Through games of Jan. 4, 2004:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | UW-Stevens Point (13) | 12-0 | 603 | 3 |
| 2 | Rochester (10) | 8-0 | 602 | 2 |
| 3 | Bowdoin (2) | 7-0 | 579 | 4 |
| 4 | Scranton | 8-0 | 528 | 5 |
| 5 | Trinity (Texas) | 9-1 | 510 | 1 |
| 6 | Southern Maine | 8-1 | 493 | 7 |
| 7 | Eastern Connecticut | 7-1 | 474 | 8 |
| 8 | Washington U. | 9-1 | 453 | 9 |
| 9 | Baldwin-Wallace | 11-0 | 422 | 12 |
| 10 | Marymount | 10-1 | 347 | 6 |
| 11 | UW-Eau Claire | 10-2 | 326 | 10 |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins | 7-1 | 325 | 15 |
| 13 | St. John Fisher | 6-0 | 280 | 14 |
| 14 | Gustavus Adolphus | 7-1 | 236 | 11 |
| 15 | Hope | 11-1 | 232 | 13 |
| 16 | Messiah | 8-1 | 229 | 17 |
| 17 | Carleton | 9-0 | 215 | 21 |
| 18 | Hardin-Simmons | 8-1 | 206 | 20 |
| 19 | New York University | 8-0 | 176 | 22 |
| 20 | Wesleyan | 8-0 | 146 | 23 |
| 21 | DePauw | 9-2 | 127 | 19 |
| 22 | St. Benedict | 8-1 | 110 | 16 |
| 23 | Emmanuel | 7-1 | 79 | — |
| 24 | UW-Oshkosh | 9-2 | 77 | 18 |
| 25 | Whitworth | 8-1 | 76 | — |
Dropped out: No. 24 King's; No. 25 Ithaca
Others receiving votes: King's 69, Muhlenberg 36,
McMurry 31, DeSales 27, Lebanon Valley 24, Millikin 24, Pacific
Lutheran 15, Ithaca 8, Gwynedd-Mercy 7, Buena Vista 6, York (Pa.)
6, Pitt-Greensburg 5, Kean 4, Otterbein 3, Wilmington 2, Williams
2, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 1, Mississippi College 1, Montclair State
1, RPI 1, Thomas More 1.
The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.