KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw one team ranked and another receive votes in the latest NAIA Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Rating, released Wednesday by the national office.
After earning the conference’s regular season title and first automatic qualifier to the NAIA Championship earlier this week, Southern Oregon University moved up three spots to land at No. 22. Warner Pacific University received votes. The CCC Men’s Soccer Tournament
bracket has been finalized with kick off beginning Monday. The next rating will be the final one of the 2023 season.
2023 NAIA Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – No. 9
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) [18] |
14-0-3 |
498 |
| 2 |
3 |
Dalton State (Ga.) |
11-1-3 |
480 |
| 3 |
2 |
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
15-1-1 |
463 |
| 4 |
5 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
11-2-3 |
435 |
| 5 |
4 |
Grace (Ind.) |
13-3-1 |
433 |
| 6 |
6 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
12-1-2 |
409 |
| 7 |
7 |
Mobile (Ala.) |
11-2-2 |
406 |
| 8 |
8 |
Oklahoma Wesleyan |
13-1-3 |
401 |
| 9 |
10 |
Bethel (Ind.) |
13-2-3 |
372 |
| 10 |
9 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
14-3-1 |
359 |
| 11 |
11 |
Bethel (Tenn.) |
12-3-1 |
332 |
| 12 |
12 |
Florida National |
10-1-4 |
312 |
| 13 |
16 |
Keiser (Fla.) |
11-3-4 |
306 |
| 14 |
13 |
Missouri Valley |
10-5-0 |
277 |
| 15 |
19 |
Westcliff (Calif.) |
15-1-0 |
263 |
| 16 |
14 |
Union (Ky.) |
14-1-2 |
237 |
| 17 |
17 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
11-3-4 |
231 |
| 18 |
20 |
Concordia (Neb.) |
13-0-4 |
221 |
| 19 |
18 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
6-2-5 |
220 |
| 20 |
15 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
12-2-4 |
210 |
| 21 |
21 |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
10-3-4 |
184 |
| 22 |
RV |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
13-2-3 |
115 |
| 22 |
25 |
Southern Oregon |
15-2-0 |
115 |
| 24 |
24 |
Columbia (Mo.) |
9-4-4 |
74 |
| 25 |
RV |
Menlo (Calif.) |
9-0-5 |
72 |
Dropped From Top 25: Mount Mercy (Iowa), Tennessee Wesleyan
Receiving Votes: Briar Cliff (Iowa) 60; Williams Baptist (Ark.) 46; Louisiana Christian 39; Tennessee Wesleyan 37; Thomas (Ga.) 35; UC Merced (Calif.) 33; Bellevue (Neb.) 28; Ottawa (Kan.) 20; John Brown (Ark.) 19; Southeastern (Fla.) 19; Benedictine (Kan.) 14; Mount Mercy (Iowa) 13; Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 10; WVU Tech 8; Vanguard (Calif.) 7;
Warner Pacific (Ore.) 5; Xavier (La.) 4; Aquinas (Mich.) 4; Missouri Baptist 3; Faulkner (Ala.) 3
Rating Methodology:
- The rating 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 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.”
- For the complete men’s soccer ratings calendar, click here.