Through games of Dec. 15, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Prev |
| 1 | Washington U. (22) | 9-0 | 622 | 1 |
| 2 | Bowdoin (2) | 6-0 | 590 | 2 |
| 3 | Scranton | 6-0 | 538 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Benedict | 7-0 | 536 | 4 |
| 5 | Hardin-Simmons (1) | 5-0 | 520 | 5 |
| 6 | Baldwin-Wallace | 6-0 | 495 | 6 |
| 7 | Hope | 8-0 | 474 | 7 |
| 8 | DeSales | 7-0 | 472 | 8 |
| 9 | Carleton | 8-0 | 398 | 14 |
| 10 | UW-Eau Claire | 9-0 | 388 | 12 |
| 11 | King's | 5-1 | 365 | 10 |
| 12 | Rochester | 6-0 | 328 | 15 |
| 13 | Southern Maine | 7-1 | 272 | 18 |
| 14 | UW-Stout | 8-2 | 215 | 22 |
| 15 | UW-Stevens Point | 6-2 | 213 | 9 |
| 16 | Salisbury | 7-1 | 207 | 20 |
| 17 | Eastern Connecticut | 7-1 | 177 | 19 |
| 18 | Gustavus Adolphus | 7-0 | 173 | 23 |
| 19 | St. Lawrence | 4-1 | 137 | 11 |
| 20 | Wilmington | 4-2 | 130 | 16 |
| 21 | Whitworth | 6-2 | 126 | 21 |
| 22 | DePauw | 5-2 | 93 | 13 |
| 23 | Colby | 5-0 | 86 | — |
| 24 | Lebanon Valley | 5-1 | 77 | — |
| 25 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 6-1 | 73 | 17 |
Dropped out: No. 24 NYU; No. 25 New Jersey
Others receiving votes: Messiah 65; Johns Hopkins
54; Mt. St. Mary 49; St. John Fisher 48; Mt. St. Joseph 33;
UW-Oshkosh 32; Kean 28; Wesleyan 16; Ithaca 12; Christopher Newport
11; New Jersey 11; Case Western 10; Lake Forest 10; Simpson 9;
Nazareth 8; Bethany 7; Otterbein 6; NYU 6; George Fox 2; Muhlenberg
1; Hendrix 1; Catholic 1.