Daily Dive: October 27 | Top 25 Scoreboard, Week 1 Winners and Road To Muni Is FINALLY Back on Audio
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
The season is rolling, our opening-week category winners are in, and we have some news for everyone who has been asking about the podcast.
Road To Muni is FINALLY back on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other audio-only platforms!
We have Monday’s Top 25 scoreboard, standout individual performances and a look at the players and programs that earned our Week 1 honors. Let’s dive in!
Top 25 scoreboard: Monday, October 26
Rankings are from the October 21 NAIA preseason coaches’ poll, not NHR’s rankings. RV means receiving votes.
- T-No. 11 Oklahoma Wesleyan 83, Our Lady of the Lake 52. Box score.
- No. 14 Loyola 107, Texas College 82. Box score.
- No. 24 Wayland Baptist 82, New College of Florida 65. Official recap.
Also reported by the NAIA scoreboard: No. 9 LSU Shreveport 85, East Texas Baptist 78. NAIA scoreboard.
Receiving votes: LSU Alexandria 99, Central Baptist 78. Box score.
Keep our Scores & Schedules page bookmarked for the broader slate.
Monday’s top performers
Selected standouts from Monday’s verified box scores, not an exhaustive national ranking:
- Kosta Bjelicic, Loyola: 25 points, four rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Bjelicic was a perfect 8-for-8 from the floor in the 107–82 win over Texas College. Box score.
- Cole Thomas and Jordan Treat, IU Southeast: 23 points apiece. Thomas added nine rebounds and three assists; Treat hit five threes and collected three steals in a 99–77 win over Simmons. Box score.
- Kheiri Haynes, LSU Alexandria: 21 points and six assists. Haynes shot 8-for-13 in the Generals’ 99–78 win over Central Baptist. Box score.
- Matt Eng, Mount Marty: 20 points, five assists and two steals. Four made threes and no turnovers in 21 minutes as the Lancers beat Union Adventist, 118–71. Box score.
- Malachi Okunbor, Oklahoma Wesleyan: 18 points, four rebounds and four steals. Okunbor shot 6-for-9 and did his damage in just 18 minutes against OLLU. Box score.
- Eli Meyer, IU Southeast: 11 points and 14 rebounds. Nine of those boards came on the offensive glass. That is a whole lot of extra possessions! Box score.
Week 1 Recap by Categories: Who earned the first honors?
Sixteen categories. Plenty of players and programs worth celebrating. Our Week 1 Recap by Categories covers October 22–24. These are NAIA Hoops Report selections, not official NAIA weekly awards.
- Best Win: LSU Alexandria. An 85–84 win over No. 14 Loyola opened the Jake DuPree era. Andre Walker II scored 29 and delivered the deciding layup with five seconds left.
- Upset: Carroll. The Saints finished a 2–0 California trip by beating No. 20 Hope International, 74–70, on the road.
- MVP: Drew Jones, Carroll. Jones totaled 43 points and nine assists across the two wins. All 20 of his points against HIU came after halftime!
- Pippen: Kenny Ellis, Cumberland (TN). Twenty points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. A triple-double deserves attention, even in an 84–82 loss to Kentucky Christian.
- Onions: Tayvion Wilson, Arizona Christian. His three with one second left lifted No. 3 ACU over RV LC State, 80–79.
- Freshman: Ty Price, Brescia. FORTY-FIVE points, including six threes and an 11-for-11 night at the line, against Harris-Stowe.
Read all 16 selections and see the highlights here.
FINALLY! Road To Muni is back on audio
Spotify. Apple Podcasts. Other audio-only platforms. We are BACK!
For everyone who prefers listening in the car, at work, in the gym or on the road to the next game, Road To Muni is back in your podcast rotation.
Find Road To Muni on Apple Podcasts or listen to our NAIA MBB Tip Off Preview Show on Spotify. You can also search Road To Muni Podcast in your preferred listening app and hit Follow.
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