Two CCC Teams Keep Receiving Votes in Latest NAIA Women’s Basketball Poll
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Westmont (Calif.) remains at No.1 in the latest 2020-21 NAIA Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll, released by the national office Wednesday. The Warriors have now been at No. 1 for the last four Top 25 polls.
Two Cascade Collegiate Conference teams continued to receive votes in the poll with new full member Lewis-Clark State College and Bushnell University both sitting outside the top-25.
2020-21 NAIA Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top-25 Poll No. 1 (Dec. 16, 2020)
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Westmont (Calif.) [12] |
0-1 |
581 |
| 2 |
2 |
Wayland Baptist (Texas) [3] |
2-0 |
566 |
| 2 |
4 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) [6] |
4-0 |
566 |
| 4 |
5 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
1-0 |
522 |
| 5 |
6 |
Oklahoma City |
0-0 |
488 |
| 6 |
20 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
5-0 |
471 |
| 7 |
9 |
Shawnee State (Ohio) |
8-0 |
470 |
| 8 |
14 |
Thomas More (Ky.) |
6-0 |
461 |
| 9 |
3 |
Marian (Ind.) |
9-4 |
423 |
| 10 |
10 |
Vanguard (Calif.) |
0-0 |
415 |
| 11 |
22 |
Indiana Tech |
9-0 |
405 |
| 12 |
16 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
7-1 |
360 |
| 13 |
13 |
Clarke (Iowa) |
7-1 |
320 |
| 14 |
24 |
Morningside (Iowa) |
7-2 |
319 |
| 15 |
12 |
College of the Ozarks (Mo.) |
0-0 |
312 |
| 16 |
7 |
Southeastern (Fla.) |
5-2 |
301 |
| 17 |
NR |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
7-2 |
299 |
| 18 |
NR |
Sterling (Kan.) |
15-0 |
288 |
| 19 |
NR |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
8-1 |
271 |
| 20 |
19 |
Talladega (Ala.) |
4-1 |
228 |
| 21 |
23 |
Saint Xavier (Ill.) |
2-0 |
181 |
| 22 |
21 |
Columbia (Mo.) |
2-1 |
176 |
| 23 |
18 |
Lyon (Ark.) |
0-0 |
140 |
| 24 |
14 |
Bethel (Tenn.) |
5-3 |
116 |
| 25 |
NR |
Providence (Mont.) (Mont.) |
0-0 |
105 |
Receiving Votes: Dakota State (S.D.) 101, Indiana Wesleyan 83, Loyola (La.) 73,
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 67, Midland (Neb.) 53, Grand View (Iowa) 43, Bryan (Tenn.) 42, LSU Shreveport (La.) 26, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 26, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) 14, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 11, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 9, Rust (Miss.) 9, Concordia (Mich.) 8, Union (Ky.) 6, Taylor (Ind.) 4,
Bushnell (Ore.) 4, Antelope Valley (Calif.) 3, Cumberlands (Ky.) 3
Dropped from the Top 25: Our Lady of the Lake (Texas), Central Methodist (Mo.), Dordt (Iowa), Concordia (Neb.)
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Association of Independent Institutions and Unaffiliated Groups.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 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 team appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”