Feb. 21, 2007

OLATHE, Kan. - For the 11^th-straight rating, including this season's preseason rating, Robert Morris (Ill.) with its eight first-place votes, is the No. 1 rated NAIA Division I Men's Basketball team, followed by Oklahoma City, who fell five points behind RMC with three first-place considerations.

 

Georgetown (Ky.) and Mountain State (W. Va.) follow in a tie for the No. 3 position, while Concordia (Calif.) rounds out the top five in the same position that it held last week. San Diego Christian (Calif.) moves up threes spots this week to occupy the No. 6 position, while Southern Nazarene (Okla.) moved up one to No. 7 and Campbellsville (Ky.) surged two spots to No. 8. The Top 10 closes with a tie at No. 9 between Lambuth (Tenn.), who fell two spots, and Park (Mo.) who fell three from last week.

 

Three teams entered this week's Top 25, led by LSU-Shreveport (La.) at No. 19, Crichton (Tenn.) at No. 21 and Northwestern Oklahoma at No. 25. The polls biggest drop belongs to Carroll (Mont.), who fell from No. 23 to No. 15, while Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) made the poll's largest jump, moving up four positions to No. 16.

 

RANK	LAST WEEK	SCHOOL	1ST PLACE VOTES	RECORD	TOTAL POINTS
1	1	Robert Morris (Ill.)	8	25-0	327
2	2	Oklahoma City	3	28-0	322
3	4	Georgetown (Ky.)		24-3	297
3	3	Mountain State (W.Va.)		23-4	297
5	5	Concordia (Calif.)		23-4	296
6	9	San Diego Christian (Calif.)		20-4	259
7	8	Southern Nazarene (Okla.)		22-6	247
8	10	Campbellsville (Ky.)		23-4	240
9	7	Lambuth (Tenn.)		23-5	237
9	6	Park (Mo.)		21-5	237
11	10	Houston Baptist (Texas)		19-4	230
12	13	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)		22-5	217
13	16	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)		21-4	193
14	12	Union (Tenn.)		19-8	188
15	17	Oklahoma Baptist		16-9	153
16	20	Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)		21-6	141
17	18	Illinois-Springfield		18-8	140
18	14	Faulkner (Ala.)		20-8	138
19	NR	LSU-Shreveport (La.)		21-6	115
20	19	Jarvis Christian (Texas)		22-4	100
21	NR	Crichton (Tenn.)		20-7	82
22	25	California Baptist		18-8	81
23	15	Carroll (Mont.)		19-8	74
24	24	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)		16-9	72
25	NR	Northwestern Oklahoma		17-9	71

 

Others Receiving Votes: Southern Polytechnic (Ga.), 66; McKendree (Ill.), 48; Cumberlands (Ky.), 44; Xavier (La.), 33; Texas Wesleyan, 29; Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.), 27; Emmanuel (Ga.), 21; Lubbock Christian (Texas), 21; Martin Methodist (Tenn.), 19; Lee (Tenn.), 9; Westminster (Utah), 8; John Brown (Ark.), 7; St. Xavier (Ill.), 6; Voorhees (S.C.), 6; Westmont (Calif.), 6; Wiley (Texas), 4; Montana State-Northern, 2; Tougaloo (Miss.), 2; Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.), 2; William Carey (Miss.), 1.