British Columbia Top Team in Preseason Golf World/NIKE Golf NAIA Coaches' Poll
British Columbia Top Team in Preseason Golf World/NIKE Golf NAIA Coaches' Poll
NEW YORK, NY?The Golf Coaches Asssociation of America, in conjunction with Golf World and NIKE Golf has announced its preseason NAIA top 25 ranking.
British Columbia is set to make its national title defense as it starts the year atop the Golf World/NIKE Golf NAIA Preseason Coaches? Poll, grabbing six of the nine first-place votes.
Oklahoma City (No. 2), Oklahoma Christian (No. 3), Point Loma Nazarene (No. 4) and Berry (No. 5) round out the top-five.
NAIA - August 27, 2008 |
Rank | University (First-Place Votes) | Points | Prev. |
1 | British Columbia (6) | 223 | 1 |
2 | Oklahoma City (2) | 213 | 3 |
3 | Oklahoma Christian (1) | 208 | 2 |
4 | Point Loma Nazarene | 197 | 6 |
5 | Berry | 174 | 11 |
6 | Victoria | 162 | 9 |
7 | Texas Wesleyan | 157 | 10 |
8 | Wayland Baptist | 146 | 5 |
9 | CSU-East Bay | 136 | 7 |
10 | Northwood (Texas) | 134 | 12 |
11 | Southern Nazarene | 122 | 13 |
12 | Malone | 108 | 16 |
13 | Lindenwood | 107 | NR |
14 | Southwestern College | 101 | 8 |
15 | St. Ambrose | 88 | 14 |
16 | Davenport | 72 | 17 |
17 | Lee | 62 | NR |
18 | Webber International | 56 | NR |
19 | Cambellsville | 49 | NR |
20 | Shorter | 47 | NR |
21 | Mobile | 42 | NR |
22 | Lindsey Wilson | 34 | NR |
23 | California Baptist | 32 | NR |
T24 | Bethel | 31 | NR |
T24 |
SCAD | 31 | NR |
Others Receiving Votes: CSU-San Marcos, 22; Ohio Dominican, 22; Concordia (Ore.), 20; Northwood (Fla.), 19; Lewis-Clark State, 17; William Woods, 17; Holy Names, 16; Rocky Mountain, 16; Embry-Riddle, 13; Indiana Wesleyan, 11; Thomas, 11; Iowa Wesleyan, 9; Warner Southern, 7; Tennessee Wesleyan, 6; University of the Cumberlands, 5; Grand View, 3; Walsh, 2; Bethany, 1; Oklahoma Baptist, 1.
Dropped from Ranking: Johnson & Wales (#4), St. Thomas (Florida) (#15)