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In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
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Gold Rush in preseason top 25 for 2nd straight season
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October 24, 2011
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana is
No. 21 in the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 announced Monday. It's the
first time in coach Dannton Jackson's nine seasons that the Gold Rush
are preseason top-25 in consecutive years.
Xavier, 27-6 and the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament
runner-up this past season, returns nine lettermen
and four starters. The Rush will attempt to qualify for the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I National
Championship for the sixth time in eight seasons. This past season the XU men
won their first 13 games and qualified for nationals with their most victories since the 1983-84 season.
Xavier was 20th in the 2010-11 preseason and spent
three weeks in the top 10.
The other GCAC team to receive votes was defending tournament
champion Tougaloo, which is 13th. Xavier will visit Tougaloo on Jan. 23 and
play host to the Bulldogs on Feb. 13. Two teams which received votes, Mobile
and William Carey, will play Xavier in home-and-away non-conference series this season.
Defending champion Pikeville is the preseason No. 1 after
receiving five of 12 first-place votes. Four other teams received first-place votes.
Earlier in the day Xavier's women's team earned a preseason
No. 16 ranking. That makes Xavier one of four NAIA Division I schools — the
others are Azusa Pacific, Evangel and Union (Tenn.) — with men's and women's
basketball teams to earn preseason top-25 rankings in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
The Gold Rush will open the season at 7 p.m. Nov. 2
at The Barn against Carver College of Atlanta.
The first regular-season poll will be announced Dec. 5.
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NAIA Division I Men's
Basketball Coaches' Top 25
(first-place votes in parentheses — includes 2010-11 final records)
| Rank |
Team |
Record |
Points |
Last |
| 1 |
Pikeville (5) |
30-7 |
300 |
24 |
| 2 |
Mountain State (3) |
33-4 |
295 |
3 |
| 3 |
Robert Morris (Chicago) (2) |
32-2 |
293 |
1 |
| 4 |
Concordia (Calif.) (1) |
32-4 |
288 |
2 |
| 5 |
Martin Methodist (1) |
34-3 |
268 |
6 |
| 6 |
LSU-Shreveport |
30-4 |
255 |
4 |
| 7 |
Oklahoma Baptist |
24-9 |
254 |
9 |
| 8 |
Georgetown (Ky.) |
32-5 |
240 |
7 |
| 9 |
Azusa Pacific |
29-6 |
233 |
8 |
| 10 |
Texas Wesleyan |
30-4 |
223 |
6 |
| 11 |
Rogers State |
22-12 |
202 |
25 |
| 12 |
Shorter |
23-8 |
188 |
RV |
| 13 |
Tougaloo |
27-4 |
185 |
11 |
| 14 |
Columbia (Mo.) |
26-6 |
166 |
18 |
| 15-tie |
Biola |
28-6 |
158 |
13 |
| 15-tie |
Montana State Northern |
24-9 |
158 |
19 |
| 17 |
St. Catharine |
22-9 |
149 |
14 |
| 18 |
Southern Nazarene |
26-8 |
141 |
10 |
| 19 |
Evangel |
26-9 |
132 |
15 |
| 20 |
Southern Poly |
23-10 |
121 |
RV |
| 21 |
Xavier |
27-6 |
94 |
17 |
| 22 |
Union (Tenn.) |
26-7 |
88 |
12 |
| 23 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
23-9 |
75 |
22 |
| 24 |
Saint Xavier |
19-13 |
66 |
NR |
| 25 |
Fresno Pacific |
20-11 |
63 |
RV |
Others receiving votes: Park 55, Lee (Tenn.) 45, MidAmerica Nazarene 33,
Mobile 31, Oklahoma Christian 26, Campbellsville 24, Our Lady of the Lake 22,
Freed-Hardeman 21, Life 16, Montana Western 12, Westminster (Utah) 3,
William Carey 1, Northwestern Oklahoma 1, St. Francis (Ill.) 1,
Benedictine (Kan.) 1, Westmont 1, Emmanuel (Ga.) 1, Cumberland 1, Cumberlands 1. |
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