KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference continued to see more than half its teams ranked on the latest NAIA 2022 Men’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Thursday by the national office.
Eastern Oregon University leads the pack, moving up seven spots to No. 6, while Lewis-Clark State College also broke into the top-10 at No. 9. Southern Oregon University isn’t far behind at No. 11, while the College of Idaho slipped to No. 16. Northwest University and Oregon Tech round out the six teams at No. 22 and No. 25, respectively.
2022 NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Sept. 22, 2022
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
2 |
Indiana Wesleyan [7] |
548 |
| 2 |
1 |
Milligan (Tenn.) [11] |
540 |
| 3 |
5 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
504 |
| 4 |
3 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
501 |
| 5 |
7 |
The Master's (Calif.) [1] |
493 |
| 6 |
13 |
Eastern Oregon |
481 |
| 7 |
8 |
Oklahoma City [1] |
446 |
| 8 |
11 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
432 |
| 9 |
17 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
417 |
| 10 |
15 |
Grace (Ind.) |
374 |
| 11 |
10 |
Southern Oregon |
353 |
| 12 |
12 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
345 |
| 13 |
22 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
323 |
| 14 |
18 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
319 |
| 14 |
4 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
319 |
| 16 |
6 |
College of Idaho |
307 |
| 17 |
14 |
Grand View (Iowa) |
299 |
| 18 |
NR |
Spring Arbor (Mich.) |
267 |
| 19 |
20 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
220 |
| 20 |
19 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
213 |
| 21 |
15 |
Shawnee State (Ohio) |
209 |
| 22 |
21 |
Northwest (Wash.) |
193 |
| 23 |
9 |
Huntington (Ind.) |
155 |
| 24 |
24 |
Westmont (Calif.) |
135 |
| 25 |
25 |
Oregon Tech |
108 |
Dropped from the Poll: Goshen (Ind.)
Receiving Votes: Benedictine (Kan.) 99, Goshen (Ind.) 97, Concordia (Neb.) 87, Carroll (Mont.) 72, Marian (Ind.) 23, Doane (Neb.) 19, Southwestern (Kan.) 18, Our Lady of the lake (Texas) 16, Montana Tech 15, John Brown (Ark.) 11, Lawrence Tech (Mich.) 5, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 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