LSUS to Begin 2026 as Unanimous No. 1 in GoRout NAIA Baseball Coaches' Top 25 Poll
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Coming off of the first undefeated season in the history of college baseball, LSU Shreveport (La.) is the unanimous No. 1-ranked team in the 2025-26 GoRout NAIA Baseball Coaches' Top 25 Poll.
Southeastern (Fla.), the second-to-last team standing in the 2025 Avista NAIA World Series, is No. 3, trailing No. 2 Georgia Gwinnett by a nine-point margin. Nine of the qualifiers from the 2025 Avista NAIA World Series are represented in the top 10, as No. 9 Taylor (Ind.) was the only top-10 team that didn't make last season's series.
The preseason poll is the only fall edition of the Top 25, with the first regular-season poll scheduled for Wednesday, March 4.
| RANK | INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | 2025 RECORD | POINTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
LSU Shreveport (La.) [19] | 59-0 | 450 |
| 2 | 
|
Georgia Gwinnett | 56-7 | 427 |
| 3 | 
|
Southeastern (Fla.) | 47-15 | 418 |
| 4 | 
|
Hope International (Calif.) | 48-10 | 402 |
| 5 | 
|
Tennessee Wesleyan | 48-14 | 397 |
| 6 | 
|
Cumberlands (Ky.) | 50-12 | 371 |
| 7 | 
|
Loyola (La.) | 42-18 | 357 |
| 8 | 
|
Webber International (Fla.) | 44-15 | 347 |
| 9 | 
|
Taylor (Ind.) | 47-11 | 319 |
| 10 | 
|
British Columbia | 39-19 | 298 |
| 11 | 
|
William Carey (Miss.) | 38-14 | 275 |
| 12 | 
|
Oklahoma Wesleyan | 47-11 | 266 |
| 12 | 
|
Missouri Baptist | 42-11 | 266 |
| 14 | 
|
Reinhardt (Ga.) | 43-13 | 246 |
| 15 | 
|
Arizona Christian | 40-16-1 | 220 |
| 16 | 
|
Concordia (Neb.) | 41-13 | 197 |
| 17 | 
|
Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 42-19 | 161 |
| 18 | 
|
Johnson (Tenn.) | 36-18 | 153 |
| 19 | 
|
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) | 41-17 | 151 |
| 20 | 
|
Texas A&M - Victoria | 38-17 | 142 |
| 21 | 
|
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 36-16 | 141 |
| 22 | 
|
Bellevue (Neb.) | 40-15 | 137 |
| 23 | 
|
Columbia (Mo.) | 43-11 | 119 |
| 24 | 
|
Keiser (Fla.) | 37-17 | 112 |
| 25 | 
|
Central Methodist (Mo.) | 35-15 | 100 |
Receiving Votes: Faulkner (Ala.) 46, Kansas Wesleyan 43, Grand View (Iowa) 41, St. Thomas (Fla.) 40, IU Southeast (Ind.) 39, Abraham Baldwin (Ga.) 30, USAO (Okla.) 18, Cumberland (Tenn.) 16, Oakland City (Ind.) 15, Ottawa (Kan.) 12.
Poll Methodology
- The national poll is for publicity purposes only and does not influence the selection process for national championship consideration.
- A panel of head coaches representing each conference and the Continental Athletic Conference (Independents) votes in the poll.
- The Top 25 teams are selected using a points-based system:
- 30 points for a 1st-place vote, 29 for 2nd, 28 for 3rd, and so on.
- The highest and lowest rankings received by each team are discarded before final tallying.
- Teams receiving only one point are not listed as “receiving votes.”
- For the Preseason Poll, there is no "previous ranking" column since it is the initial poll and differs from the prior rating system.
