2022-23 NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll - Preseason (August 26)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Keiser (Fla.) receives all 19 first-place votes in the 2022-23 NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll after being victorious in last year's National Championship. Runner-Up Dalton State (Ga.) maintains second position while Houston-Victoria (Texas), Ottawa (Ariz.) and USC Beaufort (S.C.) each move up on place from the championship finish a year ago.
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] | CONFERENCE | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Keiser (Fla.) [19] | The Sun | 529 |
| 2 | 2 | Dalton State (Ga.) | Southern States | 512 |
| 3 | 4 | Houston-Victoria (Texas) | Red River | 482 |
| 4 | 5 | Ottawa (Ariz.) | Golden State | 447 |
| 5 | 6 | USC Beaufort (S.C.) | Continental | 445 |
| 6 | 3 | Bellevue (Neb.) | North Star | 441 |
| 7 | 12 | Coastal Georgia | The Sun | 424 |
| 8 | 8 | British Columbia | Cascade | 416 |
| 9 | 10 | Texas Wesleyan | Sooner | 411 |
| 10 | 13 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | Appalachian | 379 |
| 11 | 11 | Oklahoma City | Sooner | 368 |
| 12 | 13 | Southeastern (Fla.) | The Sun | 330 |
| 13 | 9 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | Sooner | 329 |
| 14 | 7 | Point (Ga.) | Appalachian | 323 |
| 15 | NR | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | Cascade | 259 |
| 16 | NR | Southwestern Christian (Okla.) | Sooner | 255 |
| 17 | NR | Cumberlands (Ky.) | Mid-South | 237 |
| 18 | 13 | Morningside (Iowa) | Great Plains | 199 |
| 19 | NR | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | Mid-South | 186 |
| 20 | NR | The Master's (Calif.) | Golden State | 176 |
| 21 | NR | SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | The Sun | 161 |
| 22 | NR | Truett McConnell (Ga.) | Appalachian | 160 |
| 23 | NR | Columbia (Mo.) | American Midwest | 135 |
| 24 | 16 | Victoria (B.C.) | Continental | 133 |
| 25 | NR | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | Frontier | 132 |
Dropped from poll: Midway (Ky.)
Receiving Votes: Central Methodist (Mo.) 113; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 99; William Woods (Mo.) 62; Sterling (Kan.) 59; Midway (Ky.) 56; Tennessee Southern (Tenn.) 38; Mount Mercy (Iowa) 35; William Carey (Miss.) 30; Montana Tech 22; Milligan (Tenn.) 19; St. Thomas (Fla.) 17; Tennessee Wesleyan 16; Doane (Neb.) 15; Kansas Wesleyan 13; Lawrence Tech (Mich.) 7; Webber International (Fla.) 3
