Through end of 2001-02 season:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last |
| 1 | UW-Stevens Point (25) | 30-3 | 625 | 9 |
| 2 | St. Lawrence | 28-4 | 586 | 17 |
| 3 | Washington U. | 25-1 | 571 | 1 |
| 4 | DePauw | 26-4 | 529 | 13 |
| 5 | Wilmington | 28-2 | 505 | 3 |
| 6 | Bowdoin | 26-2 | 486 | 2 |
| 7 | Hope | 27-3 | 430 | 4 |
| 8 | King's | 25-4 | 399 | 14 |
| 9 | Marymount | 24-8 | 397 | — |
| 10 | Scranton | 25-5 | 321 | 12 |
| 11 | UW-Stout | 23-5 | 300 | 8 |
| 12 | Pacific Lutheran | 23-4 | 298 | 18 |
| 13 | Hardin-Simmons | 26-2 | 285 | 5 |
| 14 | St. Benedict | 24-5 | 257 | 16 |
| 15 | Eastern Connecticut | 26-3 | 253 | 7 |
| 16 | Webster | 25-3 | 233 | 19 |
| 17 | Emmanuel | 27-3 | 221 | 11 |
| 18 | Messiah | 23-4 | 218 | 10 |
| 19 | Southern Maine | 25-3 | 209 | 6 |
| 20 | Carleton | 24-6 | 186 | 15 |
| 21 | Springfield | 25-4 | 169 | 21 |
| 22 | Ohio Wesleyan | 21-8 | 128 | — |
| 23 | Chapman | 23-5 | 109 | — |
| 24 | Salisbury | 24-5 | 105 | 20 |
| 25 | St. Thomas | 21-5 | 66 | 23 |
Dropped out: No. 22 Muhlenberg; No. 24 Lebanon Valley; No. 25 Case Western Reserve.
Others receiving votes: Case Western Reserve 45; Lebanon Valley 40; Muhlenberg 28; Guilford 22; Ithaca 22; Christopher Newport 19; Lakeland 17; Wheaton (Ill.) 11; Middlebury 10; Wartburg 8; DeSales 5; Baldwin-Wallace 4; UW-Oshkosh 4; Anderson 1; Centre 1; Franklin & Marshall 1; Western Maryland 1.