2018 NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll — No. 6 (Final)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – SCAD Savannah (Ga.) finishes the season is the No. 1 spot for the sixth-poll in-a-row in the NAIA Women’s Golf Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Thursday. The Bees garnered a unanimous 18 first-place votes and 498 total points.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000, excluding 2006 polls)
• SCAD Savannah owns the No. 1 ranking for the 17th time in program history
• The Bees continued their excellent season by winning The Sun Conference tournament by seven strokes.
• Oklahoma City is the only new team to enter the Top 10 of the poll. Oklahoma City rejoins the Top 10 for the first poll since Sept. 29, 2017.
• There are no new teams to enter into the Top 25 for the final poll of the regular season.
• Since 2006, William Woods (Mo.) and SCAD Savannah hold the active record for consecutive Top 25 appearances with 74-straight polls.
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
• Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league.- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 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 in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
• For the complete Top 25 calendar, click here.
2018 NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll - No. 6 (Final)
| RANK |
WEEK |
SCHOOL [1st Place Votes] |
FINAL POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
SCAD Savannah (Ga.) [18] |
498 |
| 2 |
2 |
Dalton State (Ga.) |
482 |
| 3 |
3 |
British Columbia |
461 |
| 4 |
4 |
USC Beaufort (S.C.) |
454 |
| 5 |
5 |
William Woods (Mo.) |
430 |
| 6 |
5 |
Texas Wesleyan |
414 |
| 7 |
8 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
407 |
| 8 |
7 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
382 |
| 9 |
9 |
Rocky Mountain (Mont.) |
375 |
| 10 |
13 |
Oklahoma City |
352 |
| 11 |
11 |
University of Northwestern Ohio |
329 |
| 12 |
12 |
Keiser (Fla.) |
322 |
| 13 |
10 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
321 |
| 14 |
16 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
280 |
| 15 |
20 |
Faulkner (Ala.) |
268 |
| 16 |
22 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
242 |
| 17 |
15 |
Southeastern (Fla.) |
239 |
| 18 |
14 |
Victoria (B.C.) |
234 |
| 19 |
21 |
Cumberland (Tenn.) |
218 |
| 20 |
19 |
SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) |
206 |
| 21 |
17 |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
181 |
| 22 |
18 |
Loyola (La.) |
165 |
| 23 |
23 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
138 |
| 24 |
25 |
Marian (Ind.) |
131 |
| 25 |
24 |
Brenau (Ga.) |
118 |
|
Others Receiving Votes: Tennessee Wesleyan 81; Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) 67; Bethel (Ind.) 53; Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) 41; Oregon Tech 25; Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 21; Indiana Wesleyan 16; Morningside (Iowa) 9; Briar Cliff (Iowa) 3