Through games of Sunday, March 2, 2003:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Eau Claire (13) | 27-1 | 608 | 1 |
| 2 | Hope (8) | 28-0 | 596 | 2 |
| 3 | Washington U. | 24-1 | 572 | 3 |
| 4 | Hardin-Simmons (4) | 26-0 | 562 | 4 |
| 5 | Wilmington | 25-2 | 514 | 6 |
| 6 | Carleton | 25-2 | 485 | 10 |
| 7 | Bowdoin | 24-2 | 477 | 8 |
| 8 | King's | 23-3 | 439 | 11 |
| 9 | Messiah | 25-2 | 394 | 13 |
| 10 | Gustavus Adolphus | 24-3 | 375 | 9 |
| 11 | DeSales | 24-3 | 368 | 7 |
| 12 | St. Benedict | 24-3 | 340 | 5 |
| 13 | Southern Maine | 25-3 | 315 | 14 |
| 14 | Rochester | 21-4 | 289 | 16 |
| 15 | St. Lawrence | 25-2 | 269 | 17 |
| 16 | Scranton | 22-4 | 263 | 12 |
| 17 | Baldwin-Wallace | 24-4 | 236 | 15 |
| 18 | St. John Fisher | 23-2 | 164 | 21 |
| 19 | UW-Stevens Point | 22-5 | 147 | 18 |
| 20 | Eastern Connecticut | 23-4 | 120 | 19 |
| 21 | Trinity (Texas) | 23-5 | 117 | — |
| 22 | UW-Oshkosh | 22-6 | 81 | 23 |
| 23 | DePauw | 22-5 | 76 | 20 |
| 24 | Mt. St. Mary | 25-2 | 73 | 25 |
| 25 | Wittenberg | 24-4 | 66 | — |
Dropped out: No. 22 Wesleyan, No 24 Ithaca
Others receiving votes: Washington &
Jefferson 56; St. Norbert 26; Ithaca 21; Emmanuel 17; Lake Forest
9; Pacific Lutheran 9; Loras 8; Wesleyan 8; Marymount 8;
Rutgers-Camden 8; Johns Hopkins 4; Salisbury 3; Bates 1; Salem
State 1.