KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw four teams ranked and one received votes in the latest NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches Top 25 Rating, released Thursday by the national office.
College of Idaho moved up one spot to No. 3 and earned four first-place votes. Lewis-Clark State College and Eastern Oregon University held its No. 9 and No. 10 rank, respectively. Corban University rounded out the ranked CCC teams at No. 22. Southern Oregon University received votes.
2024 NAIA Men’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – No. 3
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Milligan (Tenn.) [16] |
586 |
| 2 |
2 |
The Master's (Calif.) [1] |
565 |
| 3 |
4 |
College of Idaho [4] |
556 |
| 4 |
3 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
526 |
| 5 |
5 |
Oklahoma City |
525 |
| 6 |
7 |
Spring Arbor (Mich.) |
499 |
| 7 |
6 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
466 |
| 8 |
8 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
436 |
| 9 |
9 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
421 |
| 10 |
10 |
Eastern Oregon |
406 |
| 11 |
12 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
405 |
| 12 |
20 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
392 |
| 13 |
11 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
378 |
| 14 |
13 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
353 |
| 15 |
14 |
Doane (Neb.) |
340 |
| 16 |
15 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
286 |
| 17 |
17 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
283 |
| 18 |
16 |
Kansas Wesleyan |
279 |
| 19 |
18 |
Saint Francis (Ill.) |
229 |
| 20 |
24 |
Shawnee State (Ohio) |
228 |
| 21 |
19 |
Grace (Ind.) |
226 |
| 22 |
23 |
Corban (Ore.) |
155 |
| 23 |
22 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) |
144 |
| 24 |
RV |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
131 |
| 25 |
21 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
129 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Goshen (Ind.)
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 122, Goshen (Ind.) 104, Concordia (Neb.) 101, Cornerstone (Mich.) 68, Marian (Ind.) 30, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 23, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 16, Bellevue (Neb.) 11, Cumberland (Tenn.) 7, Benedictine (Kan.) 6, IU East (Ind.) 3,
Southern Oregon 2
Rating Methodology:
- The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and unaffiliated groupings.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place, 28 for third-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team’s rating 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”.