Coaches poll of April 26, 2023
XULA women's tennis in final coaches poll of the season, 1999-present
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        NEW ORLEANS — For the first time in six years, two top-4 NAIA women's tennis teams are in the same conference or unaffiliated group tournament.
        NAIA No. 4 Xavier University of Louisiana and No. 3 LSU-Alexandria are the top two seeds — the Generals are first — in the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament, which will begin Thursday at XULA.
        XULA and LSUA have first-round byes in the six-team, single-elimination event and will play their semifinal matches Friday — LSUA at 9 a.m. CDT against Our Lady of the Lake or Texas A&M-Texarkana, XULA at 1 p.m. against Lewis-Clark State or LSU-Shreveport. The championship match will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, and admission is free every day.
        Thursday first-round matches: fourth-seeded OLLU vs. fifth-seeded TAMUT at 9 a.m., then third-seeded Lewis-Clark vs. sixth-seeded LSUS at 1 p.m.
        The NAIA announced Wednesday its final coaches poll of the season, and XULA and LSUA held the same positions as two weeks ago.
        The Gold Nuggets are:
        •  In the top 25 for the 92nd consecutive time.
        •  In the top 20 for the 92nd consecutive time.
        •  In the top 15 for the 51st consecutive time.
        •  In the top five for the eighth consecutive time.
        XULA made the final top 10 for the seventh consecutive season and the 10th time in the last 11 seasons. The Gold Nuggets are in the final top 25 for the 18th time in the last 19 seasons. The longer streak does not include 2005-06, when XULA did not field a team in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
        The Gold Nuggets are in the final top four for the fifth time in six seasons and the eighth time in the last 11 seasons.
        Combined with XULA's No. 7 ranking in men's tennis, this is the seventh consecutive season and the 10th time in 11 years that the Gold Nuggets and Gold Rush both have top-10 rankings in the final poll.
        Excluding 2020 — when a pandemic canceled U.S. college sports in mid-March — this is the first time since 2011 that the final NAIA poll of the season occurs before the national tournament.