BALTIMORE, MD – After starting the season 8-1 with their lone loss coming against top-ranked NYU, the Johns Hopkins women's basketball team was ranked No. 23 in the latest D3Hoops poll released Monday night. This marks the first time the Blue Jays have been ranked since the 2011-2012 season, and is the program's highest ranking since they were No. 22 the week of January 4, 2011.
 
Hopkins' offense has looked renewed under first-year head coach Rodney Rogan to start the 2023-24 season, averaging 66.1 points per game — the highest average since the 2016-17 season — with the Blue Jays claiming six of their eight victories by double digits, including three by at least 20 points. Hopkins has done this via a balanced attack, with three players averaging double figures in Elisabeth Peebles (13.4), Greta Miller (11.2) and Michaela O'Neil (10.3), which would mark the first time since the 2017-18 season that the Jays have had three players average over ten points per contest.
 
Amid the program's current seven-game winning streak is a 6-0 start to Centennial Conference play, Hopkins' best since the 2013-14 season in which they started 10-0. The streak includes double-digit wins over McDaniel, Bryn Mawr, Muhlenberg and Franklin & Marshall, as well as a nine-point victory over Dickinson and the program's second win over reigning Centennial Conference Champion Gettysburg in the last six years.
 
Unsurprisingly the Blue Jays rank as one of the best teams in the conference statistically, sitting in first in points (66.1) and rebounds (45.3) and turnover margin (+5.89), the middle and latter of which rank 46^th and 35^th in the nation respectively. Peebles continues to serve as one of the better offensive options in the country, ranking 50^th in 3-pointers made (22) and 77^th in 3-point percentage (40%) through nine games, with her 22 threes also leading the Centennial.
 
Hopkins will be put to the test in their next matchup when they take on the 11^th-ranked University of Chicago in what will be their second game against a ranked opponent this season — they previously beat Marymount and Gettysburg which were both receiving votes. Tip-off from the Music City Classic is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT.