Women's Basketball | 10/25/23 | 12:12 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has released the 2023-24 Preseason NAIA Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Rating. The Carroll College Women's Basketball team appears at No. 6 in the national poll.
The Fighting Saints (2022-23: 26-7, 14-1) will begin the season rated as the No. 6 team in the nation.
The 2022-23 Frontier Conference regular season and tournament champions were recently picked to repeat as league champions in the Frontier Conference Coaches' Poll, and are the highest of four Frontier Schools appearing on the list.
The Saints lead the Frontier teams at No. 6, followed by Rocky Mountain at No. 15, Providence at No. 24, and Montana Western appearing in the "receiving votes" portion of the poll.
Carroll finished the 2022-23 season at No. 11 in the national poll, and saw their season come to an end in the round of 16 at the NAIA Women's Basketball Championship.
The No. 6 rating is the second-highest given to the Saints in the NAIA Preseason poll in program history. Last season, the Saints began at No. 4 in the nation.
The Carroll Women will begin their season on Friday night at the Carroll College PE Center in what will be a top-10 matchup, as the Saints host current No. 4 team, Indiana Wesleyan, at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the season opening tilt between two of the top six rated teams in the nation are available HERE.
Visit www.carrollathletics.com for a preview of the Women's Basketball season later this week, as well as to stay up to date with everything going on in Carroll Athletics.
Rating Methodology
- The rating was rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents)/unaffiliated groups.
- The Coaches' 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 on the ballot are not considered "receiving votes"
- For the complete women's basketball ratings calendar, CLICK HERE.
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
2 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) [15] |
31-3 |
526 |
| 2 |
1 |
Central Methodist (Mo.) [3] |
35-1 |
500 |
| 3 |
4 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
30-4 |
498 |
| 4 |
5 |
Indiana Wesleyan [1] |
30-4 |
486 |
| 5 |
8 |
Marian (Ind.) |
29-6 |
457 |
| 6 |
11 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
26-7 |
429 |
| 7 |
7 |
Clarke (Iowa) |
33-4 |
417 |
| 8 |
24 |
Dakota State (S.D.) |
29-7 |
413 |
| 9 |
12 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
30-4 |
378 |
| 10 |
14 |
Vanguard (Calif.) |
23-7 |
372 |
| 11 |
10 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
30-4 |
367 |
| 12 |
18 |
Briar Cliff (Iowa) |
26-8 |
334 |
| 13 |
21 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
24-8 |
316 |
| 14 |
9 |
Loyola (La.) |
27-3 |
280 |
| 15 |
RV |
Rocky Mountain (Mont.) |
20-11 |
279 |
| 16 |
12 |
Eastern Oregon |
30-3 |
255 |
| 17 |
NR |
Concordia (Neb.) |
20-12 |
234 |
| 18 |
NR |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
21-8 |
216 |
| 19 |
22 |
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) |
23-7 |
203 |
| 20 |
16 |
Indiana Tech |
27-6 |
172 |
| 20 |
RV |
Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) |
24-10 |
172 |
| 22 |
NR |
Mayville State (N.D.) |
24-6 |
153 |
| 23 |
RV |
Rust (Miss.) |
23-6 |
152 |
| 24 |
NR |
Providence (Mont.) |
16-14 |
142 |
| 25 |
25 |
Science & Arts (Okla.) |
23-7 |
125 |
Receiving Votes: College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 71, Indiana South Bend (Ind.) 70, Southern Oregon 64, Montana Western 52, Georgetown (Ky.) 47, Bryan (Tenn.) 41, Jamestown (N.D.) 26, Menlo (Calif.) 24, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 23, Pikeville (Ky.) 21, Grace (Ind.) 20, Columbia (Mo.) 10, Grand View (Iowa) 9, Faulkner (Ala.) 7, Indiana Northwest 5, John Brown (Ark.) 3, Philander Smith (Ark.) 3, Oakland City (Ind.) 3
