Through games of Dec. 8, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last |
| 1 | Washington U. (23) | 7-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Rochester (2) | 7-0 | 586 | 2 |
| 3 | Catholic | 7-0 | 556 | 4 |
| 4 | Randolph-Macon | 5-0 | 552 | 5 |
| 5 | Hampden-Sydney | 5-0 | 515 | 6 |
| 6 | UW-Stevens Point | 5-0 | 455 | 11 |
| 7 | Carthage | 4-1 | 439 | 8 |
| 8 | Williams | 5-0 | 434 | 10 |
| 9 | Amherst | 6-0 | 412 | 12 |
| 10 | UW-Oshkosh | 5-1 | 392 | 3 |
| 11 | Hope | 6-1 | 342 | 9 |
| 12 | Capital | 4-2 | 341 | 7 |
| 13 | Hanover | 7-0 | 291 | 16 |
| 14 | Wooster | 6-0 | 279 | 20 |
| 15 | Gustavus Adolphus | 4-0 | 261 | 21 |
| 16 | UW-Whitewater | 4-1 | 219 | 18 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 6-1 | 186 | — |
| 18 | Wartburg | 4-1 | 160 | 17 |
| 19 | Babson | 5-0 | 142 | — |
| 20 | Whitworth | 7-0 | 135 | — |
| 21 | Illinois Wesleyan | 3-2 | 95 | 14 |
| 22 | St. Thomas | 2-2 | 93 | 13 |
| 23 | Otterbein | 4-2 | 73 | 23 |
| 24 | Ramapo | 5-0 | 72 | — |
| 25 | Franklin & Marshall | 4-1 | 59 | — |
Dropped out: No. 19 Wittenberg, No. 22 Christopher Newport, No. 24 Buena Vista, No. 25 Savannah Art and Design.
Others receiving votes: Rockford 57; Wittenberg 55; UW-River Falls 45; Elizabethtown 44; UW-Eau Claire 34; Buena Vista 28; Christopher Newport 28; Lewis & Clark 25; Ripon 18; Emory 15; Montclair State 15; North Carolina Wesleyan 11; Calvin 8; Keene State 8; DePauw 6; Clark 4; Augustana 3; Savannah Art and Design 3; Shenandoah 3; Mary Washington 1; Sul Ross State 1; Wabash 1.