Four Frontier Conference teams were ranked in the 2008-09 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Preseason Top 25 Coaches' Poll 

Westminster College, the Frontier Conference coach's preseason choice to win the league, is ranked 13th in the NAIA preseason poll. Lewis-Clark State is ranked 22nd.

Rocky Mountain and Carroll College both received votes but not enough to move into the top-25.

Oklahoma City, the two-time defending champions earned six of the possible 11 first-place votes and 273 total points to begin the year No. 1.