Women's Basketball | 11/30/22 | 10:22 AM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the latest edition of its 2022-23 NAIA Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll. Carroll College remains at No. 9.
Carroll (4-3) remains unchanged for the previous version of the bi-weekly coaches' poll, with a 74-35 win over NCAA Division III Willamette being their lone countable game in the time frame.
The Fighting Saints will begin Frontier Conference play tomorrow night, as they host the only other Frontier school on the poll, No. 21 Montana Western at the PE Center in Helena at 5 p.m.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Independents 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 |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Thomas More (Ky.) [21] |
8-0 |
591 |
| 2 |
2 |
Westmont (Calif.) |
7-0 |
572 |
| 3 |
3 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) |
5-0 |
542 |
| 4 |
6 |
Central Methodist (Mo.) |
6-0 |
539 |
| 5 |
13 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
8-0 |
500 |
| 6 |
5 |
Clarke (Iowa) |
6-1 |
496 |
| 7 |
4 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
7-2 |
483 |
| 8 |
8 |
Marian (Ind.) |
7-1 |
451 |
| 9 |
9 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
4-3 |
439 |
| 10 |
14 |
Loyola (La.) |
7-0 |
420 |
| 11 |
7 |
Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) |
5-1 |
415 |
| 12 |
15 |
Vanguard (Calif.) |
5-0 |
370 |
| 13 |
17 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
4-1 |
362 |
| 14 |
16 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
7-1 |
334 |
| 15 |
21 |
Indiana Tech |
8-2 |
300 |
| 16 |
25 |
Northwestern (Iowa) |
8-0 |
291 |
| 17 |
19 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
6-0 |
271 |
| 18 |
20 |
Southern Oregon |
4-1 |
248 |
| 19 |
10 |
Sterling (Kan.) |
4-3 |
241 |
| 20 |
23 |
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) |
6-0 |
229 |
| 21 |
22 |
Montana Western |
5-1 |
222 |
| 22 |
18 |
Georgetown (Ky.) |
5-3 |
208 |
| 23 |
NR |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
7-1 |
173 |
| 24 |
24 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
6-2 |
136 |
| 25 |
12 |
Morningside (Iowa) |
3-3 |
131 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Wayland Baptist (Texas)
Receiving Votes: Science & Arts (Okla.) 79, IU South Bend (Ind.) 60, Faulkner (Ala.) 36, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 31, Eastern Oregon 30, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 30, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) 26, Dakota State (S.D.) 22, Grace (Ind.) 19, Xavier (La.) 9, Stillman (Ala.) 9, Oakland City (Ind.) 9, Rust (Miss.) 9, Reinhardt (Ga.) 9, St. Thomas (Fla.) 9, Grand View (Iowa) 7, Philander Smith (Ark.) 6, LSU Shreveport (La.) 5, Siena Heights (Mich.) 5, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 5
