2021 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches Top 25 Poll - Final
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - St. Francis (Ill.) remains at the No. 1 spot in the latest edition of the 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 | St. Francis (Ill.) [20] | 591 |
| 2 | 2 | Saint Mary (Kan.) | 571 |
| 3 | 4 | Milligan (Tenn.) [1] | 546 |
| 4 | 5 | Taylor (Ind.) | 539 |
| 5 | 3 | Indiana Wesleyan | 502 |
| 6 | NR | Oklahoma City | 496 |
| 7 | 7 | The Master's (Calif.) | 489 |
| 8 | 9 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 446 |
| 9 | 10 | Huntington (Ind.) | 432 |
| 10 | 14 | College of Idaho | 423 |
| 11 | 11 | Cornerstone (Mich.) | 407 |
| 12 | NR | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 376 |
| 13 | 13 | Dordt (Iowa) | 373 |
| 14 | 15 | Oregon Tech | 328 |
| 15 | 16 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 320 |
| 16 | 18 | Grand View (Iowa) | 307 |
| 17 | 8 | Southern Oregon | 291 |
| 18 | 17 | Montreat (N.C.) | 288 |
| 19 | 21 | Westmont (Calif.) | 248 |
| 20 | 22 | Grace (Ind.) | 210 |
| 21 | 20 | Eastern Oregon | 209 |
| 22 | 19 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 203 |
| 23 | 23 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 189 |
| 24 | 25 | Marian (Ind.) | 145 |
| 25 | 24 | Northwest (Wash.) | 121 |
Dropped from the Poll: None
Receiving Votes: Goshen (Ind.) 113, William Carey (Miss.) 91, Carroll (Mont.) 77, Michigan Dearborn 64, Campbellsville (Ky.) 25, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 12, Indiana Tech 10, Benedictine (Kan.) 10
