2019-20 NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Poll No. 1
Dec 04, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Campbellsville (Ky.) moves up to No. 1 in the 2019-20 NAIA DI Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 Poll.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000):
- Campbellsville is off to an 11-0 start in 2019. The tigers most recently have captured wins over then-ranked No. 14 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) and then-ranked No. 8 Westmont (Calif.)
- New to the Top 25: No. 12 Lewis Clark State (Idaho), No. 14 Montana State-Northern
- Only one team remained at the same rank: No. 15 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
- Vanguard (Calif.) and Westmont moved into the Top 5 this week.
- Oklahoma City holds the longest active streak in the Top 25 with 255 total appearances dating back to the 1997-98 school year.
- Union (Tenn.) and Vanguard (Calif.) are the only programs to have spent an entire season ranked No. 1 (Union: 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11) (Vanguard: 2005-06, 2006-07).
- Union (Tenn.) leads all NAIA schools with 59 No. 1 rankings. Oklahoma City is second with 50 and Vanguard (Calif.) is third with 45.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Association of Independent Institutions and Unaffiliated Groups.
- 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 low ratings) 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 team appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
2019-20 NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 2 | Campbellsville (Ky.) [8] | 11-0 | 219 |
| 2 | 3 | Oklahoma City [1] | 8-0 | 210 |
| 3 | 4 | The Master's (Calif.) | 7-0 | 207 |
| 4 | 10 | Vanguard (Calif.) | 3-1 | 191 |
| 5 | 8 | Westmont (Calif.) | 5-2 | 188 |
| 6 | 5 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 6-2 | 185 |
| 7 | 11 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 9-1 | 179 |
| 8 | 12 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 7-1 | 171 |
| 9 | 13 | Talladega (Ala.) | 10-2 | 167 |
| 10 | 1 | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) | 4-3 | 157 |
| 11 | 16 | Bethel (Tenn.) | 7-3 | 139 |
| 12 | NR | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 5-1 | 130 |
| 13 | 9 | Columbia (Mo.) | 6-2 | 124 |
| 14 | NR | Montana State-Northern | 7-0 | 123 |
| 15 | 15 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 8-1 | 122 |
| 16 | 6 | Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) | 3-4 | 112 |
| 17 | 24 | Loyola (La.) | 6-1 | 107 |
| 18 | 14 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | 4-2 | 105 |
| 19 | 17 | Providence (Mont.) (Mont.) | 6-1 | 89 |
| 20 | 21 | Thomas More (Ky.) | 6-0 | 84 |
| 21 | 19 | Clarke (Iowa) | 7-1 | 80 |
| 21 | 20 | Lyon (Ark.) | 5-1 | 80 |
| 23 | 7 | Carroll (Mont.) | 6-3 | 73 |
| 24 | 22 | Menlo (Calif.) | 4-2 | 50 |
| 25 | 18 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 5-1 | 48 |
Receiving Votes: Evangel (Mo.) 30, Montana Western 27, Martin Methodist (Tenn.) 26, Science & Arts of Oklahoma 14, Benedictine (Kan.) 12, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 11, LSU Shreveport (La.) 10, Philander Smith (Ark.) 9, LSU Alexandria (La.) 8, Faulkner (Ala.) 3, Pikeville (Ky.) 3
