KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Westmont lands at No. 1 in the 2022 NAIA Women’s Basketball Preseason Coaches’ Top 25 Poll after taking home the red banner in 2021.
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 4 | Westmont (Calif.) [19] | 15-1 | 560 |
| 2 | 1 | Thomas More (Ky.) | 29-2 | 542 |
| 3 | 3 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 20-3 | 496 |
| 4 | 5 | Marian (Ind.) [1] | 27-6 | 494 |
| 5 | 10 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 26-3 | 493 |
| 6 | 7 | Morningside (Iowa) | 29-3 | 490 |
| 7 | 6 | Carroll (Mont.) | 21-3 | 426 |
| 8 | 2 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 13-1 | 413 |
| 9 | 17 | Concordia (Neb.) | 22-9 | 398 |
| 10 | 15 | Vanguard (Calif.) | 7-5 | 389 |
| 11 | 12 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | 19-5 | 377 |
| 11 | 20 | Indiana Wesleyan | 24-6 | 377 |
| 13 | 14 | Dakota State (S.D.) | 27-4 | 376 |
| 14 | 13 | Indiana Tech | 27-3 | 314 |
| 15 | 18 | Lyon (Ark.) | 15-2 | 312 |
| 16 | 11 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 19-6 | 284 |
| 17 | RV | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 13-6 | 277 |
| 18 | 9 | Sterling (Kan.) | 30-1 | 237 |
| 19 | 8 | Clarke (Iowa) | 23-3 | 226 |
| 20 | RV | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 18-4 | 169 |
| 21 | RV | Montana Western | 17-10 | 138 |
| 22 | NR | Bushnell (Ore.) | 11-2 | 135 |
| 23 | 21 | Loyola (La.) | 21-2 | 132 |
| 24 | NR | The Master’s (Calif.) | 7-5 | 116 |
| 25 | NR | Taylor (Ind.) | 19-7 | 108 |
Receiving Votes: Saint Xavier (Ill.) 89, Columbia (Mo.) 83, Providence (Mont.) 58, Science & Arts (Okla.) 50. Pikeville (Ky.) 39, Oklahoma City 38, St. Francis (Ill.) 36, Rust (Miss.) 34, Dordt (Iowa) 30, Talladega (Ala.) 23, Bellevue (Neb.) 16, Bethel (Tenn.) 16, LSU Shreveport (La.) 15, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) 14, Northwestern (Iowa) 12, Tabor (Kan.) 10, Eastern Oregon 5, Benedictine (Kan.) 3, Bryan (Tenn.) 3
