2022 NAIA Women’s Basketball Preseason Coaches’ Top 25 Poll
Oct 26, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Thomas More (Ky.), defending national champion, opens up the 2022-23 season at No. 1 in the 2022-23 NAIA Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 Poll.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Independents 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 low ratings) 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 team appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 3 | Thomas More (Ky.) [19] | 32-4 | 590 |
| 2 | 2 | Westmont (Calif.) [2] | 27-5 | 570 |
| 3 | 6 | Morningside (Iowa) | 30-6 | 515 |
| 4 | 5 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 31-6 | 505 |
| 4 | 11 | Carroll (Mont.) | 27-8 | 505 |
| 6 | 1 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 33-2 | 492 |
| 7 | 4 | Marian (Ind.) | 30-5 | 480 |
| 8 | 14 | Clarke (Iowa) | 31-5 | 478 |
| 9 | 15 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 31-6 | 470 |
| 10 | 8 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 33-4 | 418 |
| 11 | 12 | Indiana Wesleyan | 30-5 | 409 |
| 12 | RV | Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) | 27-8 | 357 |
| 13 | 12 | Sterling (Kan.) | 32-3 | 331 |
| 14 | 9 | Bryan (Tenn.) | 32-2 | 324 |
| 15 | 21 | Dordt (Iowa) | 29-9 | 267 |
| 15 | RV | Georgetown (Ky.) | 22-12 | 267 |
| 17 | 25 | Loyola (La.) | 23-6 | 266 |
| 18 | 7 | The Master’s (Calif.) | 31-3 | 251 |
| 19 | NR | Vanguard (Calif.) | 13-12 | 228 |
| 20 | 20 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 32-3 | 200 |
| 21 | RV | Rust (Miss.) | 26-4 | 197 |
| 22 | 19 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 25-5 | 182 |
| 23 | NR | Montana Western | 15-14 | 174 |
| 24 | 17 | Indiana Tech | 30-3 | 146 |
| 25 | 10 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 29-5 | 142 |
Receiving Votes: Dakota State (S.D.) 123, St. Francis (Ill.) 107, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 82, Cumberlands (Ky.) 54, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 32, Northwestern (Iowa) 30, Midway (Ky.) 28, Bethel (Tenn.) 26, Xavier (La.) 23, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) 23, Columbia (Mo.) 21, Eastern Oregon 14, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 10, Tabor (Kan.) 10, IU South Bend (Ind.) 9, Faulkner (Ala.) 8, Benedictine (Kan.) 4, Pikeville (Ky.) 4, LSU Shreveport (La.) 4