AAC Places 3 in NAIA Top 20
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) teams received votes in the latest edition of the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll, the national organization announced on Friday.
Milligan leads the pack with an 11th-place ranking. The Buffaloes garnered 332 voting points in nearly missing cracking the top 10.
Truett McConnell and SCAD Atlanta follow at No. 16 and No. 17, respectively. The Bears picked up 264 voting points with the Bees collecting 229.
Poll Methodology
• The poll 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 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."
| RANK | LAST | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | British Columbia [15] | 496 |
| 2 | 2 | Dalton State (Ga.) [2] | 482 |
| 3 | 4 | Keiser (Fla.) | 463 |
| 4 | 3 | Oklahoma City [1] | 446 |
| 5 | 5 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 441 |
| 6 | 6 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 419 |
| 7 | 9 | SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | 389 |
| 8 | 7 | Indiana Wesleyan | 388 |
| 9 | 8 | William Carey (Miss.) | 382 |
| 10 | 12 | Taylor (Ind.) | 344 |
| 11 | 13 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 332 |
| 12 | 10 | Loyola (La.) | 321 |
| 13 | 14 | Ottawa (Ariz.) | 304 |
| 14 | 11 | Cumberland (Tenn.) | 293 |
| 15 | 15 | Menlo (Calif.) | 277 |
| 16 | 16 | Truett McConnell (Ga.) | 264 |
| 17 | 17 | SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) | 229 |
| 18 | 19 | Northwestern Ohio | 212 |
| 19 | 19 | Bethel (Ind.) | 211 |
| 20 | 17 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 202 |
| 21 | 23 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 168 |
| 22 | 22 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 149 |
| 23 | 24 | Texas Wesleyan | 143 |
| 23 | RV | Marian (Ind.) | 143 |
| 25 | 21 | William Penn (Iowa) | 111 |
Receiving Votes: USC Beaufort (S.C.) 108; Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 72; Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 60; Grace (Ind.) 48; Victoria (B.C.) 28; Vanguard (Calif.) 20; Bethany (Kan.) 6; Midway (Ky.) 4; Coastal Georgia 3; Columbia (Mo.) 3