2023 NAIA Women’s Volleyball Coaches Top 25 Preseason Rating
Aug 16, 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Jamestown (N.D.) opens the 2023 season at No. 1 in the NAIA Women’s Volleyball preseason coaches’ Top 25 rating after the team claimed its first title in 2022.
Rating Methodology
The rating was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents/unaffiliated groups.
The Coaches 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 WEEK SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] RECORD POINTS
1 2 Jamestown (N.D.) [18] 37-2 529
2 4 Corban (Ore.) [1] 33-5 512
3 1 Eastern Oregon 34-3 490
4 4 Concordia (Neb.) 25-6 483
5 8 Northwestern (Iowa) 23-8 439
6 13 Park (Mo.) 29-6 429
7 9 Viterbo (Wis.) 29-8 423
8 12 Missouri Baptist 30-5 409
9 3 Midland (Neb.) 28-6 407
10 7 SAGU (Texas) 33-2 350
11 10 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 30-2 335
12 11 Taylor (Ind.) 31-7 321
13 6 Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) 25-8 320
14 16 Columbia (Mo.) 29-11 297
15 17 Montana Tech 24-8 267
16 18 Indiana Wesleyan 24-8 262
17 14 Bellevue (Neb.) 28-8 252
18 15 College of Saint Mary (Neb.) 21-9 243
19 19 Central Methodist (Mo.) 21-9 217
20 RV Southern Oregon 22-12 200
21 21 Marian (Ind.) 26-7 199
22 22 Ottawa (Kan.) 25-11 179
23 24 Texas Wesleyan 26-6 142
24 RV Hastings (Neb.) 20-15 115
25 NR Jessup (Calif.) 17-10 80
25 22 CIU (S.C.) 38-9 80
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 73, Indiana Tech 53, Vanguard (Calif.) 48, Bethel (Ind.) 47, IU Kokomo (Ind.) 47, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 46, Oklahoma Wesleyan 46, John Brown (Ark.) 18, College of Idaho 14, Xavier (La.) 12, Kansas Wesleyan 11, Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.) 10, St. Thomas (Fla.), 5, Benedictine Mesa (Ariz.) 5, Campbellsville (Ky.) 3, Siena Heights (Mich.) 3, OUAZ (Ariz.) 3