2020-21 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll - No. 4
Mar 18, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Huntington (Ind.) remains at No. 1 in the latest edition of the 2020-21 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
- Each conference is represented by one rater.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter 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 in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Huntington (Ind.) [10] | 519 |
| 2 | 2 | Saint Mary (Kan.) [5] | 512 |
| 3 | 3 | Taylor (Ind.) | 487 |
| 4 | 4 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 465 |
| 5 | 12 | Oklahoma City [4] | 460 |
| 6 | 5 | Cornerstone (Mich.) | 445 |
| 7 | 7 | Dordt (Iowa) | 420 |
| 8 | 16 | College of Idaho | 414 |
| 9 | 8 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 380 |
| 10 | 9 | Indiana Wesleyan | 371 |
| 11 | 6 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 368 |
| 12 | 10 | The Master's (Calif.) | 360 |
| 13 | 11 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 347 |
| 14 | 13 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 308 |
| 15 | 14 | Montreat (N.C.) | 287 |
| 16 | 15 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 263 |
| 17 | 20 | Oregon Tech | 246 |
| 18 | 18 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 237 |
| 19 | 19 | Baker (Kan.) | 228 |
| 20 | NR | Northwest (Wash.) | 190 |
| 21 | 23 | Spring Arbor (Mich.) | 169 |
| 22 | 17 | William Carey (Miss.) | 168 |
| 23 | 21 | Carroll (Mont.) | 156 |
| 24 | 22 | Doane (Neb.) | 137 |
| 25 | 24 | Columbia (Mo.) | 126 |
Dropped from the poll: Westmont (Calif.)
Receiving Votes: Westmont (Calif.) 110, Grace (Ind.) 79, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 62, Aquinas (Mich.) 51, Montana State-Northern 32, Goshen (Ind.) 29, Loyola (La.) 27, Dakota State (S.D.) 26, Friends (Kan.) 5, Michigan-Dearborn 3
