are spending the majority of this week focusing on exams. USC Aiken will next open Peach Belt Conference play against Flagler at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10. 

USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll (12/06) - Click Link to Access