KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Dordt (Iowa) opens the season as the No. 1 voted team in the preseason edition of the 2024-25 NAIA Women’s Basketball Top 25 Poll. The Defenders won the Battle for the Red Banner in 2023-24. Dordt received 12 of the 20 first-place votes, while Providence (Mont.) and Indiana Wesleyan garnered first-place votes with seven and one, respectively.
| RANK | INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | 2023-24 RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | Dordt (Iowa) [12] | 35-2 | 532 |
| 2 | Providence (Mont.) [7] | 27-9 | 525 |
| 3 | Indiana Wesleyan [1] | 29-5 | 496 |
| 4 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 31-2 | 470 |
| 5 | Concordia (Neb.) | 27-7 | 452 |
| 6 | Dakota State (S.D.) | 28-7 | 432 |
| 7 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 26-10 | 422 |
| 8 | Carroll (Mont.) | 28-6 | 412 |
| 9 | Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) | 22-11 | 357 |
| 10 | Southern Oregon | 28-5 | 330 |
| 11 | Georgetown (Ky.) | 25-7 | 326 |
| 12 | Indiana Tech | 30-4 | 298 |
| 13 | Loyola (La.) | 26-5 | 289 |
| 14 | LSU Shreveport (La.) | 30-3 | 252 |
| 15 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 26-6 | 235 |
| 16 | Mayville State (S.D.) | 26-4 | 230 |
| 17 | Grand View (Iowa) | 37-5 | 216 |
| 18 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 23-9 | 200 |
| 19 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 19-12 | 192 |
| 20 | Oregon Tech | 27-5 | 181 |
| 21 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 16-13 | 163 |
| 22 | Saint Francis (Ind.) | 18-11 | 151 |
| 23 | Briar Cliff (Iowa) | 24-10 | 139 |
| 24 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 26-6 | 125 |
| 25 | IU South Bend (Ind.) | 31-2 | 124 |
Receiving Votes: The Master’s (Calif.) 115, Marian (Ind.) 102, Jamestown (N.D.) 91, William Carey (Miss.) 57, Pikeville (Ky.) 50, Tabor (Kan.) 47, Benedictine (Kan.) 43, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 39, Stephens (Mo.) 35, Southeastern (Fla.) 22, Oakland City (Ind.) 15, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 13, Arizona Christian 12, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 12, Langston (Okla.) 11, Xavier (La.) 9, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 6, Milligan (Tenn.) 5, Columbia (Mo.) 4
