KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Wednesday, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) uncovered the postseason edition of the Men's Soccer Coaches' Top 25 Poll. The Miligan University Buffaloes returned to the receiving votes category after their trip to at least the NAIA Second Round for the third year in a row.
Milligan concluded their campaign with 34 points in the final poll of 2025, heavily due to their 3-0 surge past the LSU Alexandria Generals in the NAIA First Round. The squad closed out their season with a 12-7-2 record and were the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) regular-season and tournament runner-up. The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter votes for the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place, 28 points for third-place and so on through the list. A panel of head coaches representing each conference and Continental Athletic Conference (Independents) voted on the poll.
The full poll is listed below:
| RANK |
LAST POLL |
INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
| 1 |
16 |
Grand View (Iowa) [14] |
18-4-3 |
417 |
| 2 |
15 |
WVU Tech (W.V.) [1] |
20-1-2 |
392 |
| 3 |
2 |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
16-3-5 |
389 |
| 4 |
8 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
9-6-6 |
376 |
| 5 |
12 |
Georgia Gwinnett |
13-3-4 |
337 |
| 6 |
17 |
Indiana Tech |
18-5-1 |
325 |
| 7 |
19 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
12-6-4 |
318 |
| 8 |
NR |
Warner Pacific (Ore.) |
16-4-4 |
298 |
| 9 |
1 |
Oklahoma Wesleyan |
19-1-3 |
296 |
| 10 |
10 |
Bethel (Tenn.) |
13-2-2 |
269 |
| 11 |
5 |
Life (Ga.) |
16-1-3 |
268 |
| 12 |
7 |
LSU Shreveport (La.) |
14-2-6 |
264 |
| 13 |
4 |
Bethel (Ind.) |
16-3-3 |
259 |
| 14 |
9 |
Cumberland (Tenn.) |
14-4-3 |
239 |
| 15 |
21 |
Ottawa (Kan.) |
15-3-6 |
226 |
| 16 |
3 |
Keiser (Fla.) |
16-1-2 |
188 |
| 17 |
RV |
John Brown (Ark.) |
12-5-5 |
185 |
| 18 |
6 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
12-4-1 |
174 |
| 19 |
11 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
14-4-3 |
138 |
| 20 |
13 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
11-5-4 |
122 |
| 21 |
20 |
Baker (Kan.) |
14-5-3 |
117 |
| 22 |
18 |
Grace College (Ind.) |
16-7-3 |
93 |
| 23 |
14 |
Madonna (Mich.) |
17-3-2 |
80 |
| 24 |
23 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
11-5-4 |
77 |
| 25 |
22 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
19-3-1 |
70 |
Receiving Votes: Xavier (La.) 67, Union Commonwealth (Ky.) 52, Faulkner (Ala.) 50, Westcliff (Calif.) 38, Milligan (Tenn.) 34, Carroll (Mont.) 32, Eastern Oregon 29, Dalton State (Ga.) 10, Concordia (Neb.) 6, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 5, Midland (Neb.) 2.
Dropped from Top 25: Eastern Oregon (Ore.), Dalton State (Ga.)
