KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw one team ranked and one received votes in the first NAIA Baseball preseason Top 25 Rating of the 2025 season, released Wednesday by the national office.
Lewis-Clark State College came in at No. 24. University of British Columbia received votes.
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
4 |
LSU Shreveport (La.) [14] |
19-0 |
495 |
| 2 |
1 |
Tennessee Wesleyan [3] |
16-3 |
481 |
| 3 |
11 |
Southeastern (Fla.) [1] |
16-0 |
461 |
| 4 |
3 |
Georgia Gwinnett |
16-2 |
456 |
| 5 |
5 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
14-2 |
420 |
| 6 |
6 |
Reinhardt (Ga.) |
13-3 |
414 |
| 7 |
8 |
Webber International (Fla.) |
17-2 |
402 |
| 8 |
2 |
Hope International (Calif.) |
14-4 |
395 |
| 9 |
10 |
Arizona Christian |
16-4 |
340 |
| 10 |
RV |
Houston-Victoria (Texas) |
19-2 |
332 |
| 11 |
21 |
Loyola (La.) |
16-4 |
329 |
| 12 |
9 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
15-4 |
326 |
| 13 |
18 |
Faulkner (Ala.) |
14-3 |
289 |
| 14 |
RV |
OUAZ (Ariz.) |
15-3 |
273 |
| 15 |
RV |
Oklahoma Wesleyan |
19-2 |
263 |
| 16 |
17 |
Indiana Southeast |
11-5 |
260 |
| 17 |
13 |
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) |
16-5 |
258 |
| 18 |
19 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
11-4 |
255 |
| 19 |
16 |
Missouri Baptist |
8-3 |
206 |
| 20 |
RV |
Keiser (Fla.) |
13-0 |
163 |
| 21 |
20 |
Concordia (Neb.) |
8-3 |
137 |
| 22 |
NR |
Ottawa (Kan.) |
16-3 |
132 |
| 23 |
14 |
Central Methodist (Mo.) |
7-7 |
125 |
| 24 |
7 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
6-7 |
111 |
| 25 |
NR |
The Master's (Calif.) |
14-4 |
104 |
Dropped from Top 25: Bellevue (Neb.),
British Columbia, Kansas Wesleyan, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), Oklahoma City, Tabor (Kan.).
Receiving Votes: St. Thomas (Fla.) 102, Doane (Neb.) 90, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 80, Cumberland (Tenn.) 54, Science and Arts (Okla.) 44, Milligan (Tenn.) 37, Texas Wesleyan 27, Talladega (Ala.) 16,
British Columbia 8, Indiana Tech 6, Johnson (Tenn.) 4, Columbia (Mo.) 4, Kansas Wesleyan 4.
Rating Methodology:
- The rating was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater 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 on the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”