KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw one team ranked and one receive votes in the 2024 NAIA Men’s Soccer Preseason Coaches’ Top 25 poll, released Wednesday by the national office.
After taking the top spot in the
CCC preseason poll, Southern Oregon University secured the No. 25 spot as the sole CCC team to appear on the poll. Warner Pacific University received votes.
The CCC teams are preparing for the conference season which will kick off on September 20th.
| RANK |
INSTITUTION[FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
2023 RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) [18] |
17-4-4 |
480 |
| 2 |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
19-3-4 |
461 |
| 3 |
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
18-2-3 |
443 |
| 4 |
Oklahoma Wesleyan |
17-2-5 |
437 |
| 5 |
Dalton State (Ga.) |
14-2-4 |
410 |
| 6 |
Bethel (Ind.) |
18-3-3 |
393 |
| 7 |
Grace (Ind.) |
15-5-2 |
343 |
| 8 |
Bellevue (Neb.) |
14-6-4 |
341 |
| 9 |
Indiana Tech |
14-4-6 |
333 |
| 10 |
Mobile (Ala.) |
15-2-3 |
321 |
| 11 |
Keiser (Fla.) |
12-4-6 |
312 |
| 12 |
Missouri Valley |
14-6-0 |
287 |
| 13 |
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) |
17-0-4 |
281 |
| 14 |
Columbia (Mo.) |
13-4-5 |
279 |
| 15 |
Westcliff (Calif.) |
18-2-0 |
271 |
| 16 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
12-5-4 |
269 |
| 17 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
13-4-4 |
235 |
| 18 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
12-4-3 |
214 |
| 19 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
14-2-3 |
200 |
| 20 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
16-5-1 |
178 |
| 21 |
Florida National |
11-2-6 |
113 |
| 22 |
Bethel (Tenn.) |
13-5-1 |
105 |
| 23 |
Union Commonwealth (Ky.) |
15-3-2 |
104 |
| 24 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
7-4-5 |
101 |
| 25 |
Southern Oregon |
18-4-0 |
77 |
Receiving Votes: Tennessee Wesleyan 66; Cumberland (Tenn.) 54; LSU Shreveport 44 (La.); UC Merced (Calif.) 42; Louisiana Christian 39; Concordia (Neb.) 38; Briar Cliff (Iowa) 30; Ottawa (Kan.) 12; Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 9; Aquinas (Mich.) 6; WVU Tech (W.Va.) 6; Williams Baptist (Ark.) 6; Hope International (Calif.) 4;
Warner Pacific (Ore.) 2
Poll Methodology:
- The poll is for publicity purposes only and has no weight or bearing in the selection process for national championship field consideration.
- A panel of head coaches representing each conference and Continental Athletic Conference (Independents) voted on the poll.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter votes for the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place, 28 points for third-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.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”.
- For the first preseason poll, there is no column referencing the last time, as polls are new and different from the rating system.