KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Lewis-Clark State College 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.
2021 NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll – 9.23.21
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
7 |
Indiana Wesleyan [13] |
581 |
| 2 |
4 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) [6] |
563 |
| 3 |
1 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
550 |
| 4 |
5 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
526 |
| 5 |
6 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) [1] |
524 |
| 6 |
3 |
Milligan (Tenn.) [1] |
498 |
| 7 |
2 |
Huntington (Ind.) |
487 |
| 8 |
8 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
453 |
| 9 |
15 |
Southern Oregon |
414 |
| 10 |
14 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
412 |
| 11 |
10 |
Oklahoma City |
410 |
| 12 |
9 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
384 |
| 13 |
13 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
369 |
| 14 |
16 |
College of Idaho |
340 |
| 15 |
18 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
314 |
| 16 |
17 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
297 |
| 17 |
11 |
Oregon Tech |
294 |
| 18 |
23 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
280 |
| 19 |
NR |
Grace (Ind.) |
240 |
| 20 |
19 |
Northwest (Wash.) |
239 |
| 21 |
22 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
208 |
| 22 |
20 |
Goshen (Ind.) |
186 |
| 23 |
NR |
Campbellsville (Ky.) |
167 |
| 24 |
NR |
Eastern Oregon |
132 |
| 25 |
25 |
Grand View (Iowa) |
108 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Shawnee State (Ohio), Doane (Neb.), Columbia (Mo.)
Receiving Votes: Michigan-Dearborn 75; William Carey (Miss.) 73; Montana Tech 72; Wayland Baptist (Texas) 55; Westmont (Calif.) 34; Marian (Ind.) 33; William Woods (Mo.) 26; Benedictine (Kan.) 19; Friends (Kan.) 16; Northwestern (Iowa) 16; Shawnee State (Ohio); Missouri Baptist 6; UC Merced (Calif.) 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.”