Lady Buffs XC Repeats at No. 1 in Second Regular-Season NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Rating

The Milligan women's cross country squad remains at the top of the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Rating for the second straight week

October 3, 2024

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - On Thursday, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced the results of the NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating - No. 2. The rating lists Milligan as the top-ranked squad in the land after an idle week. The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and unaffiliated groupings. The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place, 28 for third-place and so on through the list.

Overall, the Buffaloes earned 550 points in the rating, earning 14 of the 20 first-place votes. Out of the top four schools, Milligan was the lone program to keep their spot from the previous week, atop the rankings.

Click HERE to view the release at NAIA.org.

The full rating is listed below:

RANK	LAST WEEK	SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]	POINTS
1	1	Milligan (Tenn.) [14]	550
2	4	Taylor (Ind.) [5]	531
3	2	Saint Mary (Kan.) [1]	529
4	3	The Master's (Calif.)	520
5	5	Cumberlands (Ky.)	491
6	6	College of Idaho	471
7	7	Montreat (N.C.)	446
8	8	Dordt (Iowa)	428
9	9	Southern Oregon	401
10	11	Grace (Ind.)	390
11	10	St. Francis (Ill.)	382
12	13	SCAD Savanah (Ga.)	344
13	12	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	343
14	15	Indiana Wesleyan	329
15	14	Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)	309
16	17	Cornerstone (Mich.)	286
17	16	Huntington (Ind.)	270
18	18	Kansas Wesleyan	250
19	19	Carroll (Mont.)	228
20	20	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)	213
21	22	Mount Mercy (Iowa)	169
22	21	Aquinas (Mich.)	149
23	RV	Goshen (Ind.)	143
23	RV	Oklahoma City	143
25	24	SCAD Atlanta (Ga.)	116

Dropped from the Top 25: Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Concordia (Neb.)

Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 108, Marian (Ind.) 96, Concordia (Neb.) 49, Benedictine (Kan.) 39, Montana Tech 35, College of Saint Mary (Neb.) 32, William Woods (Mo.) 20, Doane (Neb.) 18, Evangel (Mo.) 14, Campbellsville (Ky.) 14, Eastern Oregon 13, UC Merced (Calif.) 9, Cumberland (Tenn.) 3, Missouri Baptist 2