KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced the outcome of the second regular-season version of the NAIA Men's Cross Country Top-25 Rating. The Milligan University men's team ended up at No. 12, after sitting at No. 11 last time around.

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 are removed. The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and unaffiliated groupings.

The men have not raced their top runners since prior to the previous top-25 rating. They earned 346 points in this poll, trailing the No. 11 slot by 25 points.

The full ratings are listed below:
 

RANK	LAST	INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]	POINTS
1	1	Cumberlands (Ky.) [19]	559
2	T-2	Southern Oregon	535
3	T-2	Indiana Wesleyan	521
4	5	College of Idaho	500
5	4	The Master's (Calif.)	488
6	7	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	454
7	10	Tennessee Southern	432
8	12	Trinity Western (B.C.)	414
9	18	Goshen (Ind.)	393
10	23	Cornerstone (Mich.)	387
11	9	Marian (Ind.)	371
12	11	Milligan (Tenn.)	346
13	6	Saint Mary (Kan.)	333
14	19	Northwest (Wash.)	308
15	14	Madonna (Mich.)	307
16	13	St. Francis (Ill.)	296
17	15	Rio Grande (Ohio)	265
18	22	Dordt (Iowa)	259
19	20	Park (Mo.)	231
20	16	Rocky Mountain (Mont.)	227
21	25	Eastern Oregon	210
22	8	Corban (Ore.)	170
23	17	Taylor (Ind.)	169
24	21	IU East (Ind.)	147
25	NR	Oklahoma City	110

?Dropped out of the Top 25: Doane (Neb.)

Receiving Votes: Columbia (Mo.) 88, Montreat (N.C.) 65, Aquinas (Mich.) 36, Oregon Tech 32, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 25, Benedictine (Kan.) 24, Carroll (Mont.) 17, Doane (Neb.) 14, Haskell Indian Nations (Kan.) 12, John Brown (Ark.) 10, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 9, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 5, Ave Maria (Fla.) 3, Evangel (Mo.) 3