2025 NAIA Baseball GoRout Coaches’ Top 25 – No. 1

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2025 NAIA Baseball GoRout Coaches’ Top 25 – No. 1

Mar 05, 2025

Tennessee Wesleyan, the preseason No. 1, earned three first-place votes, and Southeastern (Fla.) picked up the remaining first-place consideration. The Fire moved up eight spots in to the top 10, but the top 10’s biggest mover was Houston-Victoria (Texas) at No. 10, now 19-2 and in the top 10 after receiving votes in the fall.

Georgia Gwinnett and Cumberlands (Ky.) round out the top five, and two teams – Ottawa (Kan.) and The Master’s (Calif.) – gathered their first votes of the season, appearing in the Top 25.

Rating Methodology

  • The rating was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the NAIA’s baseball conferences.
  • The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater’s 30-team ballot. 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 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.

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