BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Three Mid-South Conference teams are ranked and a fourth earned a mention in the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, NAIA officials announced on Friday.
Cumberland (Tenn.), Cumberlands (Ky.), and Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) are all ranked in the first ranking of the 2025-26 season, while Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) is outside the top 25 but receiving voting points.
Cumberlands is the top ranked MSC team at No. 12. The Patriots received 291 voting points from the national raters. Cumberlands owns two wins this fall, including winning its last event at the Gibson Bay Invitational. The Patriots close out the fall at the Mid-South Conference Fall Invitational on Oct. 27-28 in Bowling Green.
Lindsey Wilson is No. 19 in the poll with 211 voting points. The Blue Raiders finished third at Gibson Bay. Lindsey Wilson has two tournaments remaining this fall, at the Roadrunner Classic on Monday and Tuesday and at the MSC event.
Cumberland checks in at No. 21 this week after garnering 166 voting points. The Phoenix join Lindsey Wilson at the Roadrunner next week before closing out the fall at the MSC invitational.
Freed-Hardeman received 27 voting points from the national raters. The Lions won their home event this fall and will also be in the field at the Roadrunner and MSC tournaments.
Keiser (Fla.) remains No. 1 with 465 voting points, while British Columbia is second with 450 voting points and Dalton State (Ga.) is No. 3 with 431 points.
The next poll is scheduled to be released on Friday, Oct. 31.
Ratings Methodology
· 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.
· The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team’s rating will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) on which the team appears.
· Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”.