KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the final NAIA Men’s Tennis Top 25 Coaches’ Poll of the season, Georgia Gwinnett secured the No. 1 spot with 210 points following its national championship run. Tennessee Wesleyan followed closely in second with 203 points, while Keiser (Fla.) landed third with 196 points. Rounding out the top five were Southeastern (Fla.) at No. 4 and William Carey (Miss.) at No. 5 after moving up one spot in the final rankings.
Georgia Gwinnett capped off an unbeaten 25-0 season by returning to the top with a 4-0 victory over Tennessee Wesleyan in the 74th annual UTR Sports NAIA Men’s Tennis National Championship. The title marked the Grizzlies’ 11th national championship in the last 12 seasons, tying Redlands (Calif.) for the most NAIA men’s tennis national titles in history.
| Rank |
Last |
Trend |
|
Institution |
Record |
Points |
| 1 |
1 |
● |
|
Georgia Gwinnett [11 first-place votes] |
25-0 |
210 |
| 2 |
2 |
● |
|
Tennessee Wesleyan |
22-3 |
203 |
| 3 |
3 |
● |
|
Keiser (Fla.) |
18-2 |
196 |
| 4 |
4 |
● |
|
Southeastern (Fla.) |
17-5 |
189 |
| 5 |
6 |
▲ |
|
William Carey (Miss.) |
13-1 |
178 |
| 6 |
5 |
▼ |
|
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
14-3 |
176 |
| 7 |
7 |
● |
|
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
17-8 |
168 |
| 8 |
14 |
▲ |
|
Morningside (Iowa) |
23-5 |
156 |
| 9 |
8 |
▼ |
|
Xavier (La.) |
15-8 |
151 |
| 10 |
9 |
▼ |
|
Holy Cross (Ind.) |
15-4 |
141 |
| 11 |
10 |
▼ |
|
Huntington (Ind.) |
21-5 |
140 |
| 12 |
13 |
▲ |
|
Missouri Baptist |
21-7 |
132 |
| 13 |
11 |
▼ |
|
Dillard (La.) |
11-12 |
128 |
| 14 |
21 |
▼ |
|
Arizona Christian |
15-7 |
112 |
| 14 |
20 |
▲ |
|
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
8-7 |
112 |
| 16 |
22 |
▲ |
|
Loyola (La.) |
8-6 |
97 |
| 17 |
18 |
▲ |
|
Grace (Ind.) |
16-7 |
93 |
| 18 |
17 |
▼ |
|
William Woods (Mo.) |
14-6 |
81 |
| 19 |
15 |
▼ |
|
Coastal Georgia (Ga.) |
10-8 |
76 |
| 20 |
16 |
▼ |
|
Marian (Ind.) |
14-11 |
73 |
| 21 |
23 |
▲ |
|
New College of Florida |
9-9 |
72 |
| 22 |
19 |
▼ |
|
Oakland City (Ind.) |
11-10 |
57 |
| 23 |
NR |
▲ |
|
Bethel (Kan.) |
19-4 |
50 |
| 24 |
NR |
▲ |
|
SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) |
8-3 |
25 |
| 25 |
24 |
▲ |
|
Goshen (Ind.) |
10-8 |
23 |
| 25 |
NR |
▲ |
|
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
16-5 |
23 |
Receiving Votes: Bethel (Tenn.) 21, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) 21, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 20, Tennessee Southern 15, SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 7, Cumberland (Tenn.) 2.
Key: Steady ●| Climbed ▲ | Dropped ▼
Poll Methodology
- The national poll is for publicity purposes only and does not influence the selection process for national championship consideration.
- A panel of head coaches representing each conference and the Continental Athletic Conference (Independents) votes in the poll.
- The Top 25 teams are selected using a points-based system:
- 30 points for a 1st-place vote, 29 for 2nd, 28 for 3rd, and so on.
- The highest and lowest rankings received by each team are discarded before final tallying.
- Teams receiving only one point are not listed as “receiving votes.”
- For the Preseason Poll, there is no “previous ranking” column since it is the initial poll and differs from the prior rating system.
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th>University</th>
<th>Points</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Oklahoma Wesleyan University (Okla.)</td><td>504</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>MidAmerica Nazarene University (Kan.)</td><td>485</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Keiser University (Fla.)</td><td>456</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Bethel University (Ind.)</td><td>455</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Lindsey Wilson University (Ky.)</td><td>407</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>University of the Cumberlands (Ky.)</td><td>397</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Louisiana State University Shreveport (La.)</td><td>374</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>Indiana Wesleyan University (Ind.)</td><td>364</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>William Carey University (Miss.)</td><td>354</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Life University (Ga.)</td><td>351</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>Cumberland University (Tenn.)</td><td>318</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>Georgia Gwinnett College (Ga.)</td><td>317</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>Grand View University (Iowa)</td><td>281</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>Bethel University (Tenn.)</td><td>270</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>Madonna University (Mich.)</td><td>262</td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>William Penn University (Iowa)</td><td>244</td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>Indiana Tech (Ind.)</td><td>229</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>West Virginia University Institute of Technology (W.Va.)</td><td>215</td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>Dalton State College (Ga.)</td><td>167</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>Grace College (Ind.)</td><td>147</td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>Ottawa University (Kan.)</td><td>118</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>Xavier University (La.)</td><td>108</td></tr>
<tr><td>23</td><td>Eastern Oregon University (Ore.)</td><td>89</td></tr>
<tr><td>24</td><td>Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.)</td><td>75</td></tr>
<tr><td>25</td><td>University of Northwestern Ohio (Ohio)</td><td>74</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
