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Men's Soccer Up One Spot To #14 In NAIA Coaches Top 25

By: Erik Simpson, Sports Information Director
Men's Soccer-NAIA Poll Graphic 10/13/2021

Men's Soccer | 11/10/2021 4:00:00 PM


KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In the final Coaches' Top 25 Poll, Central Methodist secures all 18 first-place votes and pushes its consecutive streak to eight weeks. The top six teams showed no movement from a week ago. Columbia (Mo.) dropped three spots, Lyon (Ark.) three as well, and Milligan (Tenn.) two places. There is only one new team to reach the rankings in Grand View (Iowa), replacing William Penn (Iowa). 

By The Numbers
This is the 72nd NAIA Top 25 Coaches Poll to be released since the men's soccer program has been eligible for national rankings. They have achieved a national ranking or received votes in 45 of the 712 polls. The highest ranking in program history for the men's soccer team was achieved on the April 14, 2021 poll when the Birds came in at #5.

Poll Methodology
  • The poll 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 on the ballot are not considered "receiving votes"
RANK LAST SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] RECORD FINAL POINTS
1 1 Central Methodist (Mo.) [18] 17-0 498
2 2 Oklahoma Wesleyan 17-2 479
3 3 Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 17-0-1 464
4 4 Mobile (Ala.) 14-1 455
5 5 St. Thomas (Fla.) 11-0-2 432
6 6 Keiser (Fla.) 10-2-1 414
7 8 Missouri Valley 14-4 400
8 9 Bellevue (Neb.) 13-2-2 381
9 10 Indiana Tech 15-1-2 374
10 7 Columbia (Mo.) 11-2-3 352
11 11 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 12-2-1 347
12 12 William Carey (Miss.) 13-3 326
13 13 Rio Grande (Ohio) 14-2-1 304
14 15 Dalton State (Ga.) 12-4-1 287
15 16 Georgia Gwinnett 9-4-1 267
16 14 Milligan (Tenn.) 15-2-1 248
17 18 Vanguard (Calif.) 12-3-1 239
18 17 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 11-6-1 208
19 19 Oregon Tech 15-1-1 198
20 20 Northwestern (Iowa) 16-2-1 188
21 21 Cumberland (Tenn.) 13-3-1 178
22 25 Lyon (Ark.) 12-4-1 133
23 22 CIU (S.C.) 16-2 105
24 NR Grand View (Iowa) 11-4-2 91
25 24 Ottawa (Ariz.) 11-4-1 69

Dropped from the poll: William Penn (Iowa)

Receiving Votes: Bethel (Ind.) 57; McPherson (Kan.) 55; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 38; Cumberlands (Ky.) 34; University of Northwestern Ohio 34; Houston-Victoria (Texas) 31; Warner Pacific (Ore.) 30; William Penn (Iowa) 22; Tennessee Wesleyan 22; Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 21; Florida National 16; Oklahoma Panhandle State 13; Southwestern Christian (Okla.) 9; Grace (Ind.) 7; Southeastern (Fla.) 6; Hastings (Neb.) 5; Bethel (Tenn.) 4; Arizona Christian 3; Lawrence Tech (Mich.) 3

*Information in this article attributed to NAIA Office of Communications 

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