2020-21 Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Rankings
Jan 13, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Campbellsville (Ky.) is the new No. 1 in the second edition of the 2020-21 NAIA Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll. The last time the Tigers were at No. 1 was the 2019-20 season.
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.”
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | VOTES |
| 1 | 2 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 7-0 | 577 |
| 2 | 1 | Westmont (Calif.) | 0-1 | 575 |
| 3 | 2 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 3-0 | 563 |
| 4 | 8 | Thomas More (Ky.) | 12-0 | 530 |
| 5 | 5 | Oklahoma City | 0-0 | 505 |
| 6 | 9 | Marian (Ind.) | 11-4 | 465 |
| 7 | 6 | Carroll (Mont.) | 11-2 | 464 |
| 8 | 13 | Clarke (Iowa) | 11-1 | 441 |
| 9 | 7 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 11-2 | 425 |
| 10 | 10 | Vanguard (Calif.) | 0-0 | 409 |
| 11 | 14 | Morningside (Iowa) | 13-2 | 403 |
| 12 | 11 | Indiana Tech | 12-1 | 392 |
| 13 | 12 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 11-2 | 345 |
| 14 | 4 | The Master's (Calif.) | 2-1 | 321 |
| 15 | 18 | Sterling (Kan.) | 17-0 | 319 |
| 16 | 16 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 10-2 | 314 |
| 17 | 19 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 9-1 | 282 |
| 18 | 17 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | 9-2 | 277 |
| 19 | 15 | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) | 0-0 | 257 |
| 20 | 21 | Saint Xavier (Ill.) | 5-0 | 222 |
| 21 | 20 | Talladega (Ala.) | 5-1 | 213 |
| 22 | 23 | Lyon (Ark.) | 2-0 | 182 |
| 23 | NR | Indiana Wesleyan | 11-3 | 156 |
| 24 | NR | Dakota State (S.D.) | 12-3 | 121 |
| 25 | NR | Loyola (La.) | 4-0 | 118 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Columbia (Mo.), Providence (Mont.), Bethel (Tenn.)
Receiving Votes: Lewis-Clark (Idaho) 99, Columbia (Mo.) 84, Grand View (Iowa) 48, Montana Western 40, Providence (Mont.) 40, Rust (Miss.) 37, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 36, LSU Shreveport (La.) 35, Cumberlands (Ky.) 25, Taylor (Ind.) 21, Bryan (Tenn.) 8, Concordia (Neb.) 4, IU South Bend (Ind.) 4, Mobile (Ala.) 4, Bethany (Kan.) 3, Benedictine (Kan.) 3
