2018-2019 NAIA DII Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll — Final
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Concordia (Neb.) continues to claim the No. 1 spot the latest NAIA DII Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Final Top 25 Poll. The Bulldogs received all 12 first-place votes and 312 total points.
Top 25 Highlights:
- No. 1 Concordia (Neb.) went 3-0 since the previous poll. Including wins over then-No. 15 Hastings (Neb.) and then-No. 4 Dakota Wesleyan (S.D).
- Southeastern (Fla.) and Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) both had positive movement from the previous poll moving up one spot each to No. 2 and No. 3.
- Corban (Ore.) and Saint Francis (Ind.) both joined the top 25 poll this week at No. 23 and No. 24
- Three of the top four schools come from the Great Plains Athletic Conference
- Kansas Wesleyan and Saint Xavier (Ill.) both fell out of the top 25 rankings.
- Morningside (Iowa), which checks in at No. 19, holds the record for most No. 1 rankings of all-time with 39. Indiana Wesleyan – No. 20 in this poll – is second with 34.
- Morningside also holds the record for longest consecutively ranked active school with 179 straight polls.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and Association of Independent Institutions.
- 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 a 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 teams appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
- Frequency of polls occur bi-weekly. This policy was approved by the National Administrative Council (NAC) for the 2016-17 academic season. This change will allow raters the opportunity to consider a larger body of work in between rating periods.
- For the complete Top 25 calendar, click here.
2018-2019 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Final (Feb. 27, 2019)
| RANK | LAST WEEK | SCHOOL [1st Place Votes] | RECORD | TOTAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Concordia (Neb.) | 30-3 | 312 |
| 2 | 3 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 27-2 | 298 |
| 3 | 4 | Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) | 28-5 | 294 |
| 4 | 2 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 26-4 | 281 |
| 5 | 5 | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) | 29-3 | 274 |
| 6 | 8 | Taylor (Ind.) | 28-4 | 257 |
| 7 | 7 | Indiana Tech | 30-3 | 254 |
| 8 | 6 | Marian (Ind.) | 27-6 | 243 |
| 9 | 9 | Eastern Oregon | 28-3 | 231 |
| 10 | 10 | Tabor (Kan.) | 28-3 | 221 |
| 11 | 11 | Antelope Valley (Calif.) | 25-5 | 210 |
| 12 | 12 | Bryan (Tenn.) | 31-1 | 207 |
| 13 | 15 | Hastings (Neb.) | 19-12 | 187 |
| 14 | 13 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 23-8 | 178 |
| 15 | 15 | Sterling (Kan.) | 27-5 | 175 |
| 16 | 13 | Dordt (Iowa) | 20-11 | 152 |
| 17 | 17 | Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) | 23-9 | 142 |
| 18 | 18 | Indiana Northwest (Ind.) | 26-7 | 119 |
| 19 | 19 | Morningside (Iowa) | 19-12 | 118 |
| 20 | 22 | Indiana Wesleyan | 20-12 | 111 |
| 21 | 23 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 25-8 | 109 |
| 22 | 21 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 26-6 | 107 |
| 23 | NR | Corban (Ore.) | 24-9 | 90 |
| 24 | NR | Saint Francis (Ind.) | 20-12 | 60 |
| 25 | 20 | Oregon Tech | 23-9 | 59 |
Dropped out: Kansas Wesleyan and Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Others receiving votes: Kansas Wesleyan 57; Bellevue (Neb.) 37; Siena Heights (Mich) 34; Saint Xavier (Ill.) 33; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 33; WVU Tech (W.Va.) 32; Mayville State (N.D.) 29; Olivet Nazarene 15; UC Merced 6; Michigan-Dearborn 1
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