KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Huntington lands at No. 1 in the second edition of the Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top-25 Poll, released Thursday by the NAIA office.
Three Cascade Collegiate Conference teams received votes in the latest poll, with two finding spots in the top-25. College of Idaho leads the trio with a No. 16 ranking after beating Eastern Oregon University in a head-to-head race to start the season.
Oregon Tech sits in the No. 22 spot after posting a perfect race score of 15 points at the Bushnell Open to start the season. The Owls won the event with Mark French winning the 6K in a school-record time of 18 minutes, 35.2 seconds.
EOU is receiving votes in the poll, sitting just outside the top-25.
2020 Men's Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – 11/19/20
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
3 |
Huntington (Ind.) [15] |
586 |
| 2 |
2 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) [6] |
564 |
| 3 |
1 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
561 |
| 4 |
4 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
533 |
| 5 |
5 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
511 |
| 6 |
6 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
470 |
| 7 |
18 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
457 |
| 8 |
7 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
447 |
| 9 |
11 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
444 |
| 10 |
9 |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
437 |
| 11 |
8 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
415 |
| 12 |
12 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
336 |
| 13 |
13 |
Rocky Mountain (Mont.) |
335 |
| 14 |
15 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
313 |
| 15 |
20 |
Northwestern (Iowa) |
309 |
| 16 |
NR |
College of Idaho |
298 |
| 17 |
16 |
Baker (Kan.) |
289 |
| 18 |
17 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
264 |
| 19 |
10 |
Doane (Neb.) |
253 |
| 20 |
NR |
Spring Arbor (Mich.) |
237 |
| 21 |
19 |
Columbia (Mo.) |
214 |
| 22 |
NR |
Oregon Tech |
194 |
| 23 |
24 |
Westmont (Calif.) |
157 |
| 24 |
NR |
Grace (Ind.) |
144 |
| 25 |
NR |
Montana State-Northern |
101 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Dakota State (S.D.), Goshen (Ind.), Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), Shawnee State (Ohio), Montana Tech
Receiving Votes: Dakota State (S.D.) 100, Goshen (Ind.) 96, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 94, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 90,
Eastern Oregon 58, Shawnee State (Ohio) 46, Friends (Kan.) 33, Montana Western 25, Indiana Tech 25, Southeastern (Fla.) 16, Montana Tech 7, Grand View (Iowa)
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
- Each conference is represented by one rater.
- 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 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.”