Through games of Feb. 24, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | LW |
| 1 | Carthage (20) | 24-1 | 620 | 1 |
| 2 | Washington U. (4) | 24-1 | 599 | 2 |
| 3 | Catholic | 25-2 | 565 | 3 |
| 4 | Elizabethtown | 25-2 | 531 | 4 |
| 5 | St. Thomas | 24-3 | 522 | 5 |
| 6 | Otterbein | 25-3 | 499 | 7 |
| 7 | DePauw | 22-3 | 446 | 10 |
| 8 | Brockport State | 26-2 | 443 | 9 |
| 9 | UW-Oshkosh (1) | 22-5 | 404 | 13 |
| 10 | Randolph-Macon | 23-5 | 388 | 6 |
| 11 | Wittenberg | 25-3 | 382 | 11 |
| 12 | Gustavus Adolphus | 22-4 | 307 | 8 |
| 13 | Hampden-Sydney | 22-5 | 272 | 18 |
| 14 | Capital | 23-5 | 261 | 14 |
| 15 | UW-Whitewater | 21-7 | 246 | 17 |
| 16 | UW-Stevens Point | 21-6 | 239 | 12 |
| 17 | Mississippi College | 22-2 | 227 | 20 |
| 18 | Rochester | 21-4 | 202 | 21 |
| 19 | Buena Vista | 23-5 | 174 | 23 |
| 20 | St. Norbert | 21-4 | 161 | 15 |
| 21 | Maryville (Tenn.) | 23-4 | 149 | 24 |
| 22 | Lewis & Clark | 21-5 | 129 | --- |
| 23 | Gettysburg | 20-6 | 81 | --- |
| 24 | Franklin & Marshall | 22-5 | 63 | 16 |
| 25 | Christopher Newport | 23-5 | 50 | 19 |
Dropped out: No. 22 Clark, No. 25 Williams.
Others receiving votes: Hanover 31; Amherst 23; Clark 21; William Paterson 13; Whitworth 12; Willamette 11; Williams 10; North Carolina Wesleyan 9; King's 6; Pitt-Bradford 6; Trinity (Conn.) 5; Western Connecticut 4; Wooster 3; York (Pa.) 3; Augustana 2; Keene State 2; McMurry 2; Alvernia 1; Trinity (Texas) 1.