2018 NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Postseason Top 25 Poll - Dec. 5
Dec 05, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Park (Mo.) earned its second red banner for the No. 1 spot in the 2018 NAIA Women’s Volleyball Coaches’ Postseason Top 25 Poll, the national office announced on Wednesday.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000):
- Park brought home its second red banner for women’s volleyball. The previous banner was in 2014.
- The Pirates had only one loss on the season to Columbia (Mo.) in the American Midwest Conference Championship.
- New to the poll this week: No. 19 Aquinas (Mich.), No. 24 Trinity Christian (Ill.) and No. 25 Reinhardt (Ga.)
- Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) holds the longest active streak in the Top 25 with 64 total appearances.
- There has only been one program that has been able to maintain the No. 1 ranking for an entire season, with former member Fresno Pacific (Calif.) accomplishing the feat in 2004, 2008 and 2009.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Association of Independent Institutions and Unaffiliated Groups.
- The 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 in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
- The frequency of polls occurs bi-weekly. This policy was approved by the National Administrative Council (NAC) for the 2016-17 academic season. This change will allow raters the opportunity to consider a larger body of work in between rating periods.
2018 Women’s Volleyball Coaches’ Postseason Top 25 Poll – Dec. 5
| RANK | WEEK | SCHOOL [FIRST PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 2 | Park (Mo.) [19] | 36-1 | 529 |
| 2 | 3 | Columbia (Mo.) | 42-5 | 512 |
| 3 | 7 | Viterbo (Wis.) | 33-8 | 489 |
| 4 | 14 | Midland (Neb.) | 26-8 | 475 |
| 5 | 1 | Grand View (Iowa) | 36-1 | 468 |
| 6 | 6 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 33-4 | 439 |
| 7 | 5 | Dordt (Iowa) | 31-3 | 430 |
| 8 | 10 | Southern Oregon | 29-5 | 412 |
| 9 | 4 | Missouri Baptist | 33-6 | 388 |
| 10 | 13 | Hastings (Neb.) | 22-7 | 377 |
| 11 | 11 | Eastern Oregon | 25-9 | 350 |
| 12 | 8 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 26-9 | 331 |
| 13 | 9 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 30-6 | 330 |
| 14 | 16 | College of Idaho | 24-10 | 314 |
| 15 | 15 | Westmont (Calif.) | 27-7 | 283 |
| 16 | 22 | Corban (Ore.) | 23-13 | 278 |
| 17 | 12 | The Master's (Calif.) | 29-8 | 234 |
| 18 | 24 | Jamestown (N.D.) | 24-9 | 233 |
| 19 | NR | Aquinas (Mich.) | 35-8 | 220 |
| 20 | 17 | Providence (Mont.) | 23-11 | 198 |
| 21 | 21 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 34-8 | 178 |
| 22 | 23 | McPherson (Kan.) | 34-4 | 172 |
| 23 | 25 | Marian (Ind.) | 30-7 | 152 |
| 24 | NR | Trinity Christian (Ill.) | 30-11 | 134 |
| 25 | NR | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 35-8 | 106 |
Others receiving votes: Vanguard (Calif.) 105, Embry-Riddle (Ariz.), Ottawa (Kan.) 82, Morningside (Iowa) 50, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 49, Bellevue (Neb.) 25, Saint Francis (Ind.) 23, Oklahoma City 16, Milligan (Tenn.) 5
