KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With a 9-0 start to the season, Concordia (Neb.) remained at No. 1 in the first regular-season NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll of the 2018-2019 season.
After receiving ten first-place votes in the preseason poll, Concordia received all 12 first-place votes in this round of voting.
Elsewhere from the GPAC, Dakota Wesleyan is ranked #2, while Northwestern jumps 3 spots to 8th. Morningside also made a 3 spot jump to 8th, Hastings is up one spot to 12th, and Jamestown fell to the 20 spot. Newcomers to the poll are No. 15 Dordt and Midland at 25. Briar Cliff received votes
2018-19 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – No. 1 (Nov. 27, 2018)
Rank | Week | School [First-place votes] | Record | Points |
1 | 1 | Concordia (Neb.) [12] | 9-0 | 312 |
2 | 2 | Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) | 9-0 | 302 |
3 | 3 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 6-0 | 291 |
4 | 6 | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) | 7-1 | 281 |
5 | 8 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 7-1 | 270 |
6 | 4 | Marian (Ind.) | 8-2 | 260 |
7 | 9 | Indiana Tech | 8-1 | 249 |
8 | 11 | Morningside (Iowa) | 6-1 | 247 |
9 | 9 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 5-2 | 224 |
10 | 19 | Taylor (Ind.) | 8-3 | 213 |
11 | 25 | Antelope Valley (Calif.) | 7-1 | 209 |
12 | 13 | Hastings (Neb.) | 6-3 | 206 |
13 | NR | Sterling (Kan.) | 7-0 | 196 |
14 | 12 | Southern Oregon | 4-2 | 183 |
15 | NR | Dordt (Iowa) | 7-2 | 176 |
16 | 20 | Tabor (Kan.) | 5-2 | 155 |
17 | 7 | Eastern Oregon | 4-2 | 133 |
18 | 24 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 7-1 | 129 |
19 | 23 | Bryan (Tenn.) | 6-1 | 123 |
20 | 16 | Jamestown (N.D.) | 5-3 | 119 |
21 | 15 | Indiana Wesleyan | 6-4 | 113 |
22 | 4 | Saint Xavier (Ill.) | 3-3 | 112 |
23 | NR | Michigan-Dearborn | 8-1 | 90 |
24 | NR | Huntington (Ind.) | 7-2 | 54 |
25 | NR | Midland (Neb.) | 5-3 | 49 |
25 | NR | Milligan (Tenn.) | 6-0 | 49 |
Dropped out: Lawrence Tech (Mich.), Saint Francis (Ind.), Valley City State (N.D.), Cardinal Stritch (Wis.)
Receiving votes: Indiana Northwest (48), UC-Merced 47, Bellevue (Neb.) 30, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 28, Lawrence Tech 19, Bethany (Kan.) 13, Saint Francis (Ind.) 13, Rochester (Mich.) 6, Haskell (Kan.) 5, Aquinas (Mich.) 5, Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 4, Ave Maria (Fla.) 3, Valley City State (S.D.) 3, Cardinal Stritch 3