KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Oregon Tech leads six Cascade Collegiate Conference ranked in the latest edition of the NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Thursday by the national office.
The Owls made the biggest jump, moving up eight spots from No. 17 to No. 9 to lead the CCC teams. Lewis-Clark State College sits three spots behind OIT at No. 12, while Southern Oregon University (No. 14), College of Idaho (No. 16), and Northwest University (No. 18) aren’t far behind. Eastern Oregon University rounds out the six CCC teams in the top-25 at No. 22.
2021 NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll – 10.6.21
| RANK |
LAST WEEK |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Indiana Wesleyan [13] |
578 |
| 2 |
2 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) [6] |
575 |
| 3 |
8 |
St. Francis (Ill.) [2] |
554 |
| 4 |
6 |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
525 |
| 5 |
3 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
504 |
| 6 |
10 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
493 |
| 7 |
11 |
Oklahoma City |
481 |
| 8 |
4 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
448 |
| 9 |
17 |
Oregon Tech |
435 |
| 10 |
7 |
Huntington (Ind.) |
429 |
| 11 |
12 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
410 |
| 12 |
5 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
393 |
| 13 |
13 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
363 |
| 14 |
9 |
Southern Oregon |
353 |
| 15 |
15 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
325 |
| 16 |
14 |
College of Idaho |
307 |
| 17 |
16 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
293 |
| 18 |
20 |
Northwest (Wash.) |
212 |
| 19 |
NR |
Shawnee State (Ohio) |
211 |
| 20 |
NR |
Michigan-Dearborn |
208 |
| 21 |
19 |
Grace (Ind.) |
204 |
| 22 |
24 |
Eastern Oregon |
193 |
| 23 |
18 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
179 |
| 24 |
21 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
160 |
| 25 |
NR |
Marian (Ind.) |
149 |
Dropped from the Poll: Grand View (Iowa), Goshen (Ind.), Campbellsville (Ky.)
Receiving Votes: Grand View (Iowa) 128, Westmont (Calif.) 114, Goshen (Ind.) 114, William Carey (Miss.) 50, Campbellsville (Ky.) 37, John Brown (Ark.) 17, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 11, St. Ambrose (Iowa) 4, SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 4, William Woods (Mo.) 3, Benedictine (Kan.) 3
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.”