FINAL POLL
SAN BERNARDINO (December 11, 2017) — CSUSB's remarkable postseason run was not forgotten by the nation's coaches, who voted the Coyotes 13
th in the final AVCA Top 25 Coaches poll announced Monday.
It is the 18
th straight season that coach
Kim Cherniss's program has been ranked in the final poll, and it is the Coyotes' highest finish since their No. 9 position in 2013.
The Coyotes, who were unranked for the final seven regular-season polls, finished 24-8 overall, won their seventh NCAA West Regional title in school history and reached the NCAA championship for the first time since the 2011 season.
Concordia-St. Paul (34-3), which won its ninth NCAA title in the last 11 years this past weekend in Pensacola, Fla., is ranked first, followed by NCAA runner-up Florida Southern, Southwest Minnesota State, Minnesota Duluth, Lewis, California Baptist, Western Washington, Regis, Nebraska-Kearney and Gannon.
CSUSB has appeared in the top 25 an amazing 232 times of a possible 248 polls — a 93.5-percent rate — since the beginning of the 2000 season.
