Through games of Dec. 1, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Washington U. (19) | 5-0 | 610 | 1 |
| 2 | Rochester (2) | 5-0 | 573 | 3 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh | 4-0 | 538 | 4 |
| 4 | Catholic | 3-0 | 531 | 5 |
| 5 | Randolph-Macon | 3-0 | 510 | 6 |
| 6 | Hampden-Sydney | 2-0 | 475 | 7 |
| 7 | Capital (3) | 3-1 | 463 | 8 |
| 8 | Carthage | 1-1 | 426 | 2 |
| 9 | Hope | 4-0 | 423 | 12 |
| 10 | Williams (1) | 4-0 | 410 | 11 |
| 11 | UW-Stevens Point | 4-0 | 389 | 13 |
| 12 | Amherst | 3-0 | 308 | 19 |
| 13 | St. Thomas | 2-1 | 271 | 18 |
| 14 | Illinois Wesleyan | 3-0 | 244 | — |
| 15 | Elizabethtown | 2-1 | 212 | 9 |
| 16 | Hanover | 5-0 | 153 | — |
| 17 | Wartburg | 2-0 | 151 | — |
| 18 | UW-Whitewater | 2-1 | 139 | 17 |
| 19 | Wittenberg | 3-1 | 133 | 23 |
| 20 | Wooster | 4-0 | 129 | — |
| 21 | Gustavus Adolphus | 1-0 | 118 | — |
| 22 | Christopher Newport | 3-1 | 98 | 21 |
| 23 | Otterbein | 2-2 | 86 | 10 |
| 24 | Buena Vista | 4-0 | 81 | — |
| 25 | Savannah Art and Design | 3-0 | 76 | — |
Others receiving votes: Babson 73; Brockport State 73; Clark 73; Johns Hopkins 52; Mississippi College 49; Franklin & Marshall 37; Lewis & Clark 35; Whitworth 34; Wabash 25; Ramapo 24; North Carolina Wesleyan 23; Calvin 21; DePauw 16; Augustana 10; UW-River Falls 9; Ripon 8; Ohio Northern 4; UW-Eau Claire 4; Wheaton (Ill.) 3; King's 2; Mount Union 2; Grove City 1; Rockford 1.