KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two teams from the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) were recognized in the NAIA Men’s Golf Preseason Coaches’ Poll, the national office announced Thursday.
Friends University was ranked No. 10 in the preseason poll. Kansas Wesleyan University joined the Falcons in the preseason poll as part of the “Receiving Votes” category of the poll.
The next edition of the NAIA Men’s Golf Coaches’ Poll will be released Thursday, October 17.
Rating Methodology
The rating was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
Each conference is represented by one rater.
The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater 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.”
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Dalton State (Ga.) [19] | 570 |
| 2 | 2 | Keiser (Fla.) | 535 |
| 3 | 4 | Texas Wesleyan | 528 |
| 4 | 6 | British Columbia | 500 |
| 5 | 11 | Columbia (Mo.) | 474 |
| 6 | 5 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 452 |
| 7 | 15 | Houston-Victoria (Texas) | 441 |
| 8 | 12 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | 419 |
| 9 | 23 | Marian (Ind.) | 383 |
| 10 | 17 | Friends (Kan.) | 382 |
| 11 | 7 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 360 |
| 12 | 8 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 328 |
| 13 | 3 | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 325 |
| 14 | 14 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 312 |
| 15 | 13 | Cumberland (Tenn.) | 310 |
| 16 | 16 | Coastal Georgia | 305 |
| 17 | 9 | Truett McConnell (Ga.) | 273 |
| 18 | 10 | Oklahoma City | 251 |
| 19 | 18 | William Carey (Miss.) | 234 |
| 20 | 21 | Webber International (Fla.) | 217 |
| 21 | 20 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 178 |
| 22 | 19 | Point (Ga.) | 175 |
| 23 | RV | Lawrence Tech (Mich.) | 141 |
| 24 | 22 | Bellevue (Neb.) | 131 |
| 25 | 24 | Ave Maria (Fla.) | 97 |
Receiving Votes: Taylor (Ind.) 69; Tennessee Wesleyan 69; Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 61; Victoria (B.C.) 60; Cumberlands (Ky.) 56; Northwestern (Iowa) 26; Science and Arts (Okla.) 23, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 23, Benedictine-Mesa (Ariz.) 23, Kansas Wesleyan 20, Arizona Christian 18, Rio Grande (Ohio) 15, The Master’s (Calif.) 10, Indiana Wesleyan 7, Southwestern Christian (Okla.) 7, Reinhardt (Ga.) 5, Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.) 5, Northwestern Ohio 5, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 4, Park (Mo.) 4, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 2.
