KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Baker University women’s basketball ended its greatest season in program history with a Number 7 ranking in the final NAIA Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 poll.
Baker made the largest jump of any team since the last poll, as they moved up 11 spots from Number 22.
The ‘Cats advanced all the way to the championship game of the 2016 NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship game last Tuesday night inside the Silverstein Eye Centers Arena in Independence, Missouri.
Baker finished the season with a school-record 28 wins with its 28-9 record. Three other teams from the Heart are also ranked in the final poll including Number 1 and NAIA national champion MNU, Number 8 Benedictine and Number 19 Central Methodist.
The Wildcats defeated Benedictine, 50-34, in the NAIA Fab Four to reach the NAIA title game on March. 21.
2015-16 NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Postseason Top 25 Poll (March 30)
| RANK | LAST WEEK^ | SCHOOL (1ST PLACE VOTES) | Record | TOTAL POINTS |
| 1 | 9 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) (9) | 32-5 | 219 |
| 2 | 1 | Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) | 30-3 | 203 |
| 3 | 2 | Westmont (Calif.) | 29-4 | 202 |
| 4 | 3 | Lyon (Ark.) | 30-4 | 193 |
| 5 | 8 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 27-8 | 184 |
| 6 | 5 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 29-6 | 173 |
| 7 | 22 | Baker (Kan.) | 28-9 | 164 |
| 8 | 19 | Benedictine (Kan.) | 29-7 | 159 |
| 9 | 7 | The Master’s (Calif.) | 25-6 | 158 |
| T10 | 6 | Vanguard (Calif.) | 25-7 | 156 |
| T10 | 13 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 27-7 | 156 |
| 12 | 4 | Bethel (Tenn.) | 26-7 | 150 |
| 13 | 10 | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) | 27-8 | 149 |
| 14 | 23 | Pikeville (Ky.) | 26-9 | 138 |
| 15 | 18 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 28-7 | 133 |
| 16 | 20 | Great Falls (Mont.) | 24-11 | 129 |
| 17 | 11 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 25-5 | 103 |
| 18 | 12 | Columbia (Mo.) | 27-6 | 96 |
| 19 | 14 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 26-5 | 95 |
| 20 | 16 | Montana State-Northern | 23-9 | 88 |
| 21 | 15 | Talladega (Ala.) | 23-6 | 80 |
| 22 | 17 | Oklahoma City | 20-9 | 71 |
| 23 | RV | Cumberland (Tenn.) | 18-12 | 65 |
| 24 | 21 | Carroll (Mont.) | 22-9 | 64 |
| 25 | 24 | Loyola (La.) | 23-8 | 53 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Xavier (La.) (No. 25)
Others receiving votes: Langston (Okla.) 37; Martin Methodist (Tenn.) 35; Xavier (La.) 29; LSU Shreveport (La.) 24; Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) 22; Huston-Tillotson (Texas) 3.
^2015-16 Poll on March 9, 2016
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