KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Southeastern (Fla.) is the No. 1 team for the second-straight week in the sixth NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Tuesday. Southeastern earned 11 of 12 first-place votes and 281 total points to earn the top spot.
Top 25 Highlights
- This is the Fire’s second-ever No. 1 ranking.
• Southeastern is now the only undefeated team in DII Women’s Basketball this season.
• Antelope Valley (Calif.) has joined the Top 25 at the No. 24 spot. Reinhardt (Ga.) also joins the Top 25 this week at the No. 25 spot.
• Morningside (Iowa) holds the record for the most No. 1 rankings of all time with 38. Indiana Wesleyan is second with 33.
• Morningside continues to hold the record for longest consecutively-ranked active school with 170 straight polls. Saint Xavier (Ill.) is second on the list with 157, including its time in Division I.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and the Association of Independent Institutions.
• 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 Top 25 calendar, click here.
| RANK | WEEK | SCHOOL [1st Place Votes] | Record | FINAL POINTS | |
| 1 | 1 | Southeastern (Fla.) [10] | 27-0 | 281 | |
| 2 | 2 | Concordia (Neb.) [1] | 29-1 | 272 | |
| 3 | 3 | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) | 28-1 | 263 | |
| 4 | 4 | Saint Xavier (Ill.) | 26-2 | 252 | |
| 5 | 5 | Marian (Ind.) | 28-2 | 247 | |
| 6 | 6 | Eastern Oregon | 27-2 | 236 | |
| 7 | 8 | Jamestown (N.D.) | 27-3 | 225 | |
| 8 | 10 | Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) | 25-5 | 214 | |
| 9 | 7 | Indiana Tech | 27-3 | 209 | |
| 10 | 9 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 21-7 | 198 | |
| 11 | 10 | Southern Oregon | 25-3 | 195 | |
| 12 | 12 | Hastings (Neb.) | 24-5 | 187 | |
| 13 | 15 | Morningside (Iowa) | 20-10 | 158 | |
| 14 | 13 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 21-8 | 153 | |
| 15 | 20 | Indiana Wesleyan | 23-7 | 149 | |
| 16 | 18 | Valley City State (N.D.) | 22-4 | 139 | |
| 17 | 14 | Northwest Christian (Ore.) | 22-5 | 137 | |
| 18 | 16 | Taylor (Ind.) | 21-9 | 132 | |
| 19 | 17 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 20-8 | 129 | |
| 20 | 19 | Lawrence Tech (Mich.) | 24-5 | 119 | |
| 21 | 22 | Friends (Kan.) | 22-7 | 106 | |
| 22 | 21 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 27-3 | 98 | |
| 23 | 23 | Bryan (Tenn.) | 22-8 | 74 | |
| 24 | NR | Antelope Valley (Calif.) | 20-6 | 65 | |
| 25 | NR | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 22-8 | 60 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Embry-Riddle (Ariz.), Saint Francis (Ind.)
Others receiving votes: Indiana East 42; Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) 36; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 32; Oklahoma Wesleyan 14; Bellevue (Neb.) 14; Concordia (Mich.) 13; St. Thomas (Fla.) 13; Oregon Tech 9; Grace (Ind.) 3; Bethany (Kan.) 3; Point (Ga.) 3
