2023-24 NAIA Baseball Coaches’ Top 25 - No. 1 (March 13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The first regular season NAIA Baseball Coaches' Top 25 sees consistency at the top with Southeastern (Fla.) outpacing No. 2 Georgia Gwinnett for the top spot in the country. The Fire receive 18 of the 20 first-place votes, with the Grizzlies receiving the other two. Behind those two, the rest of the top 25 had had dramatic fluctuations since the last rating in November with nine new teams joining the ratings. Jessup (Calif.) and Faulkner (Ala.) leap from not receiving votes in Preseason Poll to being inside the Top 10.
Rating Methodology
- The rating was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
- Teams that receive only one point on the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
- For the complete Top 25 calendar, click here.
| RANK | LAST WEEK | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Southeastern (Fla.) [18] | 19-2 | 559 |
| 2 | 2 | Georgia Gwinnett [2] | 21-3 | 543 |
| 3 | 5 | LSU Shreveport (La.) | 19-2 | 521 |
| 4 | 12 | Webber International (Fla.) | 21-3 | 504 |
| 5 | 8 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 20-4 | 492 |
| 6 | 22 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 18-4 | 446 |
| 7 | 3 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 10-6 | 440 |
| 8 | RV | Doane (Neb.) | 14-4 | 433 |
| 9 | NR | Jessup (Calif.) | 20-4 | 425 |
| 10 | NR | Faulkner (Ala.) | 18-6 | 387 |
| 11 | 23 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 15-9 | 336 |
| 12 | NR | Keiser (Fla.) | 18-4 | 330 |
| 13 | RV | Concordia (Neb.) | 16-5 | 321 |
| 14 | 10 | Missouri Baptist | 14-7 | 313 |
| 15 | RV | Loyola (La.) | 16-6 | 284 |
| 15 | 7 | Bellevue (Neb.) | 11-9 | 284 |
| 17 | NR | Oklahoma Wesleyan | 16-8 | 266 |
| 18 | 25 | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) | 19-6 | 241 |
| 19 | NR | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 19-7 | 235 |
| 20 | 11 | Hope International (Calif.) | 13-9 | 227 |
| 21 | 9 | Taylor (Ind.) | 13-9 | 190 |
| 22 | 6 | Tennessee Wesleyan | 13-9 | 158 |
| 23 | RV | British Columbia | 15-8 | 118 |
| 24 | 13 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | 14-7 | 117 |
| 25 | 19 | Benedictine Mesa (Ariz.) | 16-6 | 111 |
Dropped from Top 25: Ave Maria (Fla.); Concordia (Mich.); Indiana Wesleyan; Kansas Wesleyan; Mobile (Ala.); Point Park (Pa.); Texas Wesleyan; Vanguard (Calif.); William Carey (Miss.)
Receiving Votes: Milligan (Tenn.) 86; Friends (Kan.) 86; Texas Wesleyan 83; William Carey (Miss.) 57; Science & Arts (Okla.) 50; Louisiana Christian 39; Vanguard (Calif.) 25; Tabor (Kan.) 24; Kansas Wesleyan 21; Oklahoma City 19; Arizona Christian 19; Point (Ga.) 19; Mount Marty (S.D.) 17; Ave Maria (Fla.) 13; Point Park (Pa.) 10; Oregon Tech 7; Concordia (Mich.) 7; Cumberland (Tenn.) 6; The Master's (Calif.) 6; Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 5; Columbia (Mo.) 4; Thomas (Ga.) 4; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 3; Indiana Wesleyan 3
